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how to find Avamar serial number for utility and storage nodes

For Avamar Datastore Generation 4 nodes

Avamar Datastore Generation 4 hardware consists of two different types of Dell nodes (R510 and R710). A new hardware information retreival system is used and has a different command that will work on all Gen4 nodes.

To retrieve the serial number on a node, login as root and issue the following command:

/usr/bin/ipmitool fru print 0 " grep "Product Asset Tag" " sed "s/^.*: *\(.*\)/\1/"

This command must be run as root user or else you will see an error such as:

"Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory"

The following mapall command is run from the utility node (run as admin with dpnid key loaded) will retrieve the serial numbers from all of the nodes in the grid.

mapall --noerror --user=root --nodes=all+ --quiet 'echo `hostname -i`": "`/usr/bin/ipmitool fru print 0 " grep "Product Asset Tag" " sed "s/^.*:\s\(.*$\)/\1/"`'

Sample output:

10.6.240.193: NNG05104310280_100-580-617_A04
10.6.240.194: NNG05104310279_100-580-617_A04
10.6.240.195: NNG05104310284_100-580-617_A04
10.6.240.196: NNG05104310287_100-580-617_A04

The node serials in the example above start with NNG up to the first underscore.

The 100-580-617_A04 part is the EMC part/revision number.

Avamar unix client side restore, add noticketrequired for the user created. Ldap

Admin@avamar> avmgr logn --id=rman_user@/rman --password=rman_user

1 Request succeeded

32817 privilege level (enabled,read,backup,mclogin)

2 block type (directory)

Admin@avamar>avmgr chgv --path=/rman  --u=rman_user --pv=’enabled,read,backup,mclogin,noticketrequired’ –ud=’avamar’

1 Request succeeded

36913 privilege level (enabled,read,backup,noticketrequired,mclogin)

2 block type (directory)

Man-In-The-Middle attack: “REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!”

If you receive a message referencing a possible Man-In-The-Middle attack:
“REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!”

Remove the IP address in question from "/home/admin/.ssh/known_hosts"

Redirected restore disabled for all non-administrators in Avamar 6.1 and above. You can enable by following this procedure.

Avamar 6.1, Redirect restore is disabled by default for non-administrator users and needs to be enabled from the avamar server.

1-      Login to avamar as root

2-      Run the commands in red without #

3-      # cd /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/

4-      # cp mcserver.xml mcserver.xml_orig

5-      Open the file mcserver.xml, you can use vi

6-      Search for the entries below

 entry key="admin_can_direct_restores" value="false" 

 entry key="restore_admin_can_direct_restores" value="false" 

7-      Change both entries to true

 entry key="admin_can_direct_restores" value="true" 

 entry key="restore_admin_can_direct_restores" value="true" 

8-      Save the file

9-      Need to restart the mcs (All backup and restore activities will be cleared)

10-   # su - admin

11-   # ssh-agent bash

12-   # ssh-add .ssh/dpnid

13-   # dpnctl stop mcs

14-   # dpnctl start mcs

15-   # dpnctl start