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Does Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux support GPFS and RHEL 6.x?

Hi all,

We are running various servers with legacy RHEL 6 OS and GPFS as the underlying operating system. Does Sophos support both requirements?

Thanks

An



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  • Hello An,

    You're talking about Sophos 9.x or one of the Central offerings? Just curious, what exactly is your need?

    RHEL 6 support has been retired Nov 2020, AFAIK (though the answer is pointless) GPFS isn't on the list of supported file systems.

    Christian

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  • Hello An,

    You're talking about Sophos 9.x or one of the Central offerings? Just curious, what exactly is your need?

    RHEL 6 support has been retired Nov 2020, AFAIK (though the answer is pointless) GPFS isn't on the list of supported file systems.

    Christian

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  • Hi there,

    thanks for the swift reply. We are searching for an on-premise end-point protection / anti-virus solution that is capable to work with RHEL 6.x and GPFS. On top it should be possible to have it run as a daemon.

    I am not entirely familiar with the differences between Sophos 9.x or Central Offerings. Given the rather strict requirements mentioned above I wanted to clarify both requirements first before diving into details.

    However, it seems like that both requirements cannot be fulfilled.

    Thanks!

  • Hello An,

    the on-premise 9.x is anyway EOL mid next year. 
    As you said daemon - do you want "automatic" real-time scans or an API for on-demand scanning?

    Christian

  • FormerMember
    0 FormerMember in reply to QC

    Are you looking to include it into your own code? Like an OPM option?

  • Indeed, we would like to include it into our own code. With respect to daemon I was referring to the AV solution having the signature database in memory all the time instead of loading it into memory whenever it is called. I am not referring to on-access monitoring that would inspect files of a given directory tree based on kernel hooks.

    However, we have both strict requirements to support GPFS and RHEL 6. Hence, I guess Sophos is not a viable solution.

  • FormerMember
    0 FormerMember in reply to An Schall

    We have a dedicated OPM team that helps customers do these sorts of integrations. If you want, I can ask them to reach out to you. 

  • FormerMember
    0 FormerMember in reply to FormerMember

    as a quick note, the element you would use is SUSI. Its our OPM solution that can be bundled into other applications/services 

  • Thanks for the support. However, this would only fly if the two main requirements (support for GPFS and RHEL 6.x) are fulfilled.