Avamar Server

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

This document highlights minimum, recommended, and latest code versions for Dell Technologies Enterprise and Datacenter Infrastructure products. We carefully evaluate and monitor code deployment data to ensure that product releases meet our stringent expectations to provide our customers with reliable products and solutions.

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.

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).

Avamar vCenter was decommissioned before removing it from the Avamar server. The domain is not removed due to it being marked as a reserved component.

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.

This article provides a way of restoring database from a primary or a secondary Data Domain using product such as Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) Agent and DDBEA.

The system report "Backup SLA Summary By Client" is only showing the colour red for all columns instead of green and red.

Steps on how to verify the key, certificate, and the chain are matching. (Avamar 19.2 and later)

Backup fails is virtual machine contains a IDE type virtual disks

Dell EMC Avamar Plugin plugin deployment status shows as failed in vSphere Client

After a reboot, Windows non-clustered devices were not coming online when using PowerShell to online the devices. Coincidentally, the AppSync plugin was recently installed.

This article explains how to prevent selected Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) from being replicated to a disaster recovery (DR) site during Avamar replication.

Advanced Policy for SQL virtual machine (VM) image backup by using Avamar User Interface (AUI)

Avamar replication runs on retired clients with zero progress bytes.

This article describes in more detail how the Dataset Exclude works in Avamar Windows Client Image Level backups.

Avamar - FLR - Failed to restore files via network due to destination Linux VM using internal internet proxy for "wget" traffic

This article shows how to find Avamar support documentation on the Dell Support site. The article was formerly known as the "Avamar 19.4 Info Hub".

Cloud Disaster Recovery Add-on (CDRA) fails to deploy when a user is part of an organization with a Service Control Policies (SCP) configured.

After the Avamar server is upgraded or the certificates are renewed, replications will not start, an error message prompts with code 30978 and stating "Failed to initiate replication because no proxy was found to service the job." in the description.

The Source and Target Data Domains are not expected to be exactly equal in disk utilization. This document describes the possible reasons the target Data Domain might show higher utilization than the source Data Domain. It is important to note that the discrepancy in utilization may be a result of a combination of the reasons below.

Welcome to the Avamar Data Migration enabler (ADMe) landing page.