Troubleshooting for Unix based systems

Generating support package

In order to generate a support package you can run the next command:

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For more advanced users we offer the following commands:

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This will allow you to save the logs of the containers

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This will run some testes and gather info about your system.

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This command will save the relevant setting from your MDSS instance.

The archives will be created in /etc/mdss/

In addition, we offer the option to export your database if you need to use it for migration or debugging purposes.

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Installation issues

In order to troubleshoot please run LOG_LEVEL=7 [command] where command is the command that has an issue. For example, if MetaDefender for Secure Storage cannot be started please run the following command:

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Running behind a proxy

You will need to edit /etc/mdss/customer.env and add the following environment variables to use a proxy server:

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If a proxy is required to access to docker hub in order to pull MDSS images, then this guide should be followed: https://docs.docker.com/network/proxy/

Unable to remove the network

If you encounter some message regarding your network ( similar to network mdss_stack id xxx has active endpoints ) while you tried to remove or update MDSS, please try to restart docker:

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"Permission denied" while uninstalling

On some Linux distributions that have SELinux enabled by default you may encounter a "Permission denied" message when uninstalling MDSS. The uninstall still completes successfully and only some docker containers might still be left running if mdss -u clean was not executed before the uninstall. This is due to SELinux policies and can be avoided by disabling SELinux temporarily before uninstalling by running:

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