dmidecode errors on RSA Web tier Vm

[AnthonyFualdes]

Hi,

After installing and deploying web tier v8.2.1.4 on a Linux 64bits VM, the following rsa services display errors at start up:

/etc/init.d/rsabootstrapperservmgr: line 19: /opt/dmidecode/sbin/dmidecode: No such file or directory

and

/etc/init.d/rsaservmgr: line 19: /opt/dmidecode/sbin/dmidecode: No such file or directory

The self-services seems to be well started and available for users but do you think this error could have an impact on server and generate an incident or a risk ?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Anthony

[EdwardDavis]

That is harmless. 

The script is trying to detect if it is installed on a specific type of Intel Machine type Sika.

If it is there is an asset tag it can find in a known location.

enable_cache() {
KNOWN_TAGS=( "100-200-313" "100-200-315" )
ASSET_TAG=$(/opt/dmidecode/sbin/dmidecode | grep -i "asset tag.*_fff$" | cut -f2 -d "_" | cut -f1-3 -d "-" | head -1)
for KNOWN_TAG in "${KNOWN_TAGS[@]}"; do
if [ "$ASSET_TAG" = "$KNOWN_TAG" ]; then
echo "SIKA"
echo "Machine type: Intel Sika"
hdparm -W1 /dev/sda
break
fi
done
}

If it is, it enables a write cache.

The script has even more options that are currently impossible on a web tier...

this is also harmless, and it just moves on to complete what is needed to start the services.

[AnthonyFualdes]

Thanks Edward for your quick, complete and very useful answer. My customer will be reassured to know that there is no impact.