Avamar REST API

Data Domain Capacity Resolution Path.

GoAV is a tool written for Avamar in the programming language, "Go." GoAV is a command-line interface (CLI) tool used on Avamar to gather information and troubleshoot the Avamar environment.

This knowledge base article explains how to deploy the vNDMP accelerator.

This knowledge base article gives instructions on how to upgrade NDMP.

Avamar - FLR fails: VirtualMachine Interface is NULL assist_restore error. ret: 157. LoginGuest Failed. Ret: 67108908, Reason: Failed to get a property on the Virtual Machine object

Within the Avamar Client Manager (ACM), after selecting 'Upgrade Clients' Icon and then choosing Action: 'Select Package' and immediately returns=> 'Unexpected Error' "The request failed. Please see the server log or check the server status"

How to install signed web server certificates for Avinstaller, Client Manager, Tomcat, MCS Developer Kit (MCSDK), Java RMI, and Apache for Avamar User Interface (AUI) on Avamar 19.2 and later using the AUI upload feature.

DPE: vcpsrv status shows shutdown due to invalid vcloud certificate in DPE truststore The Dell EMC Data Protection Extension is the first certificated data protection solution for VMware vCloud Director, which is also a native data protection solution. It extends the vCloud Director HTML 5 UI and REST API providing tenants a single management end-point for their virtual datacenters. Tenants can manage image level backups of VMs and vApps, restore to a new VM or in-place, by policy or adhoc, even file level restore.

This article provides the resolution of when the Avamar UI displays kernel errors related to ConnectEMC start operation.

This article describes how to enable VDDK phone home on the Avamar proxy.

The article describes how to enable debug during Windows client Bare Metal Restore (BMR).

This knowledge article provides information relating to the Immutable Backup (aka Limited Backup Management) Feature.

When vault Data Domain fills up, symptoms include high capacity usage, poor deduplication, and expiration failures. The root cause is inadequate capacity planning, improper backup configuration, and unchecked saveset accumulation across DD, Networker, Avamar, and Cyber Recovery.

VMware image restores failed with "Timeout on wait for spawned restore metadata avtar process to complete"

VMware backup failed when there is a manual snapshot. The Virtual Machine (VM) shows that it needs consolidation but failed.

After a VM image backup is replicated to a target Avamar server, the VM name does not show correctly if it has Chinese characters in it.

Problem: Avamar - Linux VM backups may have LVM metadata inconsistency if they are deployed from a template.

The following steps show how to enable, reset, or unlock the Avamar browse admin user password on Isilon.

This article describes a specific issue in Avamar 19.12 with Management Console Service (MCS) hotfix 338913 that prevents using the Avamar Administrator console by JNLP.

Avamar may display a degraded GSAN status and a Synchronizing state in the mccli server show-prop command due to high metadata utilization, typically exceeding 90%. This issue can arise from incorrect backups, replication to the GSAN, or other factors. To resolve this, follow the steps outlined in Dell internal article 000047627, which detail how to reduce metadata capacity and eliminate the Synchronizing state. After completing these steps, the mccli server show-prop command should display Full Access in the State attribute.

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Use Avamar Management Console Command Line Interface (MCCLI) or avtar to list backups by label.

Avamar AUI shows "503 Service Unavailable" error when attempting to load the AUI login page. DTLT and ACM are working fine.

Instructions to enable Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) on Isilon OneFS.

The Avamar Management Console Server (MCS) fails with the message "Failed to connect to Administrator Server. Connection refused to host" due to the MCS service being down.

Instant Access (IA) restore remains in Waiting‑Client" because the avagent service on the Avamar server is stopped; IA jobs use Avamar as a proxy. Verify MC_SYSTEM client name, start avagent (systemctl start avagent), then either wait 180 s or issue a Reset on MC_SYSTEM to wake it; the restore then goes to running and completes.

How to deploy the latest Avamar proxy patches and hotfixes for Avamar stability.

How to reset or regenerate certificates due to expiration (or misconfiguration).

DPE - new deployment fails with error message 'The cloud credentials are invalid.'

Access Control Lists (ACL) are not restored when a Linux backup is redirected to a new server. Verify User ID (UID)/Group ID (GID), restore /etc/passwd using Avamar Command-Line Interface (CLI) to /tmp, adjust UID/GID, then redo restore so ACLs apply.