IBM BigFix Inventory: Content Release: Application Update 9.2.11 published 2018-03-27

My installation of BFI 9.2.9 on RHEL is not applicable, and I have narrowed it down to the following applicability statement:

Q: name of effective user of process "BESClient"
A: root
E: Singular expression refers to non-unique object.
T: 7337

The statement is used in 2 of the 6 Relevance statements. Is this a known issue?

Q: (name of user of it) of processes "BESClient"
A: root
A: nobody
T: 12578

Q: (name of it, name of user of it, command line arguments of it) of process whose (name of user of it equals "nobody")
A: BESClient, nobody, -RPMHelper
T: 16270

The RPMHelper process can be disabled as a workaround for this (I would suspect) but create the following potential issue, detailed in this link:

Disabling the child will cause the client process to directly access the RPM database,exposing the client to risk of RPM-related deadlock.

Also of note is this thread to which I also responded: Client Setting BES Client inspector RPMDisableHelper - #2 by mxalvis

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