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

Windows

To install Resilio Management Console on Windows:

Download, then launch the Management Console installer.
On the welcome page, click Next.
Enter the destination folder, then click Next.
(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.

Click Install to proceed.
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

To install Resilio Management Console on Linux from a tarball archive:

Download, then extract the Management Console tarball archive:
```
sudo tar zxf resilio-connect-server-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt
```
Ubuntu 25.10

On Ubuntu 25.10, run tar --no-same-owner -xvf resilio-connect-server-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt to extract the archive without preserving user information, or change the archive's owner to root. Otherwise, the update-or-install script will fail.

Launch the update-or-install script to check if the necessary libraries are available and to complete the installation:

sudo /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.

Ubuntu 25.10

If the script fails to run, change the owner of the /opt/resilio-connect-server/ folder and its contents to the root user: sudo chown -R root /opt/resilio-connect-server.

vboxuser@ubuntu-25-10:/opt/resilio-connect-server$ sudo ./update-or-install
Created ./server/check.js
require("./lib/diskusage");
require("./lib/drivelist");
require("./lib/ed25519");
require("./lib/fs-ext");
require("./lib/node_sqlite3");
require("./lib/openssl");
console.log("good");
Checking prerequisites... [OK]
Checking permissions... Failed to modify existing installation.
Please ensure you have enough permissions to write new files and retry.
Installation failed.

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.

Create the rslconsole user and the rslconsole group:

$ sudo groupadd -r rslconsole  
$ sudo useradd -g rslconsole -r -m -s /sbin/nologin rslconsole

Download, then extract the Management Console tarball archive:

sudo tar zxf resilio-connect-server-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt

Grant the rslconsole user the owner permission to the resilio-connect-server folder:
```
$ sudo chown -R rslconsole:rslconsole /opt/resilio-connect-server
```

Run the update-or-install script:

$ cd /opt/resilio-connect-server  
$ sudo -u rslconsole ./update-or-install

Create the systemd unit file for MC:

$ sudo touch /lib/systemd/system/resilio-connect-server.service

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

Reload the list of daemons:
```
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
```
Enable automatic startup of the Management Console service:
```
$ sudo systemctl enable resilio-connect-server
```

Start the Management Console service:

$ sudo systemctl start resilio-connect-server

Linux - DEB

To install Resilio Management Console Linux from a DEB package:

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.
Enable automatic startup of the Management Console service:
```
sudo systemctl enable resilio-connect-management-console
```

Start the Management Console service:

sudo systemctl start resilio-connect-management-console

Tip

By default, the Management Console service runs under the rslconsole user. You can configure it to run under the current user or a different account. For details, see Run the Management Console service as a different user.

Linux - RPM

To install Resilio Management Console Linux from an RPM package:

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.

Start the Management Console service:

sudo systemctl start resilio-connect-management-console

Start the Management Console service:

sudo systemctl start resilio-connect-management-console

Tip

By default, the Management Console service runs under the rslconsole user. You can configure it to run under the current user or a different account. For details, see Run the Management Console service as a different user.

Initial setup

To start using your Resilio Active Everywhere, create an administrator account and upload your license:

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.