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

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

replicating client level from command line

nohup replicate --flagfile=/usr/local/avamar/etc/repl_cron.cfg --timeout=0 --include=/clients/client_name --logfile=/tmp/replication3.log >> /tmp/replication3.log


Wednesday, May 30, 2012

To know the grids configuration about GC, CP, Readonly

admin@avamar_grid01:~/>: avmaint --ava config | grep disk

disknocreate="90"

disknocp="96"

disknogc="87"

disknoflush="94"

diskwarning="50"

diskreadonly="65"

disknormaldelta="2"

diskfull="30"

diskfulldelta="5"

balancelocaldisks="false"

admin@avamar_grid01:~/>