Thursday, November 6, 2014

How to limit proxy streams on Avamar 7.1

In Avamar 7.1, each proxy is now only registered once but can do eight streams.  This is great for management like access to datastores and groups as you no longer have to modify eight registered proxies.  If you want to limit the amount of streams in version 7, all you had to do was not give some registered proxies access to the datastores and that was it. This was useful in smaller environment where you want the redundancy of having two VM proxies but limit them to say four streams per proxy.
In this new release this has to be done by modifying the mcserver.xml file:
Just change the value from the default "8" to the amount of streams you want, in the case above, "4." Remember to restart the MCS service in order for this change to take place.

*Keep in mind that this is a global change and will affect ALL proxies.

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