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Resilio Active Everywhere enables fast and reliable data synchronization across multiple endpoints. Set up a simple Synchronization job to facilitate collaboration between a few users, or deploy a file caching solution to ensure high-speed, low latency access for hundreds of users in different locations.

Set up Resilio Management Console

Resilio Management Console is a central interface for setting up agents, configuring sync and transfer jobs, and monitoring your job runs.

Prerequisites

  • Resilio Active Everywhere license. If you don’t have one yet, reach out to our sales team.
  • A URL to the download page. You should receive it along with your license.
  • Firewall rules and port forwarding set up to allow traffic on a set of ports. For details, see Ports protocols & ports forwarding required by Resilio Connect.

To set up Resilio Management Console:

  1. Open a web browser and navigate to the download page.
  2. In the Management Console section, download the installer specific to your operating system.
  3. Install the Management Console. For details, see Management Console installation – Resilio Active Everywhere.
  4. In a web browser, navigate to your Management Console interface, running on port 8443. For example, https://some-dns-name.com:8443, or https://10.0.0.2:8443.
  5. Enter your email address, provide a password, agree to our Terms of Use, EULA and Privacy Policy, then click Continue to set up your admin account.
  6. Click Upload a new license, and browse the filesystem to locate your Active Everywhere license.
  7. Review your license details, then click Next.
  8. Select your Management Console instance to assign one of the Agent license to it, then click Apply.

Deploy Resilio Agents

Agents are lightweight applications that run on end users’ workstations or storage servers. Altogether, they comprise a multipoint-to-multipoint network that enables efficient transfer of large data sets.

To deploy an agent:

  1. Open a web browser and navigate to the download page.
  2. In the Desktop & Server Agent section, locate and download an installer for an operating system of your choice.
  3. Install and set up agents. For details, see Install Agent.
  4. In the Management Console, from the top menu, select Agents and click the AGENT PENDING APPROVAL notification.
  5. Select agents you want to add, then click Approve.

Set up sync and transfer jobs

Jobs define source and target agents along with configuration parameters specific to a job type. Choose a job type that matches your use case and keep your files in sync across your entire organization.

Set up a job tailored to your specific use case:

  • Synchronization - Synchronize data across multiple systems, ensure identical file copies are consistently available on each endpoint.
  • Distribution - Transfer data from a centralized storage to remote locations. Run transfer jobs manually or set up scheduled runs.
  • Consolidation - Transfer data from multiple locations to centralized storage for data collection or backup.
  • File Caching - Deploy local caching gateways to ensure high-speed, low-latency access to large data sets accessed by hundreds of users across multiple locations.
  • Hybrid Work - Enable collaboration in distributed teams. Ensure consistent access to the latest copy of data both on-site and remotely.
  • Storage tiering and Archival job - Implement automated data movement between storage tiers.
  • Run Script Job - Execute OS-level scripts on remote Agents. Run Script Jobs can be launched manually or initialized automatically based on a predefined schedule.

Monitor your Resilio Active Everywhere deployment

  • Monitor overall system status
    From the top menu, select Overview to access all time data transfer statistics, jobs and agents information and summaries along with the data transfer charts. For more information, see Dashboard - Performance Monitor.
  • Monitor select jobs
    From the top menu, select Jobs, then locate and click a job run that you want to view in detail. 
  • Manage error messages
    In certain scenarios, Resilio may report errors despite being fully operational and successfully completing all job runs. To maintain a clearer job status overview, you have the option to disable the reporting of specific errors.
  • Set up bandwidth policy
    Create a schedule and limit bandwidth utilization depending on the time of the day.
  • Analyze job runs
    You can query job runs when troubleshooting, to determine if a specific file has been transferred successfully or not. For details, see File query in a job run.

Enhance Resilio Platform's security

Resilio has a number of security measures built in. To further secure your deployment, see Privacy and Security.

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