Bug ID 1126701: Provide caution banner when the system integrity check fails from daily anacron job

Last Modified: Oct 19, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1, 16.1.5.2, 16.1.6, 16.1.6.1

Fixed In:
17.1.0

Opened: Jul 15, 2022

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When the anacron job /etc/cron.daily/integritycheck fails, the failure is logged only to /var/log/secure which might not be easily visible to the user.

Impact

User might not be aware of the system integrity failure and the system will halt or brick on the next reboot.

Conditions

The /etc/libexec/sys-eicheck.py script for system integrity check fails through crontab script /etc/cron.daily/integritycheck.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

If the anacron job integrity check fails, then during the next login a caution is displayed to the user with the message "FIPS SYSTEM VALIDATION FAILED, CHECK /var/log/secure FOR DETAILS" on both Configuration utility and TMSH.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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