App Control: Does the Prelinking Updater need to be enabled?

Products

• Carbon Black App Control (formerly Cb Protection)

Issue/Introduction

Does the Pre-Linking updater rule need to be enabled?

Environment

App Control Linux Agent: All Versions
 

Resolution

If prelinking is enabled on any servers, this update must be enabled.

Additional Information

VMware Carbon Black highly recommends disabling prelinking for performance reasons. You can verify if prelinking is enabled by checking the following file:

/etc/sysconfig/prelink

And verifying if the value PRELINKING is set to Yes or No