Install Management Console

Resilio Management Console is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems.

Together with the Management Console a Management Console Agent is installed and launched on the same host. Its purpose is to ease environment configuration and remove the necessity to manually install an agent.

Prerequisites

Before installing Resilio Management Console, make sure you have:

A hardware platform that meets the minimum system requirements.
A valid Resilio Active Everywhere license. If you don’t have one yet, reach out to our sales team.
Note : If you want to evaluate our platform, contact our business team.
A download page URL. You should receive it along with your license. If you already have a license, reach out to our support team for the latest version available.
Firewall rules and port forwarding set up to allow traffic on a set of ports. For details, see Ports Protocols Port Forwarding.
Note : For the Windows' built-in firewall, the installer will automatically configure the necessary rules.

Install Management Console

To install Resilio Management Console:

Follow the installation procedure specific to your operating system:
Windows
1. Download, then launch the Management Console installer.
2. On the welcome page, click Next.
3. Enter the destination folder, then click Next.
4. (Optional) Customize your installation, then click Next.
  - Resilio Connect Server - The core service of the Resilio Active Everywhere solution.
  - Firewall exception - Rules in Windows Firewall allowing Resilio Active Everywhere to establish network connections.
  - Resilio Connect Agent - A Resilio Agent instance integrated with the Management Console.
  - File Locking driver - OS level driver that enables the file locking feature.
    Important: Installing the File Locking driver later, after the Management Console has been installed initially, is difficult. We highly recommend installing the locking driver with the Management Console if you plan on using file locking.
  - Resilio Connect Tracker - Resilio Active Everywhere Tracker service that assists in the communication between Resilio Agents. You can install the tracker along with the Management Console or have it installed independently.
5. Click Install to proceed.
6. Click Finish to close the installer.
Windows - CLI

To install Management Console using CLI, run the following command in the elevated Command Prompt. Be sure to use the proper msi installer name.
```
msiexec /i installer_name.msi /qn ADDLOCAL="ProductFeature,FirewallExceptionFeature,TrackerFeature,AgentFeature,FileLockingDriver"
```
Installer options:
- /qn - No UI interaction during the installation.
- ADDLOCAL - List of features you want to install:
  - ProductFeature - Management Console service.
  - TrackerFeature - Resilio Tracker service.
  - AgentFeature - Management Console Agent service (applicable to Resilio 4.2 and newer).
  - FileLockingDriver - File locking driver.
Linux - Tarball
1. Download, then extract the Management Console tarball archive:
```
tar zxf resilio-connect-server-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt
```
2. (Applicable to Resilio 3.6 and newer) Navigate to the unpacked directory and launch the update-or-install script to check if the necessary libraries are available:
```
/opt/resilio-connect-server/update-or-install
```
  If all the dependencies are present, the script will complete the installation and exit silently. If not, the script will exit with an error. Contact our support team to get help with the installation.
3. Start the Management Console service:
```
sudo /opt/resilio-connect-server/srvctrl start
```
Linux - Tarball + Daemon

By registering the Management Console (MC) as a daemon, administrators gain enhanced control over the MC through the systemctl command. This registration enables the automatic loading of MC during system startup, ensuring seamless integration into the system's operations. Furthermore, this daemonization facilitates an automatic failover mechanism, triggering an auto- restart in the event of a crash.
1. Create the rslconsole user and the rslconsole group:
```
$ sudo groupadd -r rslconsole  
$ sudo useradd -g rslconsole -r -m -s /sbin/nologin rslconsole
```
2. Download, then extract the Management Console tarball archive:
```
tar zxf resilio-connect-server-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt
```
3. Grant the rslconsole user the owner permission to the resilio-connect-server folder:
```
$ sudo chown -R rslconsole:rslconsole /opt/resilio-connect-server
```
4. Run the update-or-install migration script:
```
$ cd /opt/resilio-connect-server  
$ sudo -u rslconsole ./update-or-install
```
5. Create the systemd unit file for MC:
```
$ sudo touch /lib/systemd/system/resilio-connect-server.service
```
6. Insert the following content into the MC unit file:
```
[Unit]
Description=Resilio Connect Management Console service
Documentation=https://connect.resilio.com
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=rslconsole
Group=rslconsole
UMask=0002
Restart=on-failure
TimeoutSec=600
ExecStart=/opt/resilio-connect-server/srvctrl run
ExecStop=kill -s SIGTERM $MAINPID

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```
  Important : While the best practice is to use a separate user with limited permissions for every service, if necessary, you can run the service under root by including the following in the systemd unit file:
```
User=root  
Group=root
```
7. Reload the list of daemons:
```
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
```
8. Enable automatic startup of the Management Console service:
```
$ sudo systemctl enable resilio-connect-server
```
9. Start the Management Console service:
```
$ sudo systemctl start resilio-connect-server
```
Linux - DEB
1. Download the .deb package, then run the following command:
```
sudo dpkg -i resilio-connect-management-console_<version>_<architecture>.deb
```
  Note
  
  In Resilio 4.2.1 and newer, the package is named resilio-connect-server-amd64.deb.
2. Enable automatic startup of the Management Console service:
```
sudo systemctl enable resilio-connect-management-console
```
3. Start the Management Console service:
```
sudo systemctl start resilio-connect-management-console
```
4. (Optional) Run the Management Console service as the current user.
  By default, the service will run as default user rslconsole. On some distributions, systemd starts the package automatically after the installation.
  - Check the service's status, and if it's running, stop it:
    
    sudo systemctl stop resilio-connect-management-console
  - Start the service as the current user:
    
    sudo systemctl --user start resilio-connect-management-console
Linux - RPM
1. Download the .rpm package, then run the following command:
```
sudo yum install resilio-connect-management-console-<version>_<architecture>.rpm
```
  Note
  
  In Resilio 4.2.1 and newer, the package is named resilio-connect-server-x86_64.rpm.
2. Start the Management Console service:
```
sudo systemctl start resilio-connect-management-console
```
3. Start the Management Console service:
```
sudo systemctl start resilio-connect-management-console
```
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.
Enter your email address, provide a password, agree to our Terms of Use, EULA and Privacy Policy, then click Continue to set up your administrator account.
Click Upload a new license , and browse the filesystem to locate your Active Everywhere license.
Review your license details, then click Next.
Select your Management Console instance to assign one of the Agent license to it, then click Apply.