What is ActiveVisor™？

ActiveVisor™ manages and monitors the state of ActiveImage Protector™ agents for system administrators to maintain system continuity. By collecting information from distributed agents over the network, ActiveVisor™ provides a visual representation of overall system protection, sends email notifications of client backup status, monitors storage space availability of devices, and can administer deployment of agents, schedules, and tasks. System administrators save time, and reduce costs by managing ActiveImage Protector™ agent settings providing peace of mind that continuous and reliable backups are performed. ActiveVisor is provided at no additional charge to ActiveImage Protector™ users who have valid annual support service contracts. ActiveVisor™ is provided at no additional charge to ActiveImage Protector™ users who have valid annual maintenance contracts. ActiveVisor™ is provided at no additional charge to ActiveImage Protector™ users who have valid annual maintenance contracts.

Advantages of ActiveVisor™

  • System administrators can save time by managing backup source machine settings from a single console.
  • Administrators can manage the client machines from any location by using the browser-based console.
  • In the event of a system failure, ActiveVisor™ is built with a simplified user interface that displays a table with information on machine specific failures so that system recovery can be initiated immediately.
  • When an unexpected delay in the backup task occurs, the console displays an easy-to-understand metric of backup status.

What’s new in ActiveVisor™ ver. 8

  • Manage Backup Storage:ActiveVisor enables users to choose post-backup actions, including checking the bootability of image files, verifying backup integrity, and consolidating backups.
  • Improved Authentication and Enhanced Security:Users must input a passphrase to access new managed client PCs. Passphrase entry is also mandatory when making changes to client PCs or performing push installations to prevent unauthorized access.
  • Enhanced User-Friendly GUI Interface:ActiveVisor’s interface is designed with the user in mind. It presents managed objects clearly and organized at the top of the console window
  • List View of Standby Machines and Hypervisors:ActiveVisor now provides a list view of standby machines and hypervisors, enabling users to monitor their status and location.
  • Graphical Dashboard

    Graphical Dashboard

    The dashboard window provides a graphical representation of computers on the network, ActiveImage Protector’s client machines, and visually draws attention to the status of task execution.

  • Managed Client Grouping

    Managed Client Grouping

    Clients can be grouped for management purposes. Groups can be rearranged, if necessary, based on changes to a systems configuration.

  • Detailed and Flexible Scheduling

    Detailed and Flexible Scheduling

    Schedules may be configured based on individual client requirements, or apply a predefined scheduled template to deploy a pattern-based backup schedule to groups of clients.

  • Monitor client status

    Monitor client status

    ActiveVisor™ provides a monitoring feature enabling you to monitor the backup status, task execution and client status. Using the monitoring panel separate from ActiveVisor™console displays a list of the target clients for constant monitoring of the latest changes occurring on the clients.

  • Collect log information

    Collect log information

    By regularly collecting information from distributed agents on client machines over the network, ActiveVisor™ displays task execution logs for managed clients, and provides pre-emptive information such as insufficient space for storage management.

  • Creating templates for Agentless backup

    Creating templates for Agentless backup

    The Template Wizard guides you through creating ActiveImage Protector™ Agentless (HyperAgent™) backup templates. This streamlines the backup setting process by deploying the created backup templates with the configured settings to the selected virtual machines.

  • Deploy templates to client PCs

    Deploy templates to client PCs

    Create Backup Task, Schedule, vStandby and Client Settings Templates for deployment to the managed clients individually or in a batch to a number of selected clients at once. I

  • Push Install

    Push Install

    The Push Installer locates unmanaged machines in the domain or workgroup and remotely pushes ActiveImage Protector™ to the unmanaged client machine. Push installing ActiveImage Protector™ software patches and updates to client machine are also available.

  • Visual Alert

    Visual Alert

    In the event of a system failure, ActiveVisor™ provides table views illustrating where the failure occurred, so the affected system can be recovered quickly.

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