Download Plugin for CENTOS

vicky · September 17, 2015, 6:03am

Hi,

I need to patch my Centos machine via BigFix. I’m not using proxy in my environment and have no idea how to register a plug in for Centos?

Can anyone help?

Regards
Mirza Usama

baixg · September 17, 2015, 6:38am

Hi Vicky,

You can leave the proxy settings blank and click “OK” button. Although you don’t use the proxy, this action will help you setup the plugin properly on bigfix server.

vicky · September 17, 2015, 6:52am

Hi baixg

You mean to say I should’ve leave the entire plugin settings blank?

Thanks

baixg · September 17, 2015, 7:01am

Hi Vicky,

Yes, you are right. Leave all of them blank.

vicky · September 17, 2015, 11:10am

Thanks @baixg plug in registered successfully.

huicdlz · January 14, 2016, 10:37am

Hello Xiaoguang,

I found that the CentOS plug-in can’t download the devtoolset-3-elfutils-libelf-0.161-1.el6.x86_64.rpm.
The plug-in log is like below.
[Thu Jan 14 09:30:48 2016] BigFix CentOS Download Plugin v2.3.5
[Thu Jan 14 09:30:48 2016] Please make sure you have the latest version of this utility.
[Thu Jan 14 09:30:48 2016] Running plugin with DLoad::LWPUAIface
[Thu Jan 14 09:30:52 2016] ERROR: Download for CentOSProtocol://6/570dd57be20521105da1a32b440e184d294149183de17703b7338b1067d46ea0/devtoolset-3-elfutils-libs-0.161-1.el6.x86_64.rpm failed: Request failed: Unable to find any packages named .
[Thu Jan 14 09:30:55 2016] ERROR: Download for CentOSProtocol://6/5a119df3904e921722f32b6b133e8e4f5c63199130c35b823305f3e6a9e879d7/devtoolset-3-elfutils-libelf-0.161-1.el6.x86_64.rpm failed: Request failed: Unable to find any packages named

baixg · January 15, 2016, 7:20am

Hi Huicdlz,

The packages seem from SCLo channel ( http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-3/ ), which we currently don’t support. You can get the description of SCLo channel here https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo .

Here are our supported channels:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.2.0/com.ibm.tem.patch.doc_9.2/Patch_Man/Patch_Man_CentOS/c_supported_packages.html

By the way, which fixlet is it?

In case you need those packages during patching, you can always download manually and cache it on BigFix server.

huicdlz · January 15, 2016, 8:02am

Hello Xiaoguang,
Thanks for your update.
The fixlet is CESA-2015:2504 - Libreport Security Update - CentOS 6 x86_64.

My question is that if we do not support this kind of channel package, for this situation, the customer will always need to manually cache it, am I right?

baixg · January 15, 2016, 9:26am

Hi huicdlz,

I tried in my environment, and i didn’t see those SCLo packages. I think that your system installed additional software from that channel, and they became dependencies for this patch. I’m not sure how you manage those packages, but if you don’t update them first, then yes, you always have to cache those packages on BigFix server manually.