Installation on Linux / CentOS 8.5 requires libnsl.so.1 to be installed
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Installation on Linux / CentOS 8.5 requires libnsl.so.1 to be installed

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Article ID: 315793

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Products

VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

VMware Smarts Assurance 10.1.5 has not been tested per the release notes on Linux / CentOS 8.5. RHEL8.5 does not have native libnsl.so.1 support. This library is required by smarts and domain logs have errors stating that it can find libnsl.so.1.

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

  1. Verify that libnsl.so.1 is not present on the system

    locate libnsl.so.1

    This legacy library is supplied by
    libnsl.x86_64 : Legacy support library for NIS (libnsl2-1.2.0-2.20180605git4a062cf.el8.x86_64)
  2. Install the following package

    yum install libnsl.x86_64

  3. Restart smarts and verify that the logs are clean
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