Client and server applications

There are two stakeholders of the secure communication process:

• Client application, or client, is an application that tries to establish connection.
• Server application, or server, is an application to which the client tries to connect.

For example, if Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Console is connecting to Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent on a remote machine, the former is the client and the latter is the server.

An Acronis component can act as a client application, a server application, or both, as shown in the following table.