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