Bug ID 624362: VCMP guest /shared file system growth due to /shared/tmp/guestagentd.out file

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.3.2

Opened: Oct 21, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

/shared disk usage growth and the diskmonitor can alarm when percent of disk usage reaches the configured threshold.

Impact

/shared filesystem can fill and cause alerting and inability to copy files such as .iso to /shared.

Conditions

VCMP guest, overtime /shared/tmp/guestagentd.out grows and not rotated.

Workaround

1. periodically delete the non-critical file /shared/tmp/guestagentd.out OR, 2. bigstart stop guestagentd (this will disable vcmp health feature on the host)

Fix Information

The guestagentd logs no longer fill the tmp file.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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