Method 2: Activate Sophos on the Arcserve Appliance using script

This section provides information about how to activate Sophos on the Arcserve Appliance using the script Customer_Boot.ps1.

Follow these steps:

  1. To log into the Sophos Central page, go to https://cloud.sophos.com using your email address and password.
  2. Note: If you have multiple email addresses associated with different Arcserve Appliance Sophos customer accounts, select a desired email address to use its corresponding account to activate Sophos.
  3. Navigate to the Protection Devices page, under Server Protection, click the Show Command Line link.
  5. Copy the mcstoken and management server information.
  6. Log into the Arcserve Appliance system as an administrator.
  7. Open the command prompt and enter the folder location “C:\Program Files\Arcserve\Appliance\Sophos\Customer_Boot”
  8. #cd “C:\Program Files\Arcserve\Appliance\Sophos\Customer_Boot”
  9. Run Customer_Boot.ps1
  10. #powershell .\Customer_Boot.ps1
  11. Enter the MCS token and management server values based on the command line prompt, and then wait for the command execution to complete.
  12. To view the protected Arcserve Appliance, log into the Sophos Central page, and then navigate to Devices > Servers.
  14. Sophos is activated on the Appliance.