CG Unix agent causes performance issues for RedHat machines.

  • 7022409
  • 30-Nov-2017
  • 08-Oct-2018

Environment

Change Guardian

Situation

Issue:  Perl process is taking up significant system resources

Resolution

Fix:

1) Download the Patch zip file - p751p101.zip
2) Extract the patch - p751p101.zip
3) Stop the "auditd" service using -
$ service auditd stop
4) Apply the patch using wcPatch utility or through UAM patchadd procedure - https://www.netiq.com/documentation/security-agent-for-unix-75/securityagentforunix751/data/b117wekw.html
5) Start the "auditd" service using the command-
    service auditd start
6) Restart the agent services from installation bin path using the commands -
    vigilentagent.rc restart
    detectd.rc restart

Cause

Audit configuration close system call removed from configuration.