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Article Id 334297
Description 'Unsupported Platform' Error when Generating Package Manifest
Scope When running the following command in the Lacework CLI
Solution

When running the following command in the Lacework CLI, the following error is output:

lacework vulnerability host generate-pkg-manifest
...
ERROR unable to generate package manifest: unsupported platform

This error will occur on any supported platform (i.e. Windows/Linux) that does not have a package manager. Ex: Flatcar, Google COOS

 

Lacework collects the package information from each host with an installed agent.  Software packages are assessed by package managers such as dpkg, apt, and yum.  Some distributions of the Linux OS do not have a package manager such as Flatcar or Google COOS.  If you try to run a scan with Lacework CLI or try to collect a package manifest, you will see the error above due to the OS not having any package managers.

 

Once you have confirmed that your OS is supported and a package manager is installed, Lacework should be able to run a host vulnerability package scan.

 

 

For Vulnerability Assessment, please take a look at the supported Hosts using the links below.

 

Host Vulnerability Scan information:

https://docs.lacework.com/console/host-vulnerability-assessment-overview#supported-operating-systems

 

Supported Hosts:

https://docs.lacework.net/onboarding/before-you-start-agentless-workload-scanning



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