Avamar 7.1 Administrator doesn't remember server name

On Windows, the GUI preferences are stored in %userprofile%\.avamardata\var\mc\gui_data\prefs\mcclient.xml. I'd recommend checking the permissions and ownership of this file.

Karl,

I apologize if my initial post wasn't clear.  What you describe is exactly what I am doing, but once I close the Administrator session and then open a new one, the Administrator Server field reverts to "dpnmcs".  When I click on Options again to set the Default Administrator Server, it too says "dpnmcs" even though the previous time I put the name "doc-hqbk01" in the Default Administrator Server field and clicked OK.  It does this every time; it's like it doesn't remember what I put in the Default field past that one launch of the Administrator.  Hopefully this makes more sense now.

Thank you,

Waide

I don't know, but you might find this tool useful.

Here is the URL for the AvOpener.jar file:

ftp://avamar_ftp:anonymous@ftp.avamar.com/software/scripts/AvOpener.jar

You can put this .jar file on your desktop and use it to open the proper MCS Console GUI as long as it is installed on their local PC. This is very useful if you have multiple Avamar Servers running different versions with different GUI versions.

It also has the ability to remember favorites, so you can customize it to save the names of multiple servers that you want administer.

While it was developed by an EMC Avamar Engineering, it is not an official EMC supported product or feature, but it is a very simple interface which works well.

See if this helps you:

The easy way to get rid of providing the server name and LoginID is by downloading an administrator.jnlp from the enterprise manager(Launch Administrator.) and name it as your avamar name. This works very good for me. Every time I need to enter only password.

I've seen this before once or twice but the customers I worked with weren't interested in tracking down the root cause. If you're able to reproduce this, I would recommend opening an SR. You can use AvOpener in the meantime (it's a great tool).

Ian,

My system doesn't have a gui_data folder under the mc folder.  The only folder that appears there is gui_log.  I checked the permissions, and my account has full rights to the .avamardata folder and all its subfolders.

To make things even more mystifying, two of my colleagues are reporting that they have the exact same problem with the Administrator on their Windows 7 workstations as well.  I'm tempted to open a support ticket on this, but I figure if this was an issue with the Administrator, somebody would have reported it by now.

Any other suggestions?

Thank you,

Waide

Is there any way to delete the old server name from drop down list of server field of Avamar login window ?