BigFix Patch is pleased to announce support for RHEL 7 Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) on x86_64.
The site called ‘Patches for RHEL 7 Extended Support’ uses yum, which is RHEL 7’s default package manager, and contains content from the following channels for RHEL 7 ELS systems:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (RPMs)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support - Optional (RPMs)
Actions to Take:
The site ‘Patches for RHEL 7 Extended Support’ requires any of the following entitlements:
- Workspace (or Workspace+)
- Enterprise (or Enterprise+ )
- Remediate
- Lifecycle Management Term
- Starter Kit for Lifecycle Management Term
- Security and Compliance Term
- Patch Management Term
- BigFix Extended Patch Add-On for RHEL 5 and 6
- BigFix Extended Patch For RHEL Add-On
Please contact your BigFix representative for access to this Fixlet content.
RHEL 7 ELS site requires BigFix Client version 10.0 Patch 0 (10.0.0.133).
Subscribe to the ‘Patches for RHEL 7 Extended Support’ site from the License Overview Dashboard. If the site is not showing in the License Overview dashboard, update your license from the dashboard by clicking ‘Check for license update’, then run the BigFix Administration Tool.
Users of the RHSM Download Cacher will need to update to version 1.0.9.1:
• Windows - http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/util/RHSMDownloadCacher.exe
• Linux - http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/util/RHSMDownloadCacher-linux.tar.gz
Published Sites:
- Patches for RHEL 7 Extended Support, site version: 23
- Patching Support, site version: 1135
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