Linux Package Management Scripts

Security Manager Plus can be used to detect missing Linux Packages and deploy them. SMP uses the target system's package management tool (up2date for RHEL, aptitude for Debian, yum for CentOS) to detect / deploy the packages that needs update.

Scanning and deployment for RHEL/Debian/CentOS systems
1. Edit kickstart.sh and provide RHN Account details/Proxy Details. It is enough if these details are provided. Missing package detection and deployment are taken care in scan and install scripts.
For other Distributions
1. Edit kickstart.sh and handle the commands that are needed to configure the package management tool
2. Test kickstart.sh on a system and see if you are able to successfully configure the package management tool
3. Edit scan.sh and handle the command that will fetch the list of missing packages
4. Test scan.sh on a system and see if you are able to see the list of packages that needs update.
5. Edit install.sh and handle the command that will install the missing package. Test the script
Scan the Assets
1. The Scan Results view will list missing packages. You can deploy the missing packages from there.

Prerequisites

In order to use SMP's Linux patch deployment feature, you must ensure that you have a valid support and update subscription license with the different Linux distributions, wherever applicable. It is important that you provide the username/password details for a valid subscription account for the systems to be patched correctly.

Since SMP relies on the target system's package management tools mentioned above, it is important that all these tools are installed and made available for use on each of the target systems.