Dell EMC Avamar for Windows Servers 19.7 User Guide

Configuring the federated cluster client on Windows Server

1. Log in to an active node as a domain administrator.
   1. Ensure that the account is also a member of the local Administrators group on each cluster node.
   2. Ensure that the node on which you logged in, is the owner of the share storage that you want to configure.
   NOTE The account must also be a member of the local Administrators group on each cluster node.
2. Open the Cluster Configuration Tool, by opening a command prompt and typing the following command:

   C:\Program Files\avs\bin\AvamarClusterConfiguration.exe

   where C:\Program Files\avs\bin\ is the Avamar client installation path.

   The wizard opens.
3. Perform the following steps by using the Cluster Configuration Tool:
   1. In the Choose a group for Install or Update: field, select the shared storage that you would like to configure.
   2. Click Configure.
   3. Ignore the following error message and then click OK.

      No pin files found on local installation path C:\Program Files\avs\bin\. Aborting installation!

   4. Ignore the following error message and then click OK.

      Could not find cid.bin in var folder path(H:\Program Files \Backup Agents for Cluster Groups\vm-share16NTFS\var
      \cid.bin). Please check avagent.log file to see if there are problems with client registration! Tip: This error can occur
      if provided details for Avamar server are incorrect.

   5. Ignore the following error message and then click OK.

      Configure of Avamar Cluster Client for cluster group: "vmshare16NTFS" is finished. Configured plug-ins:

   6. Click Done.
4. Open the Failover Cluster Manager and perform the following steps:
   1. Select <Cluster Name> > Roles > <Shared Storage Name>..
   2. Click Resources at the bottom on the window.
   3. Right-click the Backup Agent service that you just configured.
   4. Click Properties.
   5. Add the following text to the end of the Startup parameters.
      For example:

      "--service --mcsaddr=a4dpn212d6.asl.lab.emc.com --mcsport=28001 --dpndomain=clients --vardir="H:\Program Files\Backup Agents for Cluster Groups\vm-share16NTFS\var" --logfile="H:\Program Files\Backup Agents for Cluster Groups\vm-share16NTFS\var\avagent.log" --netbind=. --disablegui=true --pin_include=windows.pin

5. Click OK.