Layer 7 API Gateway: Support Pack for additional OS utilities

Products

• CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

A customer is looking for an install package for one of these utilities. 

• apr
• apr-util 
• at 
• dos2unix 
• expect 
• ftp 
• httpd-tools 
• libpcap 
• lsof 
• mailx 
• mlocate 
• nc 
• rsync 
• sysstat 
• tcl 
• tcpdump 
• telnet 
• traceroute 

Environment

API Gateway 9.x and 10.x

Cause

Due to the lock down nature of the Gateway, we do not offer these out of the box. You will need to install the Support Pack to utilize these utilities. 

Resolution

To obtain a Support pack for Gateway 9.X or 10.X, please open a support ticket.

The support pack is an L7P patch and is installed following the patches guidelines found in the gateway docs:  10.1 Patching using the Menu

Installing the L7P Patch doesn't install the RPMs directly, so once you install the patch through the ssg menu you will then need to install the RPMs individually found in the /opt/SecureSpan/Support/PATCH_NAME" directory.

Directory example: /opt/SecureSpan/Support/Layer7_API_SupportPack_v10.X-CentOS-2023-02-21 

 

You will see the install-support-pack.sh script in the folder with instructions for installing/testing the RPMs. 

Basic install looks like: rpm -Uvh *.rpm

Example: rpm -Uvh telnet-0.17-66.el7.x86_64.rpm 

 

You could run rpm -qa | grep rpm-name to verify the installation.

Example: rpm -qa | grep telnet

It should return something like telnet-0.17-66.el7.x86_64

Additional Information

For Gateway 11 Support Pack Instructions please see the following KB

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=261304