Sunday, September 16, 2012

to check DIMM errors on avamar grid.

login as admin
add ssh keys
admin@avamar_grid_name:~/>: mapall --all 'omreport chassis memory | egrep "^Connector|^Status"' 2>&1 | more Using /usr/local/avamar/var/probe.xml



To check Garbage collection status

userid@avamar_grid> avmaint gcstatus

To kill Garbage collection manually through command line

user@avamar_gridname> avmaint -ava gckill

if the avamar has Datadomain then kill this process after gckill ran and gc still running.


user@avamar_gridname> ps -ef|grep ddrmaint
and "kill -9 process_id"
-9 is to kill forcibly.

Avamar passwords

To find out Avamar passwords, goto


more /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/mcserver.xml and grep for userid's like MCUser/root/dpn