RSA NetWitness Yum External Repo Check

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Article Number

000039863

Applies To

RSA Product Set: NetWitness Platform, NetWitness Platform
RSA Product/Service Type: Core Appliance
RSA Version/Condition: 11.4.0.0 and Later
Platform: CentOS 7

Issue

External repos are present in the /etc/yum.repos.d.
Update process fails as external repos are present in /etc/yum.repos.d and the precheck tool status for Yum External Repo Check is Success(warning) or Failure with the error message "External yum repos exists......"

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Remove the external repos that are configured in the following path /etc/yum.repos.d using the following command:
(Only RSA or NW repositories should be present)

rm /etc/yum.repos.d/<external_reponame >

For example:

rm /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-x86_64-kernel.repo

Note: If you want to retain this external repo you can move it into a different folder.

mv /etc/yum.repos.d/<external_reponame >  /location/

For example:

/etc/yum.repos.d/<external_reponame >  /root/