Bug ID 714961: antserver creates large temporary file in /tmp directory

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7

Fixed In:
14.1.0, 14.0.0, 13.1.0.8

Opened: Apr 13, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

SWG Analytics (running through the antserver daemon) creates a large temporary file in the /tmp directory due to a lack of write permissions on the appropriate directory.

Impact

/tmp is temporarily populated with a large file that might fill up the directory if it is already close to capacity.

Conditions

-- SWG provisioned. -- Viewing SWG Analytics.

Workaround

There is no workaround at this time.

Fix Information

System now writes to /shared/tmp/ant_server so that it no longer writes to /tmp, so the issue no longer occurs.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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