Managing licenses

An Acronis Cyber Protect license is required for every protected workload. A license is not required to install Acronis Cyber Protect.

Licenses that you buy are added to your account in Acronis Customer Portal (https://account.acronis.com).

For new customers, Acronis Customer portal is part of the cloud console. These customers are redirected to the cloud console when they log in to their account at https://account.acronis.com.

You allocate the licenses to one or more management servers in your environment. Then, the management server distributes the license quota to the workloads that are registered on that server.

A license is automatically assigned when you apply a protection plan to a workload for the first time. If more than one license is available, the most appropriate license is assigned automatically. For example, a workload might be assigned an Acronis Cyber Protect Advanced – Server license, while another workload might take an Acronis Cyber Protect Standard. The automatic assignment depends on the workload's type, operating system, and required level of protection.

The table below summarizes the available operations and shows where to perform them.

Operation	Location
Adding licenses to your account	You can add licenses in Acronis Customer Portal. Licenses that you purchased online are automatically added there.
Activating a management server	You can activate a management server by registering it in your account. You can activate online management servers in their local console (https://<IP>:<port>), by signing in to your Acronis account. For this operation, you must use both the cloud and the local consoles. To access the cloud console, you need a second machine that is connected to the Internet.
Allocating licenses to a management server Modifying an existing license allocation	On online management servers, you can allocate licenses by using the cloud console (https://cloud.acronis.com). The allocated licenses are automatically synced to the management server. On offline management servers, you can allocate licenses through an activation file. This procedure requires that you use both the local console of the management server (https://<IP>:<port>) and the cloud console (https://cloud.acronis.com).
Assigning licenses to workloads	This operation is automatic, but you can manually change the assignment.
Unregistering a management server from your account	You can unregister online management servers by using the cloud console (https://cloud.acronis.com). You can unregister offline management servers through a deactivation file. This procedure requires that you use both the local console of the offline management server (https://<IP>:<port>) and the cloud console (https://cloud.acronis.com). To unregister an offline management server to which you do not have access, you must use only the cloud console.