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2420372 - Outside Discovery for AIX~7.1 - Operating System and Operating System Version missing in the LMDB

Symptom

The outside discovery for AIX OS is not providing information anymore, in the LMDB, the Operation System and Operating System version are missing:

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In the e2edcc.log in DEBUG mode, you find the following for fields PPMSName and PPMSRelease:

 "[...]

Jan 12, 2017 12:17:30 PM [Thread[ExRun:OutsideDiscovery_1,5,OutsideDiscovery:ExecTG]] Debug [PhysicalHostPushJob] attribute PPMSName = [AIX_64]
Jan 12, 2017 12:17:30 PM [Thread[ExRun:OutsideDiscovery_1,5,OutsideDiscovery:ExecTG]] Debug [PhysicalHostPushJob] attribute OSBits = [64]
Jan 12, 2017 12:17:30 PM [Thread[ExRun:OutsideDiscovery_1,5,OutsideDiscovery:ExecTG]] Debug [PhysicalHostPushJob] attribute KernelVersion = [7100-04-02-1614]
Jan 12, 2017 12:17:30 PM [Thread[ExRun:OutsideDiscovery_1,5,OutsideDiscovery:ExecTG]] Debug [PhysicalHostPushJob] attribute PPMSRelease = [AIX 7.1]
Jan 12, 2017 12:17:30 PM [Thread[ExRun:OutsideDiscovery_1,5,OutsideDiscovery:ExecTG]] Debug [PhysicalHostPushJob] attribute Name = [AIX]
Jan 12, 2017 12:17:30 PM [Thread[ExRun:OutsideDiscovery_1,5,OutsideDiscovery:ExecTG]] Debug [PhysicalHostPushJob] mapping osName [AIX] to osCategory [AIX]
Jan 12, 2017 12:17:30 PM [Thread[ExRun:OutsideDiscovery_1,5,OutsideDiscovery:ExecTG]] Debug [PhysicalHostPushJob] attribute Caption = [IBM AIX 7.1]

[...]"

In the Landscape Browser (http://<Solman FQDN>:<ABAP ICM port>/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/diagls_landscape_browser_app), you search for the affected host in the Hosts tab, the status of the host shows an error:

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Environment

SAP Host Agent 721 P22.

Product

SAP Solution Manager 7.1 ; SAP Solution Manager 7.2

Keywords

Failed to assign os AIX_64~AIX 7.1 to host . Reason: Software Component not found. , KBA , SV-SMG-DIA-APP-OSD , OS & DB Analysis , BC-OP-AIX , IBM AIX , Problem

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