EMC Avamar replication not working after renaming grid

So i was about to finish a job with the last item to do was start replication between PROD and DR.  Problem is that the replication job gets stuck in waiting indefinitely (see end of blog for job log).  After a support chat with EMC this is a known issue in version 7 of Avamar (though they might fix it in 7.0.2).  After renaming a grid, the Avamar Client Agent (or avagent) still looks for the original name of the grid for replication.  Below you will see the steps for getting around this until a fix from EMC comes out.

• Run the following line, you should see the old grid name and the new grid name:

root@host:~/#: avmgr getl --path=/MC_SYSTEM
1  Request succeeded
1  OLDGRIDNAME.domain        location: hex number      pswd: hex number
1  NEWGRIDNAME.domain       location: hex number      pswd: hex number

• Next create avagent.cmd in /usr/local/avamar/var/

root@host:~/#: vi /usr/local/avamar/var/avagent.cmd

• Enter the following two lines and save:

--hostname=OLDGRIDNAME.domain
--mcsaddr=CURRENTIPADDRESS (not old one)

• Restart the Avamar Client Agent:

root@host:~/#: service avagent restart

• You should see the following

avagent Info: Stopping Avamar Client Agent (avagent)...

avagent Info: Client Agent stopped.

avagent Info <5008>: Logging to /usr/local/avamar/var/avagent.log

avagent Info <5174>: - Reading /usr/local/avamar/var/avagent.cmd

avagent Info <5417>: daemonized as process id 52585

avagent Info: Client Agent started.

• Once the service has restarted, go into Avamar Administrator, Policies and select the domain your grid is in.  You should see your new grid name and old one.  Make sure neither of them are disabled and replication will start working.

• For those interested in seeing what is in the log for the stuck job:
  

  <logdir ack="no" errdesc="Message intended for Client &apos;04012b6ed263497e84e7b3f0a96300d6fd12989f&apos; received incorrectly at agent on NEWGRIDNAME:1.1.1.1(e433961fb4975d1aa2ce635993242f2"

  21083161d) currently registered to &apos;newprod&apos;" pidnum="1008" targetCid="" browsetimeout="10" maxelems="-1" file="MOD-1352394809289" supportbundle="false" sync="fg" cmd="getworklog" cid="04012b600d6fd129d26349789fee84e7b3f0a963" errno="6207" showd