Wednesday 24 September 2014

Avamar 7.0.1 - Disabled groups are being reported as failed

Since the last version of Avamar, any clients located within a disabled backup group are now
being reported as "Failed" in the daily  summary. This is good if for some reason you forgot to re-enable a group after a temporary exclusion, but very annoying if you have groups disabled for some good reasons.

This behavior can be change in the mcserver.xml file ( Please be careful ):



1. Make a backup of mcserver.xml just in case.
cp -p /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/mcserver.xml /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/x-mcserver.bak20140923

2. Edit the mcserver.xml file
vi /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/mcserver.xml

3. Change this key from true to false
<entry key="report_disabled_client_job_as_fail" value="false" />

4. Restart MCS and the backup scheduler
dpnctl stop mcs; dpnctl start mcs; dpnctl start sched