Acronis Backup Cloud: mass update of Acronis Agents

Scenario

Using Acronis web console, you can update Acronis Agent on a remote machine or on up to 10 remote machines in one step.

If you need to update Acronis Agents on a large number of machines or/and do not want to use the web interface, use the script provided in this article.

Solution

The mass update script runs recursively through the hierarchy under the specified partner/customer/unit group, lists installed agents and

• updates agents marked for update (if "justreporting" option is not used)
• collects information about installed agents to ".csv" report file (if "justreporting" option is used)

Prerequisites

1. Install Python 3.6 or newer ( https://www.python.org/downloads/ )
2. Install requests module for Rest API call:
   python -m pip install requests

Usage

1. Download the script .
2. Open Command Prompt.
3. Navigate to the folder where you have downloaded the script. Use the cd command.
4. Run the script:
   python agent_update.py --username <username> --password <password> --hostname <hostname> --group <group ID> --justreport

Shor form	Long form	Required/Optional	Value passed	Description
-u	--username	required	USERNAME of the authorized account (Partner administrator)
-p	--password	required	PASSWORD for the authorized account (Partner administrator)
-hn	--hostname	optional	HOSTNAME of the DC where authorized account is located	May be omitted if account is located at Acronis DC
-g	--group	optional	GROUPID, id of the group to be processed (partner/customer/unit)	May be omitted, home group of the authorized account will be used as an entry point
-jr	--justreport	optional	<empty>, no value is passed	Information about all installed agents and their version will be collected and stored to CSV report file; no update sequence will be initiated
-h	--help			Manual

Limitations: script does not update agent on offline machines. If amount of agents to update is large (>100), the script pauses for 1 hour after each 100 updated agents.