Security Analysis Tool (SAT) on GCP - OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

[GlenMacLarty]

I am interested to hear from anyone who has setup the Security Analysis Tool (SAT) on a GCP hosted Databricks environment.

I am in the process of getting the tool setup and I'm experiencing issues running the security_analysis_initializer notebook. The observation is that when the readBestPracticesConfigsFile() call attempts to access the CSV from the workspace location there is a file access error.

The error returned is 

OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/Workspace/Users/<user>/<path>/security-analysis-tool/notebooks/Utils'

This is happening when attempting to load the default best practices CSV from the workspace location. I have been able to work around this by refactoring and using a DBFS location, but I run into this same issue again when the logging utils are being referenced.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

[GlenMacLarty · Accepted solution]

Thanks @Retired_mod,

I have been able to get past this error through recreating the cluster with absolute barebone config. It was potentially a custom configuration (unknown at this time) which was causing this to fail. I will try and reproduce once I get some further issues sorted and provide a summary to the community to help others who may run into similar problems.

Thanks for the tips. I did actually refactor to use the dbfs location, but the issue was manifesting elsewhere in the official SAT code due to the cluster misconfiguration so resolving it was the only option to ensure I wasn't using a customised SAT setup.