Walkthrough: Basic Red Hat Linux Patch Analysis - Documentation for Truesight Server Automation 23.1
This Topic Walks You Through the Process of Using Truesight Server Automation to Analyze the Red Hat Linux Systems in Your Environment to See If There Are...
This topic walks you through the process of using TrueSight Server Automation to analyze the Red Hat Linux systems in your environment to see if there are systems that require patches and updates.
This topic includes the following sections:
The video at right demonstrates the process of patch analysis for Linux Red Hat systems.
Introduction to patch management
This topic is intended for system administrators. The goal of this topic is to demonstrate how to perform basic patch analysis for Linux systems using TrueSight Server Automation. In the example shown here, we are analyzing for missing or outdated RPMs and Errata.
Patch management refers to the acquisition, testing, and installation of patches to ensure that servers are always in compliance with organizational policies.
Due to the number of servers being managed, multiplied by the vast amount of patches released by the software and OS vendors, patch management has become one of the most time consuming tasks for many IT organizations. TrueSight Server Automation automates the process of building and maintaining a patch repository, analyzing target servers, and, if necessary, packaging and deploying patches. At the end of the process, reports are available to show compliance.
Patch management in TrueSight Server Automation consists of two primary tasks:
- Patch analysis—The process of figuring out which systems need which patches.
- Patch remediation—Delivering the necessary fixes to those systems. Remediation is described in a separate walkthrough.
TrueSight Server Automation supports analysis, download, and deployment of patches for all of the major operating systems.
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What does this walkthrough show?
This walkthrough shows how to use a Patch Analysis Job to identify missing critical patches on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 servers. The Patch Analysis Job created in the walkthrough:
- Is based on an existing patch catalog
- Uses Update mode (to identify missing or outdated patches)
- Uses a single include list based on the patch smart group set up in the walkthrough for creating a Red Hat patch catalog.
- Does not create "remediation artifacts," which are created in a later walkthrough
- Sets up notifications for the administrator in charge of Windows patching
- Runs on a recurring schedule to obtain the latest patches
The walkthrough also shows how to view Patch Analysis results for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 systems and to determine which critical patches need to be applied.
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