Sunday, April 14, 2013

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"

Sunday, April 7, 2013

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