liagent 8.18.4 installation on RHEL 7 failed due to systemd 219

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Attempting to install liagent (8.18.4) on a RHEL 7 machine fails with the following:

Error: the package is not compatible with systemd 219. Minimum supported version is systemd 235

Environment

Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.4

Cause

It is not possible to install the 8.18.4 agent on any system which has systemd version lower than 235.

Resolution

Install the 8.18.3 version of the liagent instead which is fully compatible with the Operations for Logs 8.18.4 server.