Avamar Server

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IDPA Protection Storage (Data Domain) system with Cloud tier integrated usually has 3 Capacity Usage metrics, Active Tier Capacity, Cloud Tier Capacity and Total Capacity. Avamar Capacity dashboard displays total capacity on the Data Domain dashboard and not the Active Tier Capacity.

The "ifplugstatus" command is no longer valid from SUSE 12.x and above. This has changed to "wicked ifstatus"

Avamar SQL backups can fail with timeout and I/O errors when the SQL Client system experiences high CPU and memory utilization. The issue occurs when other server processes consume critical resources, which prevents Avamar backup processes from completing successfully.

This article describes the procedure for users to get notifications of documents published on any product that has notification abilities.

Avamar versions 19.7, 19.8, and 19.9 File Level Restores (FLR) may fail after the Avamar server is upgraded from version 19.4 or earlier.

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".

The alerts which appear depends on the configuration of the Avamar Administrator console. This article discusses how to prevent unwanted alerts from appearing.

This article is for Avamar user and operating system Capacity Management. The intended readers are Avamar administrators and those monitoring Avamar health, who require a working understanding of how to manage OS and User Capacity.

Restoring replicated or Remote Backups residing on an Avamar target do not complete using a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) user account.

An Avamar Gen4T or Gen5A multinode switch reports a switch error due to an unexpected firmware version.

This article describes how to run a backend capacity report on the /REPLICATE domain.

This article discusses Avamar partial backups and how they behave.

This article shows how to submit a request for new features or functionality in Avamar.

The change-passwords script fails to run due to an expired admin password.

This article provides an overview of how to change the passwords for the internal Avamar 'viewuser' and 'repluser' accounts.

The issue is seen during or after a 19.10 upgrade. Either in the middle or post upgrade the Avamar Installer (AVI) no longer accepts the root password and says it is invalid. In 19.10 new password changes and complexities have been introduced, this includes force setting an expiry warning for 99 days. If the customer sets their password to expire in less than 99 days (commonly 30 or 60 days), the warning appears continuously, preventing login.

Management Console Server (MCS) message "getsockname failed: Bad file descriptor"

An error is encountered logging in to the Avamar Administrator UI.

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) daemon fails to start.

An Avamar Workflow Package (AVP) is rejected in the AVI webpage repository due to an invalid sysinfo error.

This article outlines how to address the two known issues when the ddrmaint.log is not updating.

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

Avamar node reports an Input-output error due to a potential file system issue.

This article provides a resolution for the issue: Symptom Code 4202 - failed garbage collection with error MSG_ERR_BADTIMESYNC

Single node grids, including the Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE), cannot have capacity added. This article lists the workaround.

FLR Browse fails with error message "Failed to parse the LVM GUID list" for vCenter image backup.

This article explains how to fix an issue where the avinstaller workflow stops at 0% without progressing.

This article outlines how to manage checkpoint backups (CP-Backup) with Avamar and Data Domain.