Environment
- NetIQ UNIX Agent 7.1
Situation
Some older UNIX systems employ host access control files. If you are using these files to firewall connections (ALL : ALL in /etc/hosts.deny) you will need to add entries to /etc/hosts.allow to enable UNIX Agent communications.
Resolution
To limit Agent access to a certain machine, you can add the following to /etc/hosts.allow replacing <CC>, <MS>, <UNIXAgentManagerConsole> with the correct IP address:
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nqmagt: <MS>
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uagent: <UNIXAgentManagerConsole>
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uvserv: <CC>
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uagentd: <CC>
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uvservd: <CC>
To make the process simpler, you could also add the following to /etc/hosts.allow to allow access to the NetIQ daemons by any IP address:
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nqmagt: ALL
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uagent: ALL
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uvserv: ALL
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uagentd: ALL
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uvservd: ALL
After the changes above, you will need to restart the nqmdaemon, uagent, uvserv daemons on the UNIX machine for these settings to take effect.