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RHEL 5.2 support on R2

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Does R2 support the discovery and installation of agents on RHEL 5.2. We continue to get certificate error on 3 servers and the DNS name and machine names are identical. The installation worked flawlessly on RHEL 5.1. I've seen older posts about XPlat not discovering 5.2 correctly so a manual agent install was required. Each error message mentioned that there wasn't enough available entropy, whatever this means. I'd post the exact error messages but I don't have them available at this time. Also, the supported configurations doc says RHEL 5 is supported and doesn't break it down by the decimal, the administrators guide's Appendix A for dependancies specifically mentions only 5.1 not 5.2. This is mis-leading as you don't really know if 5.2 is supported. Does anyone have any input on this?
Thank you
Marc Schmieder- Moved by Robert Hearn Saturday, November 7, 2009 12:48 AM (From:Cross Platform - Red Hat)
- Moved by Jundan Wu Wednesday, October 26, 2011 9:21 PM (From:Cross Platform Solutions for System Center)
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:52 PM
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The discovery script makes no distinction of the minor version of the OS for Red Hat (unlike SLES), so 5.2 should be treated just like 5.
Robert Hearn • Sr. Program Manager
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- Proposed as answer by Robert_Hearn Friday, January 8, 2010 7:20 PM
- Marked as answer by Robert_Hearn Monday, January 18, 2010 5:12 PM
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 12:08 AM
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An entropy error may indicate a problem generating the certificate request. When this happens, the OpenSSL pseudo random number generator (PRNG) requires data from the /dev/*random devices or the entropy gathering daemon (EGD).
It might pay to look at the /dev/*random devices and perhaps check CSR generation on the RHEL server.
Generating CSRs using OpenSSL:
http://info.ssl.com/Article.aspx?id=10082
Matt.Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:31 PM -
Can anyone verify that RHEL 5.2 is supported by R2?
Marc SchmiederTuesday, August 4, 2009 3:58 PM -
The discovery script makes no distinction of the minor version of the OS for Red Hat (unlike SLES), so 5.2 should be treated just like 5.
Robert Hearn • Sr. Program Manager
Customer & Partner Community
System Center Cross Platform & Interop
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- Proposed as answer by Robert_Hearn Friday, January 8, 2010 7:20 PM
- Marked as answer by Robert_Hearn Monday, January 18, 2010 5:12 PM
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 12:08 AM