Avamar Client for Linux, UNIX, MacOSX

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This article explains how to manage the Avamar Session Security settings by using the Avinstaller installation package (AVP).

This article discusses when enabling Data Domain retention lock in governance mode on Avamar 19.10 causes VMware image backups to fail due to insufficient privileges.

This article shows how to start the Management Console Server (MCS) by addressing an existing hostname configuration issue on the Avamar.

This article shows how to manage the Avamar Session Security settings from the command-line tool.

How to receive Dell Technical Advisories (DTA) and Dell Security Advisories (DSA).

After initiating a VMware image restore job, it fails after nearly 2 minutes, with the following error message: "vSphere Task failed: 'File vmname.vmdk is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore 'datastore-name' "

In some circumstances, a customer that is creating or editing an SQL backup dataset through the AUI (web interface) will encounter a situation where the SQL login credential fields are prepopulated. Removing the credentials and saving the dataset does not resolve the issue, as going back into the dataset shows that the credentials are still present. This issue in Firefox but could theoretically occur with other browsers as well.

Avamar Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) Accelerator upgrade causes "Management Console (MC) REST Application Programming Interface (API) operation failed" and timeout; avagent kept Client Identifier (CID). Run avsetupndmp, then avregister.

If the 'Use certificate authentication for REST communication' checkbox is selected, a Data Domain cannot be edited from the Avamar AUI.

Isilon NDMP backups fail with the error “Failed to create snapshot: Operation not permitted” because the Snapshot service is disabled in OneFS. Enabling the Snapshot service and related settings resolves the issue.

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.

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

An Avamar Gen5A system reports a communications module scanner error, caused by the Telnet server on the Dell S4128F-ON switch being disabled.

Hyper-V backups using Avamar may fail when the Avamar Windows Cluster Service cannot retrieve clustered virtual machines. This issue often occurs in multi-proxy configurations or when cluster resources are misconfigured.

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Avamar, Unable to register Avamar with Avagent in the /MC_SYSTEM domain due to missing flag in the avagent.cfg file.

Avamar event email notifications failed to deliver due to invalid email addresses in the email profile.

This article addresses the issue where Avamar backups do not change from "Marked" to "Cloud" after data movement. The problem occurs because the updatebackuprecs parameter is set to false by default. Confirm this behavior using the Avamar Web Console, Administrator Console, or command-line. To resolve, contact Dell support or manually restart the Avamar server with the expert flag, ensuring the updatebackuprecs parameter is set to true.

This article describes an issue with Avamar 19.10 Fitness Analyzer which is showing incorrect results in the backup report history.

This article discusses the limitation of using the "mccli backup validate" command in VMware image backup.

Avamar Fitness Analyzer shows empty history of all activities for the day in versions 19.9.0-78_HF338827 and 19.10.0-166_HF338869 due to NullPointerException.

This article explains how deactivating a proxy in an Avamar server with multiple integrated vCenters changes the vc_id.

This article explains an issue where editing the Data Domain on an Avamar server results in 'Update Data Domain failed' error because 'SSH client not authenticated.' When adding a new Data Domain to an Avamar, the failure message is: "Unable to add SNMP Community string to Data Domain system."

Avamar server enters admin sync mode due to high metadata capacity and does not revert when usage is lowered.

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This article explains the error when enabling governance mode in the Avamar server.

Dell Avamar, Dell Networker Virtual Edition (NVE) and Dell PowerProtect DP Series Appliance / Dell Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

The login to the remote management page is successful, but when downloading the jviewer.jnlp to launch, it does not start.