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Release of Guardium Data Protection universal connector patch 11.0p5003

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Abstract

This technical note provides guidance for installing IBM Guardium Data Protection universal connector patch 11.0p5003, including any new features or enhancements, resolved or known issues, or notices associated with the patch.

Content

Patch information
  • Patch file name: SqlGuard-11.0p5003_UC_Jun_23_2025.tgz.enc.sig
  • MD5 checksum: 793d70c2303470e22cc59d4bf9bcad42
Finding the patch
  1. Select the following options to download this patch on the IBM Fix Central website and click Continue.
    • Product selector: IBM Security Guardium
    • Installed Version: 11.5
    • Platform: All
  2. On the "Identify fixes" page, select Browse for fixes and click Continue.
  3. On the "Select fixes" page, select Appliance patch (GPU and Ad-Hoc). Then, enter the patch information in the Filter fix details field to locate the patch.
For information about Guardium patch types and naming conventions, see the Understanding Guardium patch types and patch names support document.
Prerequisites
Guardium 11.0p500 (see release note)
Installation
Notes:
  • This patch is only for Guardium universal connector customers and can be installed on all releases of Guardium 11.x.
  • Starting with the release of 11.0p555 (see release note), Guardium Data Protection appliance bundle patches no longer include universal connector fixes.
  • Universal connector patches are cumulative, they contain all previous universal connector patches for that major version.
  • This patch restarts the Tomcat processes (through the CLI) .
Overview:
  1. Download the patch and extract the compressed package outside the Guardium system.
  2. Review the latest version of this patch release note just before you install this patch.
  3. Pick a "quiet" or low-traffic time  to install the patch on the Guardium system.
  4. Install patches in a top-down manner on all Guardium systems: start with the central manager, then aggregators, then the collectors.
For information about installing Guardium Data protection patches, see Installing patches in the Guardium documentation.
Resolved issues
This patch resolves the following issues.
Patch
Issue key Summary Known issue (APAR)
11.0p1051
See release note for patch 11.0p1051.
11.0p5003
GRD-89461 After updating the universal connector configuration, no universal connector traffic is captured on the Oracle database. DT426533
Known issues
This patch includes the following known issues.
Issue key Summary
GRD-99229
If no data is captured on the managed unit after applying patch 11.0p5003, restart the sniffer on the managed unit by using the following commands:
For root user: systemctl restart guard-snif
For CLI user: restart inspection-core

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Document Information

Modified date:
27 July 2025

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ibm17238518