AIQUM 9.16 and above shows multiple issues during fresh installation on RHEL 9.x due to File Access Policy and Firewall daemons
Applies to
- ActiveIQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) 9.16+
- RedHat Linux (RHEL) 9.x
- File Access Policy Daemon (fapolicyd)
- Firewall daemon (firewalld)
Issue
- AIQUM fresh installation on RHEL 9.x failed even though the pre_install script shows no issue
- Error on screen (also recorded on
/var/log/dnf.log):
[root@AIQUM netapp]# yum localinstall netapp-um-9.18-el9.x86_64.rpmLast metadata expiration check: 0:47:07 ago on Mon 23 Feb 2026 11:33:51 AM CET.
Dependencies resolved.=====================================================================================================================================================================================================Package Architecture Version Repository Size=====================================================================================================================================================================================================Installing:netapp-um x86_64 9.18-2601081010.el9 @commandline 1.8 GTransaction Summary=====================================================================================================================================================================================================Install 1 Package
Total size: 1.8 G
Installed size: 1.9 G
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Package netapp-um-9.18-el9.x86_64.rpm is not signed
Error: GPG check FAILED
[root@AIQUM netapp]#
- Attempting with
--nogpgcheckallows the installation to proceed:yum localinstall netapp-um-9.18-el9.x86_64.rpm --nogpgcheck - However ocie service failed to start after installation:
/var/log/ocie/server.log:
WARN [org.jboss.modules.define] (main) Failed to define class org.jboss.as.server.jmx.PluggableMBeanServer in Module "org.jboss.as.server" version 18.1.2.Final from local module loader @41ee392b (finder: local module finder @1e67a849 (roots: /opt/netapp/essentials/jboss/modules, /opt/netapp/essentials/jboss/modules/system/layers/base)): org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoadError: Error loading module from /opt/netapp/essentials/jboss/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/classfilewriter/main/module.xml
….
Caused by: org.jboss.modules.xml.XmlPullParserException: Failed to add resource root 'unnamed' at path 'jboss-classfilewriter-1.2.5.Final.jar' (position: END_TAG seen ... <resource-root path="jboss-classfilewriter-1.2.5.Final.jar"/>... @29:70) caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/netapp/essentials/jboss/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/classfilewriter/main/jboss-classfilewriter-1.2.5.Final.jar (Operation not permitted)
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Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/netapp/essentials/jboss/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/classfilewriter/main/jboss-classfilewriter-1.2.5.Final.jar (Operation not permitted)