Avamar: How to Use Goav security keystore
Summary: Use the Goav tool to show keystore contents or check the health of all the keystores on the Avamar system.
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Instructions
Download and Install Goav tool.
See Dell article 000192151 Avamar: Goav tool to download and install the Avamar Goav tool.
Notes
- Upon each subsequent release of Avamar, the feature has to be validated again.
- All goav security commands must be run as root.
Features
Show Keystore Contents.
This command gives a drop-down selection prompt to choose which keystore to print.
./goav security keystore show
This command prints all keystores to the screen.
./goav security keystore show --all
Check Keystore and Lockbox Configuration with an optional automatic fix.
This command performs several health checks against all keystores on the Avamar system.
- Check that each keystore exists.
- Check the keystore permissions and ownership.
- Check that the keystore passphrase in the lockbox is synchronized with the keystore.
- Check that each keystore is the proper format (PKCS12).
- Check that each required alias (certificate) is present in each keystore.
- Check that each required alias (certificate) is not expired in each keystore.
- Show results of the checks in the form of green checkmarks for verified configurations and a red "X" for failed verifications with an error message.
./goav security keystore check-config
This command performs several health checks against all keystores and automatically fixes them.
- Check that each keystore exists.
- Check the keystore permissions and ownership.
- Check that the keystore passphrase in the lockbox is synchronized with the keystore.
- Check that each keystore is the proper format (PKCS12).
- Check that each required alias (certificate) is present in each keystore.
- Check that each required alias (certificate) is not expired in each keystore.
- Show results of the checks in the form of green checkmarks for verified configurations and a red "X" for failed verifications with an error message.
- Auto regenerate missing keystores.
- Automatically fix permissions and ownership.
- Auto regenerate keystores if the entry for the lockbox keystore passphrase does not match the keystore's set passphrase.
- Back up existing keystores before regeneration.
/home/admin/goav_keystore_backup
- Automatically regenerate a keystore or specific alias if a required alias is missing or expired.
- Update MCSSL private key entry from Java RMI keystore to sync with Avinstaller (AVI) and Tomcat keystore.
- Restart appropriate services.
./goav security keystore check-config --fix
Regenerate Keystore.
This command gives a drop-down selection prompt to choose which keystore to regenerate on-demand.
./goav security keystore regenerate
This command regenerates all the keystores.
./goav security keystore regenerate --all
The keystore regeneration command completes the following tasks:
- Back up the existing keystore.
- Regenerate the keystore.
- Update the permissions and ownership of the new keystore.
- Export MCSSL entry from RMI keystore and import to Avinstaller and Tomcat keystore.
- Restart affected services.
Examples
Show a keystore.
root@avamar:/home/admin/#: ./goav security keystore show =========================================================== GoAv : 1.77 Avamar : 19.10 Date : 08 Jul 2024 13:39 CDT =========================================================== COMMAND : ./goav security keystore show NOTE: This is not an official tool =========================================================== ┃ Select Keystore to Print ┃ RMI_SSL_KEYSTORE ┃ AVAMAR_KEYSTORE ┃ > AVI_KEYSTORE ┃ TOMCAT_KEYSTORE ↑ up • ↓ down • / filter • enter submit
Check keystore configuration in passive mode.
root@avamar:/home/admin/#: ./goav security keystore check-config =========================================================== GoAv : 1.77 Avamar : 19.10 Date : 08 Jul 2024 13:41 CDT =========================================================== COMMAND : ./goav security keystore check-config NOTE: This is not an official tool =========================================================== RMI_SSL_KEYSTORE ---------------- Path /usr/local/avamar/lib/rmi_ssl_keystore Exists ✓ Permissions ✓ Ownership ✓ Passphrase ✓ Format ✓ Alias Existence ✓ Alias Expiration ✓ AVAMAR_KEYSTORE --------------- Path /usr/local/avamar/lib/avamar_keystore Exists ✓ Permissions ✓ Ownership ✓ Passphrase ✓ Format ✓ Alias Existence ✓ Alias Expiration ✓ AVI_KEYSTORE ------------ Path /usr/local/avamar/lib/avi/avi_keystore Exists ✓ Permissions ✗ incorrect permissions: r--r--r-- Ownership ✗ incorrect ownership: admin:root Passphrase ✓ Format ✓ Alias Existence ✗ missing entries: mcssl Alias Expiration ✓ TOMCAT_KEYSTORE --------------- Path /home/tomcat/.keystore Exists ✓ Permissions ✓ Ownership ✓ Passphrase ✓ Format ✓ Alias Existence ✓ Alias Expiration ✓
Check keystore configuration in active/automatic fix mode.
root@avamar:/home/admin/#: ./goav security keystore check-config --fix =========================================================== GoAv : 1.77 Avamar : 19.10 Date : 08 Jul 2024 13:42 CDT =========================================================== COMMAND : ./goav security keystore check-config --fix NOTE: This is not an official tool =========================================================== RMI_SSL_KEYSTORE ---------------- Path /usr/local/avamar/lib/rmi_ssl_keystore Exists ✓ Permissions ✓ Ownership ✓ Passphrase ✓ Format ✓ Alias Existence ✓ Alias Expiration ✓ AVAMAR_KEYSTORE --------------- Path /usr/local/avamar/lib/avamar_keystore Exists ✓ Permissions ✓ Ownership ✓ Passphrase ✓ Format ✓ Alias Existence ✓ Alias Expiration ✓ AVI_KEYSTORE ------------ Path /usr/local/avamar/lib/avi/avi_keystore Exists ✓ Permissions ✗ incorrect permissions: r--r--r-- Ownership ✗ incorrect ownership: admin:root Passphrase ✓ Format ✓ Alias Existence ✗ missing entries: mcssl Alias Expiration ✓ TOMCAT_KEYSTORE --------------- Path /home/tomcat/.keystore Exists ✓ Permissions ✓ Ownership ✓ Passphrase ✓ Format ✓ Alias Existence ✓ Alias Expiration ✓ Fix Keystore Issues ------------------- ⢿ Fixing any AVI_KEYSTORE issues...
Regenerate a keystore on-demand.
root@avamar:/home/admin/#: ./goav security keystore regenerate =========================================================== GoAv : 1.77 Avamar : 19.10 Date : 08 Jul 2024 13:45 CDT =========================================================== COMMAND : ./goav security keystore regenerate NOTE: This is not an official tool =========================================================== ┃ Select Keystore to Regenerate ┃ RMI_SSL_KEYSTORE ┃ AVAMAR_KEYSTORE ┃ > AVI_KEYSTORE ┃ TOMCAT_KEYSTORE ↑ up • ↓ down • / filter • enter submit // user selected to regenerate AVI_KEYSTORE Fix Keystore Issues ------------------- ⣟ Restarting Avinstaller...
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Article Number: 000204386
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 30 Oct 2025
Version: 15
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