Avamar Server

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Data Domain Capacity Resolution Path.

This procedure describes how to install packages on an Avamar grid.

How to Upgrade or Install NetWorker and Best Practices before Upgrade. Use the Solve Procedure Generator for the step-by-step process.

Checking the source Avamar server MCGUI or AUI we can see "Local" backups but not the "Remote" backups under the "Backup Restore and Manage" page.

Unable to add remote Avamar server to source Client Manager (/aam) webpage. This is due to needing the remote Avamar servers certificate imported on the source.

When configuring NDMP backup for PowerScale (Isilon), there is a configuration setting called "Data Management Application (DMA) vendor." For Avamar to successfully backup from PowerScale, it must set to "generic" vendor per the "NDMP User Guide".

Avamar single node systems not integrated with Data Domain allow the Avamar services to start automatically after the operating system comes online. This feature is known as the 'unattended startup status'.

The Avamar Administrator UI cannot be launched after upgrading Java to version7. (Java crash logs can be found in the Avamar Administrator installation folder.)

The Client Manager push upgrade package download fails at 50% due to communication issues between the Avamar downloader server host and Avamar grid

How to replace the default self-signed Management Console Service (MCS) root Certificate Authorities (CA) with its own CA for gsan/mcs/avagent.

This article explains an issue where the Enterprise Manager Tomcat (EMT) shows down using dpnctl status emt command due to the /etc/profile missing.

Avamar backups fail MSG_ERR_AUTH_FAIL). Session tickets must be properly synced between the Global Storage Area Network (GSAN) and Management Console Service (MCS) in order to process a backup.

The Management Console Server (MCS) runs out of memory due to VMware connections taking up too much memory.

Replication fails with Timed-Out-Start.

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

Avamar: VMware FLR for BTRFS Linux VMs fails with error "Failed to change physical volume UUID"

This article discusses aspects of Avamar's encryption-at-rest functionality including its purpose and caveats. The internal sections of this article, which is available to Dell staff and partners only, explain how to configure it.

This article provides information about various tools and logs that an administrator can use to review changes performed on an Avamar grid.

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

Proxy Deploy Management (PDM) failed to upgrade proxy with tje error "Error deleting proxy".

Avamar: Deploying proxies using the Proxy Deployment Manager (PDM) fails: "Error deploying proxy".

Avamar: Avamar Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) Celerra/VNX subvolume incrementals

This article provides an overview of configuring email notifications for backup failures using the Avamar Administrator console. It is intended for customers, partners, and Dell Professional Services or Delivery personnel.

The EMT or tomcat service reports that it started but tomcat is not listening or running on port 8543.

This article provides instructions on how to automate the process of deleting unwanted files from the root partition in Avamar.

This article explains the failure of the checkpoint backup, also known as cpbackup, due to the server root password containing a special character such as $.

Avamar DB2 backup fails or completes with exceptions. The db2diag.log shows a vendor error and a SQL2025N I/O error shortly after the backup starts. With avdb2 debug enabled it shows a process file lock error.

This article applies only to Avamar environments with encryption disabled, initiating Oracle backups from GUI/AUI   Incremental L1 Oracle backups fail with "An incremental backup was requested but there is no previous full backup" error Full and L0 backups are completing successfully Currently affecting all versions up to 19.10

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.