Understanding ShadowControl

Welcome to ShadowControl®—the central monitoring, management, and reporting console for the Arcserve Recovery solution.

ShadowControl is built on the Pub-Sub (publish-subscribe) pattern, which has two main components:

• ShadowControl Appliance (publisher): A Linux-based server running as a VM or on dedicated hardware. It receives and collates status information from each agent-equipped EndPoint and provides a centralized console for monitoring and managing the EndPoint's ShadowProtect and ImageManager activities.
• ShadowControl Agent (subscriber): An agent installed at each EndPoint. The ShadowControl agent sends status information to the ShadowControl appliance and queries the appliance regularly for tasks that it should perform.

ShadowControl consists of EndPoints running the ShadowControl agent and an appliance which monitors those EndPoints.

Administrators use the appliance's browser-based console to:

• Install and activate the ShadowControl EndPoint agent, ShadowProtect, and ImageManager software on selected EndPoints.
• Configure EndPoint status rules and alert settings.
• Configure SPX backup job policies.
• Monitor ShadowProtect and ImageManager status for subscribed EndPoints.

The appliance keeps a rolling 90-day log of EndPoint activity information for reporting purposes while each EndPoint maintains its own log. ShadowControl provides an appliance backup function to preserve and restore the system history log and system configuration In the event of an appliance failure.