Avamar: Proxy Deployment Manager Fails To Deploy Proxy

Summary: Proxy Deployment Manager (PDM) fails to deploy proxy with error message "Failed with HTTP error code: 400", "The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect."

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Symptoms

Proxy Deployment Manager fails to deploy proxy with error message "Failed with HTTP error code : 400", "The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect."

screenshot showing Proxy error message


From Avamar MCS log file /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_log/mcserver.log.0, see below warnings: 

10/10-10:23:26.00489 com.avamar.mc.pdm.ProxyDeploymentManagerService.logFailure
WARNING: uri=https://localhost:8543/deploymanager/recommend/7e259e93-2f04-4e73-90fb-a65ea889784c, header=X-CustomTicket=71b
e6487-c250-40a7-a2c1-5ee99753f2bd, body={"vcenter":"*******","user":"******","datacenters":[{
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10/10-10:23:26.00489 com.avamar.mc.util.MCException.logException
WARNING: com.avamar.asn.service.ServiceException: Failed with HTTP error code : 400
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  at com.avamar.mc.pdm.ProxyDeploymentManagerService.updateRecommendation(ProxyDeploymentManagerService.java:185)
  at com.avamar.mc.pdm.ProxyDeploymentManagerService.deployProxy(ProxyDeploymentManagerService.java:206)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
  at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:318)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:183)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:150)
  at org.springframework.security.access.intercept.aopalliance.MethodSecurityInterceptor.invoke(MethodSecurityInterceptor.j
ava:61)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)
  at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy22.deployProxy(Unknown Source)
  at com.avamar.mc.pdm.ProxyDeploymentManagerServiceContext.deployProxy(ProxyDeploymentManagerServiceContext.java:45)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
  at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(Unknown Source)
  at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Unknown Source)
  at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Unknown Source)
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Unknown Source)
  at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(Unknown Source)
  at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(Unknown Source)
  at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.lambda$run$0(Unknown Source)
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(Unknown Source)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
10/10-10:23:28.00157 com.avamar.mc.cr.bcConnection.readClientMessage

Cause

The results of the PDM create recommendation where the vCenter server hierarchy is retrieved (data centers, clusters, hosts, datastores, and networks). This is stored in a JSON-formatted output saved in a file with a name that can be found in the previously mentioned MCS log (mcserver.log.*). This JSON file can be located under /usr/local/avamar/var/vcs/dm/recommendations/.

10/10-10:23:26.00489 com.avamar.mc.pdm.ProxyDeploymentManagerService.logFailure
WARNING: uri=https://localhost:8543/deploymanager/recommend/7e259e93-2f04-4e73-90fb-a65ea889784c, header=X-CustomTicket=71b
e6487-c250-40a7-a2c1-5ee99753f2bd, body={"vcenter":"*******","user":"******","datacenters":[{

One of the virtualized components on the vCenter server (a network in that case) had an invalid UTF-8 character causing the proxy deployment failure.

/usr/local/avamar/var/vcs/dm/recommendations/7e259e93-2f04-4e73-90fb-a65ea889784c.json

{"name":"Publica  o","mor":{"type":"Network","val":"network-73"}

Resolution

A network name with an invalid UTF-8 character in the request caused this issue. Either give the Avamar account on the vCenter a no access-role on that network level or rename it removing the invalid non-UTF-8.

Affected Products

Avamar Server

Products

Avamar Server
Article Properties
Article Number: 000050103
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 20 May 2026
Version:  7
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