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RSA NetWitness New VLC network service is not starting

Issue

While New VLC deployed and network service is not starting with below error.
 
root@VLC ~]# systemctl status network.service
network.service - LSB: Bring up/down networking
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2020-07-02 21:08:50 UTC; 2min 46s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 1002 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start (code=exited, status=6)

Jul 02 21:08:50 VLC systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Bring up/down networking...
Jul 02 21:08:50 VLC systemd[1]: network.service: control process exit...=6
Jul 02 21:08:50 VLC systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Bring up/down ne...g.
Jul 02 21:08:50 VLC systemd[1]: Unit network.service entered failed state.
Jul 02 21:08:50 VLC systemd[1]: network.service failed.
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Cause

This issue is due to incorrect configuration in interface file as BOOTPROTO configured with DHCP.
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# Generated by NetWitness netconfig
DEVICE=eth0
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=DHCP
IPADDR=X.X.X.X
NETMASK=X.X.X.X
GATEWAY=X.X.X.X
NM_CONTROLLED=no
ONBOOT=yes
PEERDNS=yes

Resolution

  1. Please change BOOTPROTO value from DHCP to static as below.


    cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
    # Generated by NetWitness netconfig
    DEVICE=eth0
    TYPE=Ethernet
    BOOTPROTO=static
    IPADDR=X.X.X.X
    NETMASK=X.X.X.X
    GATEWAY=X.X.X.X
    NM_CONTROLLED=no
    ONBOOT=yes
    PEERDNS=yes
  2. Restart network service and verify status using commands.


    systemctl restart network.service
    systemctl status network.service
  3. Now Network service must be running and Configure other details of IPADDR, NETMASK, GATEWAY to access putty.

Product Details

RSA Product Set: RSA NetWitness Logs & Network
RSA Product/Service Type: Core Appliance
RSA Version/Condition: 11.X
Platform: CentOS
O/S Version: 7

Summary

This document outlines the procedure to bring network service running.


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