Dell EMC Avamar Administration Guide 18.2 Dell Inc. June 2020 Rev. 03 Notes, cautions, and warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2001 - 2020 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners. Contents Figures......................................................................................................................................... 12 Tables.......................................................................................................................................... 13 Preface........................................................................................................................................ 19 Chapter 1: Introduction..................................................................................................................22 Avamar system overview................................................................................................................................................... 22 Avamar server................................................................................................................................................................22 Avamar clients................................................................................................................................................................25 User interfaces...............................................................................................................................................................26 Data Domain system support....................................................................................................................................... 27 Data deduplication...............................................................................................................................................................28 Security and networking.....................................................................................................................................................28 Encryption.......................................................................................................................................................................28 IPv4 and IPv6 support.................................................................................................................................................. 29 TSL 1.2 encryption protocol required..........................................................................................................................29 SSH MAC algorithms.................................................................................................................................................... 29 Chapter 2: Avamar Administrator................................................................................................... 30 Overview of Avamar Administrator...................................................................................................................................30 Installing Avamar Administrator.........................................................................................................................................30 Installing Avamar Administrator on Microsoft Windows...........................................................................................30 Installing Avamar Administrator on Linux.................................................................................................................... 31 Upgrading Avamar Administrator...................................................................................................................................... 32 Uninstalling Avamar Administrator.................................................................................................................................... 32 Editing Avamar Administrator client preferences............................................................................................................32 Setting a session time-out for Avamar Administrator.................................................................................................... 33 Starting Avamar Administrator.......................................................................................................................................... 33 Avamar Administrator dashboard......................................................................................................................................34 launcher link....................................................................................................................................................................35 System Information panel.............................................................................................................................................35 Activities panel............................................................................................................................................................... 37 Capacity panel................................................................................................................................................................38 Critical Events panel......................................................................................................................................................39 Avamar Administrator user interface elements............................................................................................................... 39 Status bar....................................................................................................................................................................... 39 Navigation tree features...............................................................................................................................................42 Mouse shortcuts............................................................................................................................................................42 Chapter 3: Avamar Web User Interface........................................................................................... 43 Overview of the AUI .......................................................................................................................................................... 43 Access the AUI.....................................................................................................................................................................43 Contents 3 AUI navigation pane............................................................................................................................................................ 44 Basic management tasks....................................................................................................................................................45 Navigation tree features.....................................................................................................................................................45 AUI dashboard......................................................................................................................................................................46 Monitoring assets in the dashboard............................................................................................................................46 Monitoring system capacity in the dashboard........................................................................................................... 47 Viewing events in the dashboard.................................................................................................................................48 Monitoring backup jobs in the dashboard...................................................................................................................48 Monitoring replication jobs in the dashboard............................................................................................................. 48 Viewing client information............................................................................................................................................ 49 AUI Activity Monitor............................................................................................................................................................49 Activity Monitor details.................................................................................................................................................49 Monitor backups.............................................................................................................................................................51 Cancel backups...............................................................................................................................................................51 Restart a backup job...................................................................................................................................................... 51 View a detailed client session log.................................................................................................................................52