Components

Acronis Snap Deploy 5 includes the following components:

Components for Windows

These are components that are installed on machines running Windows and provide Acronis Snap Deploy 5 infrastructure.

• Management Console is an administrative tool for remote access to Acronis servers and Management Agent.

  When disconnected from the Acronis components, the console allows only for the installation of product components on remote machines and for the creation of bootable media.

• OS Deploy Server (the deployment server) is a component that performs centralized hardware-independent deployment through the network with the help of agents.
• Management Agent takes an image of a machine running Windows or enables OS Deploy Server to start deployment on this machine while the operating system is running.
• Acronis PXE Server allows booting machines over the network into Agent, Master Image Creator, or Windows Preinstallation Environment. The machines must support PXE. Using Acronis PXE Server considerably reduces the time required for booting multiple machines as compared to using bootable media. It also eliminates the need to have a technician onsite to install the bootable media into the system that must be booted.
• Acronis Wake-on-LAN Proxy is a component that enables OS Deploy Server to wake up the target machines located in another subnet.
• License Server is a component that tracks licenses of Acronis products.

Bootable components

These are components that are available in the Acronis environment or Windows Preinstallation Environment. A machine must boot into the corresponding component when you need to perform imaging or deployment.

• Agent is a bootable component that performs deployment to a target machine under the control of OS Deploy Server.

  There are two ways to load an agent on target machines: locally from bootable media or remotely by using Acronis PXE Server.

• Master Image Creator is a bootable, locally controlled component that creates an image of the master system.

  There are two ways to load Master Image Creator on a master machine: directly from bootable media or remotely by using Acronis PXE Server.

• Standalone Utility is a bootable component that enables fully-functional deployment with a GUI on a stand-alone machine (a machine isolated from the network or included in a network without Acronis Snap Deploy 5 infrastructure).
• Acronis System Report is a bootable component that collects information about the machine and saves this information to a locally-attached USB drive.

  There are two ways to load Acronis System Report: directly from an Acronis bootable media or remotely by using Acronis PXE Server.