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QRadar: Services do not start after a Dell firmware update

Troubleshooting


Problem

The administrator received firmware update from Dell and after updating firmware QRadar would no longer start as expected.

Symptom

When this error occurs, the logs in /var/log/qradar.error display the following error:


Oct 23 11:00:09 QRADAR4 hostcontext[19681]: Caused by: org.xml.sax. SAXParseException: The value of attribute "hardwareSerial" associated with an element type "HostCapabilities" must not contain the '<' character.


When this issue occurs, the /opt/qradar/conf/capabilities/hostcapabilities.xml file displays: hardwareSerial="<BAD INDEX>"

[{"Product":{"code":"SSBQAC","label":"IBM Security QRadar SIEM"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Component":"Hardware","Platform":[{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"}],"Version":"7.2","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB77","label":"Automation Platform"}}]

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

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swg21969431