While executing insights-client --compliance command, it can not find the SCAP profile on client system and the command fails with "XML profile file not found matching"
Issue
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Why are some OpenSCAP profiles not available in more recent version of RHEL even though they were supported on previous versions?
Example: TheStandard System Security Profileis provided byscap-security-guidepackage for RHEL 6.x and RHEL 7.x but it is not available for RHEL8.x -
While executing
insights-client --compliancecommand it fails with below error:# insights-client --compliance XML profile file not found matching ref_id xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_profile_standard -
SCAP Profiles provided by
scap-security-guidepackage for each major (RHEL 6, RHEL 7, RHEL 8) and its minor versions (eg RHEL 6.7, RHEL 7.3) are not matching.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, 7.x, 8.x
- Use of Compliance service within Red Hat Insights (console.redhat.com)
- OpenSCAP
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