Welcome to Dell Technologies Avamar How To Series Automated Shutdown or Reboot Feature for Avamar 7.5.1 or above Reference Dell Knowledge Article Number 20221.
This video was created to demonstrate how the Avamar automated reboot feature works from both the Administrator GUI and CLI This video presents the following: the process from the Administrator GUI (run as MCUser or Equivalent) The process from the CLI (run as user admin, then elevated to root privilege) You also have the ability to shutdown, without rebooting, if required Note – refer to KB 20221 for full details .
When to do this During scheduled outages and emergency shutdowns Before you begin Requirements Have Administrator (or Equivalent) credentials for the GUI or both the admin and root passwords for Putty Have the IP or FQDN of the Avamar grid Tools required Putty or Administrator GUI Notes Any running backup or replication jobs will be canceled Any Garbage collection or hfscheck maintenance tasks will be canceled.
If there hasn't been a recent checkpoint, one will be taken during this process If hardware errors are detected, the grid will not boot and a Service Request will need to be logged The Reboot via GUI demonstration Log in as MCUser or equivalent Select server Server Management Actions From the pull-down menu, select "reboot DPN grid" Click "Yes" to confirm.
The reboot process will begin Click "OK" to the status box stating the operation has been triggered successfully The Administrator console will report a disconnect after the MCM service has been shutdown Automated reboot via CLI demonstration Log in as User Admin Switch to the root user and enter the password Run the AVO shutdown script with the required option.
In this instance we are choosing to reboot Optionally, you can choose to do a pre-check or shutdown The services will begin to shut down A checkpoint will be taken if required If no issues are encountered during the shutdown of the services the nodes will reboot and your Putty session will be disconnected.
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