[BigFix Patch] REMINDER: RHEL 5 will reach its end of life on March 31, 2017

Have you updated to later versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 is reaching its end of life on March 31, 2017. For more information, see https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata.

In line with this, BigFix Patch is no longer providing RHEL 5 content and will end its support in July 2017. We suggest updating to later versions of Red Hat.

Consequently, the Patches for RHEL 5 – Native tools site will be deprecated in July 2017. The site will have ‘Deprecated’ appended to the site name in the License Overview dashboard. For the earlier BigFix
announcement related to the RHEL 5 EOL, see http://bit.ly/2lHdssx.

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Application Engineering team
IBM BigFix Patch

Our organization has recently purchased the Extended Lifecycle Support for RHEL 5. I just wanted to verify that I am reading this correctly. There will be no Official Big Fix content supporting this anymore correct? We are on our own andour options are to create custom content or manually patch?

Thanks,

Darren

Hi, Darren,

Yes, you have read it correctly.

Extended Lifecycle Support is not supported. I suggest opening a Request for Enhancement (RFE) here:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe.

This is a helpful post about opening RFEs: How to ask for IBM product help: PMRs, RFEs, and more.

I’m not sure an RFE would do it - when you purchase extended support from a vendor you typically get an agreement that they provide you with fixes/patches etc. for a fixed period, but the fixes they provide are only within the scope of the agreement.

For Bigfix to provide fixlets to apply these patches implies wider availability, with the patches downloadable from publicly visible locations.