ADS setup

There are no stupid questions

you can use this installation. It's not demo but full funconality Avamar version which works fine without license (30 days)

ftp://avamar_ftp:anonymous@ftp.avamar.com/software/5.0.2/v5.0.2.41-customer_unified-v5.0.105.169.tar.gzanonymous@ftp.avamar.com/software/5.0.2/v5.0.2.41-customer_unified-v5.0.105.169.tar.gz

regards,

Thanks for your reply! Already started to download.

But what about passwords? Why do they say in docs to use root, admin, etc accounts during install but do not specify default passwords. In case of use ADS OS is already preinstalled. How do I know passwords? I've studied installation guides for several versions of avamar and didn't found an info. Should I know this information from any ather source? In this case password "changeme" works for root, but this just goo guess.

There are different accounts in Avamar world .
for example:  root, admin, dpn

for dpn and admin you use su as root (su - admin), then load the keys ...
  # ssh-agent bash
  # ssh-add ~admin/.ssh/admin_key

you will find it in documentation ... admin guide ...

there is also account with different pwl for replication or "viewuser" to make some sql custom queries ...

Download the security guide from Powerlink Documents for Avamar.(Or search for 300-008-816 in powerlink). It has default passwords.

Hi,

I am currently downloading v5.0.2.41-customer_unified-v5.0.105.169.tar.gz. I have gone through 1.29GB and still downloading. Is it almost done? How big is this file???? Can I get it on DVDV from EMC offices here? Nyembe

Hi,

The size of v5.0.2.41-customer_unified-v5.0.105.169.tar.gz is 2.96GB.

I managed to download the files I needed 1.8GB and 1.3GB which need to be merged. I copied the files to the Avamar Node and when a try to merge them into 1 tarball which is needed, I get this message. Anyone with some suggestions on the way forward. I would really appreciate you help.

[root@sacr-avamar ~]#
[root@sacr-avamar ~]# cd /emctmp/tarball
[root@sacr-avamar tarball]# cat v5.0.2.41-customer_unified-v5.0.105.169.part0*.bin > v5.0.2.41-customer_unified-v5.0.105.169.tar.gz
cat: write error: No space left on device
[root@sacr-avamar tarball]# cd /usr/local/avamar/src

Thanks in advance

Nyembe

Hi Nyembe,

I guess the path you are using (/emctmp/tarball) is under your root partition which does not have so much space.

Please move the files to /usr/local/avamar/src/ and try again.

Hope this would be helpful.

Regards,

Sean Xu

Hi,

The other link / URL I need for this Gen3 Avamar Node is for the following:-

Gen1 & Gen2 (rhel4u6)    cd software/ADS_GEN2-files/mget *                         For all Dell Specific file downloads

                         Files needed

•              ESM_FRMW_LX_R149431.BIN
•              dkms-2.0.13-1.noarch.rpm
•              RAC_FRMW_LX_R175502.BIN
•              megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.16-1.noarch.rpm
•              PE2950_BIOS_LX_2.2.6.BIN
•              FRMW_LX_R169302.BIN
•              RAID_FRMW_LX_R201071.BIN
•              OM_5.4.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz
•              gsan

Thanks again for your continued support...

rgds

nyembe

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I checked the partitions and I moved the files to a partition with more space. I merged the files into a tarball and now I get an error  message. I have another EMC ADS Gen2 Node which I want to use instead. Where can I get the ISO file for the OS Linux

(avamar-kickstart-rhel4u6-64-VERSION.iso). I would want to use this 1TB node for this.

1.Rekickstart the Node

2. Install Avamar Software

3. Configure the Avamar Singel Node

4. Configure MC and Clients and run sample backups

This is in readiness for th POC for a cusotmer this week. Thanks for your and the links to the downloads. Nyembe

Sorry I meant Gen2 in the earlier posting!!

Thanks all for helping with the earlier issues. I have an EMC Avamar ADS Gen2 1TB Node which I kickstarted and that went well. I installed the mandatory software and again this went without a glitch. I am now at the stage of installing avqinstall (page 63 on the manual). I tried both the following commands but still get the error message below.

COMMANDS

root@sacr-avamar:/usr/local/avamar/src/#: avqinstall

root@sacr-avamar:/usr/local/avamar/src/#: avqinstall --noconnectemc

ERROR

[avqinstall v5.0.0-38]
avqinstall: INFO: logging to     "/usr/local/avamar/var/log/avqinstall.log"
avqinstall: ERROR: cannot install Avamar server software on         unsupported node type "supernode"
*** For details please see the log file:     "/usr/local/avamar/var/log/avqinstall.log"
root@sacr-avamar:/usr/local/avamar/src/#:

Any help is greatly appreciated.

rgds

Nyembe

Hi,

Thanks. It worked. Now I have a problem with the following when I try and run the avqinstall I get this message

root@sacr-avamar:/usr/local/avamar/src/#: avqinstall --noconnectemc                         
[avqinstall v5.0.0-38]
avqinstall: INFO: logging to "/usr/local/avamar/var/log/avqinstall.log"
avqinstall: ERROR: no server tarball found matching Avamar naming convention vVERSION-customer*.tar.gz in /usr/local/avamar/src
*** For details please see the log file: "/usr/local/avamar/var/log/avqinstall.log"
root@sacr-avamar:/usr/local/avamar/src/#: ls
backup_changenodetype.tar  config_info.bak     dt.c         dt_rand.h      overflow_remote_dpe.pl  v5.0.41-customer_unified-v5.0.105.169.tar.gz
change_nodetype            cps.c               dt.makefile  dt_standard.h  RHEL4_64
config_info                create_newconfigs-  dt_rand.c    Makefile.cps   rpms
root@sacr-avamar:/usr/local/avamar/src/#:

Please advice on the next steps. Thanks in advance.

Please change the node type using the below command

/usr/local/avamar/src/change_nodetype --utility

Regards

Amol Powar