Bug ID 941357: BIG-IQ AS3 application deployments fail with an invalid RPM error

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IQ Applications(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
7.1.0.1, 7.1.0.2, 7.1.0.3, 7.1.6, 7.1.6.1, 7.1.7, 7.1.7.1, 7.1.7.2, 7.1.8, 7.1.8.1, 7.1.8.2, 7.1.8.3, 7.1.8.4, 7.1.8.5, 7.1.9, 7.1.9.7, 7.1.9.8, 7.1.9.9, 8.0.0, 8.0.0.1

Opened: Aug 31, 2020

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

After an upgrade, AS3 deployments from BIG-IQ produce an error similar to this: Invalid RPM: /usr/lib/dco/packages/f5-appsvcs/f5-appsvcs-3.19.1-1.noarch.rpm; validate global.appSvcs.rpmFilePath in /var/config/rest/config/restjavad.properties.json.

Impact

AS3 Application deployment attempts fail.

Conditions

There is an rpmFilePath set in the /var/config/rest/config/restjavad.properties.json file that is no longer valid.

Workaround

Unless your BIG-IQ system requires a specific AS3 RPM version, the workaround is to simply remove the entire rpmFilePath entry from the /var/config/rest/config/restjavad.properties.json. Removing this entry forces BIG-IQ to use the most recent version of the RPM in /usr/lib/dco/packages/f5-appsvcs. If your BIG-IQ system requires a specific AS3 RPM version, you also need to copy the correct version of the RPM to /usr/lib/dco/packages/f5-appsvcs before BIG-IQ can use it to correctly deploy AS3 applications.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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