Central Management

The Central Management Option allows you to manage one or more Arcserve servers through a single central system. Within an Arcserve domain, this central system is called the primary server and the other (subordinate) servers are called member servers.

Primary Server

A primary server provides you with a single point to manage the primary server and one or multiple member servers in an Arcserve domain. From the primary server you can centrally manage and monitor jobs that run locally on that primary server and jobs that run remotely on one or more of the member servers in the domain. There can be only one primary server within an Arcserve domain.

Note: You can designate any Arcserve Backup server as the primary server. However, because the primary server is responsible for managing and initializing the shared member servers, you should use your most reliable server as the primary server.

Member Server

A member server executes jobs that are dispatched from the primary server. Within an Arcserve domain, member servers can only belong to one primary server.

Arcserve Domain

The Arcserve database (ASDB) can be installed on a primary server or on any remote system in your environment. Be aware that to install the ASDB on a remote system, you must host the ASDB instance using Microsoft SQL Server.

The primary and member servers may or may not be connected through a Storage Area Network (SAN). If the member servers are located on a SAN, the primary server must also be on the SAN.

Note: A SAN environment within an Arcserve domain is an environment where multiple Arcserve servers can share one or more devices (for example, tape libraries).

This section contains the following topics:

• Central Job Management
• Central Job Monitoring
• Central Database Management
• Central Logging
• Central Reporting
• Central Alert Management
• Central Arcserve Server Administration
• Central Device Management
• Central License Management
• Central Job History
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