McAfee Agent 5.x for Linux no longer reports a kernel version in the 'OS version' field
Last Modified: 2021-02-17 20:28:44 Etc/GMT
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McAfee Agent 5.x for Linux no longer reports a kernel version in the 'OS version' field
Technical Articles ID:
KB87956
Last Modified: 2021-02-17 20:28:44 Etc/GMT Environment
McAfee Agent (MA) 5.x Linux operating systems For environment information, see KB51573 - Supported platforms for McAfee Agent 5.x. Problem
The kernel version is no longer displayed in the Cause
MA 5.x acquires the Linux operating system version information differently. Issues identified with the method MA 4.x, were corrected in MA 5.x. Previously, MA 4.x called MA 5.x reads the operating version information from /etc/os-release /etc/lsb-release Examples:
SUSE Linux 9.3 (i586) VERSION = 9.3
Linux MADEV-OpenSuse92 2.6.11.4-20a-default #1 Wed Mar 23 21:52:37 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Solution
This design is expected behavior. Future versions of MA continue to use the Workaround
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