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Administration Console

Overview

CrashPlan PRO Server's administration console (also known as “admin console”) has a number of features that help you administer your backup, including:

  • Adding and managing storage
  • Viewing server status
  • Obtaining reports and alerts
  • Customizing reports and alerts

Use this same console to manage users, computers and organizations. These features allow you to control, manage and enforce:

  • What files and folders are being backed up
  • Who can back up and restore
  • Where backups are stored
  • How backup takes place: timing, security
  • What users can do, view and change
  • Retention policies

From the admin console you can also:

  • Deactivate users and computers
  • Migrate archives
  • Reset passwords
  • Manage seat and support licenses

Site and Client Management

CrashPlan PRO provides a couple of ways to help you efficiently manage default settings and configuration information.

  • Default client and user settings allow you specify settings that effect the settings that users see by default when they clients sign in to CrashPlan PRO
  • Inheritance enables the administrator to efficiently pass down global settings and configuration information from the server level down to organizations, child organizations through to individual users and their computers.

Benefits

CrashPlan PRO console features provide the following benefits:

  • Centralized control for servers, organizations, users and computers from a single location
  • Central administration console allows you to expand storage and manage backup destinations
  • At-a-glance status reports provide information about server status so that you can manage your resources
  • Reports and alerts inform you of critical situations that need your attention so that you can respond quickly
  • Customizable reports and alert message enable you to edit standard text to reflect the common terms and usage that your organization understands

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Examples

Reference Articles

feature/backup_administration.txt · Last modified: 2010/05/12 15:18 by mswanson