We had some rough patches but managed to plow through it and now have the
Avamar solution working at 28 sights with in our school districit.
A little about our enviroment, we have 27 remote sites all conected back to our central office via a varing Metro Ethernet links between 10 Mbps to private fiber running at 1,000 Mbps. Each remote location has a Dell Power 2950 servers with 8 GB of RAM. Each server runs native Netware 6.5 SP7, Groupwise 7, Zenworks 7, Print services for the building, Vexira AV, and a library catalog system.
The Avamar unit we initally recieved shiped with the Netware AVAgent version 4.1.0.1470, we had a lot of problems with this client build abending my netware servers by eating up the memmory buffers. We tried hard setting the Pcache and Fcache in the backup job but this did not realy help.
Some of the errors we encountered where as follows
2-10-2009 8:24:33 pm: SERVER-5.70-0 [nmID=2000A]
Short term memory allocator is out of memory.
1 attempts to get more memory failed.
request size in bytes 160 from Module SERVER.NLM
2-10-2009 8:59:59 pm: SERVER-5.70-0 [nmID=6001D]
Cache memory allocator out of available memory.
We then when to a prior version some of the other customers where using 4.0.3-24 this version worked for a few days but would abend my servers as well.
EMC came out with an updated build 4.1.105-68 this build required a modification preformed by EMC support staff on our Avamar Utility nodes. Bellow are the steps I had to preform on our Netware servers to make the client functional.
1.) Delete all traces on your server of any prior Avamar client
2.) Remark out any services beyond those required to get your netware server up and running.
3.) Restart the server
4.) In SYS:\AVAMAR create a VAR directory and create a file avagent.cmd
5.) Edit avagent.cmd and place --sharedheapsize=500 in the file. This sets Avamar to run in a reserved memory space of 500 MB
6.) Launch the installation of the Avamar client as per normal instructions
7.) Edit the autoexec.ncf and make certain the Avamar client is loading before any non OS related services, also re-enable the rest of your services remarked out in step 2.
8.) Load the rest of your services make certain everything is running
9.) Restart the server to make certain everything loaded correctly. You may need to play with the placement in the load order.
I have had working backups for the past 4 months with this client and load sequence.
Some files of note
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Autoexec.ncf
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SET LEVEL 2 OPLOCKS ENABLED = OFF
SET CLIENT FILE CACHING ENABLED = OFF
SET Daylight Savings Time Offset = 1:00:00
SET Start Of Daylight Savings Time = (MARCH SUNDAY SECOND 2:00:00 AM)
SET End Of Daylight Savings Time = (NOVEMBER SUNDAY FIRST 2:00:00 AM)
SET Time Zone = EST5EDT
# Note: The Time zone information mentioned above
# should always precede the SERVER name.
SEARCH ADD SYS:/system
SEARCH ADD SYS:/JAVA/BIN
SEARCH ADD SYS:/JAVA/NWGFX/BIN
SEARCH ADD SYS:/JAVA/NJCLV2/BIN
SEARCH ADD SYS:/NI/UPDATE/BIN
SEARCH ADD sys:/usr/sbin
SEARCH ADD sys:/usr/bin
SEARCH ADD SYS:/APACHE2
SEARCH ADD SYS:/tomcat/4/bin
SEARCH ADD SYS:/tomcat/5.0/bin
SEARCH ADD SYS:/JAVA/NWGFX
search add sys:/public/vexira
SEARCH ADD SYS:/VEXIRA
SEARCH ADD SYS:/SYSTEM/NMA
SEARCH ADD SYS:/BIN
FILE SERVER NAME South
load conlog MAXIMUM=100
sys:/etc/initsys.ncf
load monitor
dhcpsrvr
LOAD SCMD
mount all
IPMINIT.NCF
load nile.nlm
load httpstk.nlm /SSL /keyfile:"SSL CertificateIP"
LOAD PORTAL.NLM
LOAD NDSIMON.NLM
LOAD NICISDI.XLM
LOAD SASDFM.XLM
NMA5.NCF
BSTART.NCF
UNIXENV.NCF
LOAD PKI.NLM
LOAD NLDAP.NLM
PSA
SCRIPT.NCF
AP2WEBUP
ADMSRVUP
tcadmup.ncf
tomcat4.ncf
tomcat5.ncf
RCONAG6
SMSSTART.NCF
LOAD EMBOX.NLM
openwbem.ncf
# Added by Avamar Client Install
SYS:\AVAMAR\BIN\AVCTL.NLM start
grpwise
spectrum.ncf
zfdstart.ncf
printers.ncf
scrsaver
vaguard
vaupdate
cron.nlm
sys:\system\gwsrch.ncf
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SMSSTART.NCF
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LOAD SMSUT.NLM
LOAD SMDR.NLM
LOAD TSAFS.NLM
LOAD TSANDS.NLM
