BigFix analysis for kernel with install date

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Hi All,

I am looking for an analysis that could help me display the current kernel running on the linux endpoints along with the date it was installed on the device.

Thanks,

Ravnish Singh

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This relevance might help.

preceding text of first "." of following text of first "-" of (lines of file "/proc/version") as integer | 0

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Hi,

This query is giving me the kernel version. I need the date when kernel was installed on machine. Thanks for the help though!

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There is no native BigFix inspector to directly query the installation date of the active Linux kernel.

To achieve this, you can use a two-step workaround: create a Fixlet that executes a shell command to grab the running kernel's version and install date, saves the result to a text file on the endpoint, and then create an Analysis to read that file back into BigFix.