Troubleshooting IBM Security Guardium Configuration and Activation of A-TAP on MongoDB instance: "WARNING: db-base directory <path> does not exist!!!"

Troubleshooting

Problem

When attempting to configure the Application TAP (A-TAP) on a MongoDB node as a way to perform Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) of encrypted client to server communications, you may be presented with the following message:

[<mongo_server> tmp]$ sudo /usr/local/guardium/guard_stap/guardctl --db-instance=<mongo_server_hostname> --db-home=/usr --db-base=/home/mongodb --db-type=mongodb --db-user=mongod store-conf
WARNING: db-base directory /home/mongodb does not exist!!!
WARNING: No Inspection Engine definition found with db_install_dir=/home/mongodb.
         STAP requires that at least one Inspection Engine is defined with
         db_install_dir set to the same value as db_base.
         STAP may not run if this ATAP is activated.

Symptom

When the above error message is presented, it may happen that you won't be able to correctly perform DAM of the desired MongoDB instance, for example, IBM Security Guardium Session reports do not show any traffic being Collected (reports are empty).

Document Location

Worldwide

Operating System

System x:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Troubleshooting IBM Security Guardium Configuration and Activation of A-TAP on MongoDB instance: "WARNING: db-base directory <path> does not exist!!!"