SCA Appliance configuration reports ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4

Situation

When running setup-sca, the following error is observed:

...
SCA Agent Configuration        ERROR
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# SCA Agent Configuration Tool v1.0.6
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ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'sles15sp2' (115)

ERROR: Cannot obtain AgentID on sles15sp2-base for sles15sp2
Consider running setup-sdagent on the Broker server.

Runnnig scadb shows the following:

Table: Agents
+-----------+------------+---------------------+---------------------------------+---------------+------------+
| Hostname  | AgentState | AgentEvent          | AgentMessage                    | ThreadsActive | CPUCurrent |
+-----------+------------+---------------------+---------------------------------+---------------+------------+
| sles15sp2 | Configure  | 2021-06-18 15:17:49 | Run sdagent-config on sles15sp2 |             0 |          0 |
+-----------+------------+---------------------+---------------------------------+---------------+------------+

The bind-address is configured in /etc/my.cnf for the loop back address

# grep bind-address /etc/my.cnf
bind-address    = 127.0.0.1

Resolution

Comment out the bind-address from /etc/my.cnf and restart the mariadb.service.

# grep bind-address /etc/my.cnf
#bind-address    = 127.0.0.1

systemctl restart mariadb.service

If you have not started the SCA Appliance Server configuration yet, run: setup-sca.

If you have already run setup-sca and received the errors described, you can manually run sdagent-config and install the cron jobs as follows:

/usr/sbin/sdagent-config -h $HOSTNAME -l $HOSTNAME -p sdagent_password -e root -i 'file:///tmp/'
crontab /usr/share/doc/packages/sca-appliance-broker/combined.cron

Once the configuration is complete and cron jobs have executed at least once, you will see an AgentMessage "Ready."

# scadb
Table: Agents
+-----------+------------+---------------------+--------------+---------------+------------+
| Hostname  | AgentState | AgentEvent          | AgentMessage | ThreadsActive | CPUCurrent |
+-----------+------------+---------------------+--------------+---------------+------------+
| sles15sp2 | Active     | 2021-06-24 18:16:02 | Ready        |             0 |         11 |
+-----------+------------+---------------------+--------------+---------------+------------+

Cause

As of SLES12 SP4, MariaDB changed the /etc/my.cnf bind-address to the localhost. This prevents remote a client access by default for security reasons. See https://mariadb.com/kb/en/configuring-mariadb-for-remote-client-access/.

Status

Reported to Engineering

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