NetIQ UNIX Agent Release Notes Hotfix 8.1.0.11

Date Published: November 2020

The NetIQ UNIX Agent includes the following components:

  • NetIQ UNIX Agent Manager: A console and data store that you can use to manage all your UNIX agents’ components across your enterprise. UNIX Agent Manager runs on Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems. Most features can be accessed from a command line as well as from the console.

  • AppManager UNIX Agent: A component of the NetIQ UNIX Agent that enables support for AppManager and provides the managed objects for UNIX and Linux AppManager modules.

  • Common components: Components that are shared by the AppManager UNIX Agent and the Security Agent for UNIX.

This hotfix improves usability and resolves several previous issues.

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1.0 What’s New

This release of AppManager UNIX Agent provides the following enhancements:

  • Support for ZFS Knowledge Scripts

  • Support for Smart Knowledge Scripts

  • Support for HTML Eventing in Smart and ZFS Knowledge Scripts

This release also resolves the following issues:

  • Time is one hour later than the date output. Time zone update on the agent machine is updated in the AppManager MS and repository (QDB) with every agent heartbeat to the MS and not just during agent restart. (ENG337646)

  • UNIX actions raise events with NetBIOS name. Convert IPAddress/FQDN into NetBIOS name so that machine name variable values remains consistent throughout the iterations. (ENG341409)

  • Problem with precision of datastream value stored. Precision of the DataStream Value sent by the UNIX Agent is now handled correctly. (ENG342098)

  • MS reconfiguration agent is unable to connnect to primary. After MS reconfiguration agent is now able to connect to primary. (ENG339919)

  • Managed object leaking cursors due to unclosed SQL statement handle. Oracle MO leaking cursors due to unclosed SQL Statement is resolved. (ENG344225)

  • After upgrading agent to 8.1, WebSphere Application Server UNIX Module Knowledge scripts do not work. WebSphere Application Server UNIX Module Knowledge Scripts now work after upgrading the agent to 8.1 from previous versions (7.5, and 8.0). (ENG340052)

  • After upgrading agent to 8.1, WebLogic Server UNIX Module Knowledge Scripts do not work. WebLogic Server UNIX Module Knowledge scripts work after agent is upgraded to 8.1 from previous versions (7.5, and 8.0). (ENG340055)

2.0 System Requirements

For the most recently updated list of supported application versions, see the AppManager Supported Products page. Unless noted otherwise, this module supports all updates, hotfixes, and service packs for the releases listed below.

AppManager UNIX Agent has the following system requirements:

Software/Hardware

Version

NetIQ AppManager installed on the AppManager repository (QDB) computers, on the computers you want to monitor (agents), and on all console computers

8.0.3, 8.2, 9.1, or later

Operating system on the computers you want to monitor (agent computers)

One of the following:

  • CentOS on x86_32 (32-bit agent): 4, 5, 6, and 7

  • CentOS on x86_64 (64-bit kernel, 64-bit agent): 4, 5, 6, and 7

  • IBM AIX on IBM Power (64-bit kernel, 32-bit agent): 5.3, 6, and 7.1

  • HP-UX on PA-RISC (64-bit kernel): 11.1x, 11iv2, and 11iv3

  • HP-UX on Itanium (64-bit kernel, 64-bit agent): 11iv2 and 11iv3

  • Oracle Linux on x86_32 or PowerPC (32-bit agent): 4, 5, and 6

  • Oracle Linux on x86_64 (64-bit kernel, 64-bit agent): 4, 5, 6, and 7

  • Oracle Linux on Itanium (64-bit kernel, 64-bit agent): 4, 5, and 6

  • Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit kernel): 9, 10, and 11

  • Oracle Solaris on x86 (32-bit kernel): 10 and 11

  • Red Hat Enterprise Server on x86_32 or PowerPC (32-bit agent): 4, 5, 6, and 7

  • Red Hat Enterprise Server on x86_64 (64-bit kernel, 64-bit agent): 4, 5, 6 and 7

  • Red Hat Enterprise Server on x86_64 (64-bit kernel, 64-bit agent): 4, 5, 6 and 7

  • Red Hat Enterprise Server on Itanium (64-bit kernel, 64-bit agent): 4, 5, and 6

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on x86 or PowerPC (32-bit agent): 9, 10, 11, and 12

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on x86_64 (64-bit kernel, 64-bit agent): 9, 10, 11, and 12

  • Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2. To get the support, apply the following prerequisites before installing the UNIX Agent:

    1. Manually run the below command to create softlink for “libnsl.so.1"

      ln -s libnsl.so.2.0.0 libnsl.so.1

    2. Modify "/etc/redhat-release" file and add additional word "Server" as shown below to suppress any version-related warnings.

      NOTE:No UAM support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 is available.

Operating systems on the (UAM) console computers

One of the following:

  • CentOS 6 and 7

  • Oracle Linux 6

  • Red Hat Enterprise Server 7

  • Red Hat Enterprise Server 6

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

  • Windows 2012 Server

  • Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Windows 2008 R2

  • Windows 2008 Server (32-bit and 64-bit)

For more information about hardware requirements and supported operating systems and browsers, see the UNIX Agent Management Guide, included in the download package.

3.0 Contact Information

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