Avamar - Clients Agents Plug-ins

Avamar clients
Avamar provides client software for various computing platforms. Each client comprises a client agent and one or more plug-ins.

Agents
Avamar agents are platform-specific software processes that run on the client and communicate with the Management Console Server (MCS) and any plug-ins installed on that client.

Plug-ins
The following topics provide details on the two types of Avamar plug-ins.

File system plug-ins
File system plug-ins are used to browse, back up, and restore files or directories on a specific client file system. Avamar currently provides plug-ins for the following operating systems:

• Free BSD
• HP-UX
• IBM AIX
• Linux
• Mac OS X
• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
• SCO OpenServer
• SCO UnixWare
• Oracle Solaris
• Novell NetWare
• VMware

Application plug-ins
Application plug-ins support backup and restore of databases or other special applications. Avamar currently provides plug-ins for the following applications:

• IBM DB2
• Lotus Domino
• Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)
• Microsoft SQL Server
• NDMP for NAS devices, including EMC Celerra IP storage systems and Network Appliance filers
• Oracle
• SAP with Oracle
• Sybase ASE