Hi Team,
Once we push the oracle fixlets from Bigfix console, how the patch process works in endpoints?
Hi Ramakrishna,
That’s not as easy to answer as you’d think, I’d suggest taking a look at the fixlets you are running to see what they are doing as far as what’s being ran via the agent however as with all patching, a lot of the work happens on the OS itself and typically the fixlet is downloading the source files then running traditional commands on the OS to install them silently.
It’s also worth taking a look at the docs to familiarise yourself with the processing.
Is the question related to Oracle Linux or to Oracle Databases ?
Oracle linux servers not the database servers
Thanks,
We configured plugins to download the patches and initiating actions to install the patches, most of the server’s patches were installed successfully, but some servers we are facing issue, is any dependencies on spacewalk server?
May I know how its works
I believe that the download plugin for OL is only for OL v9 and not OL v8 which requires custom repositories. Are you patching a mix of OL versions ?
Yes we are patching OL8 and 9,we are not using any custom repositories.
You will require custom package repositories for OL v8.
Please confirm that all the failed targets are OL v8, and that all the fixed targets are OL v9.
Check the /var/opt/BESClient/EDRDeployData/EDR_DeploymentResults.txt for more information on the failures.
For OL v9 the download plugin will get the repository metadata from the vendor package repository, then execute dnf to determine dependent packages, then download any dependent RPMs, and finally run dnf again to install all packages.
For OL v8, the endpoint must have local repositories configured, and we just call dnf to install from those pre-configured repos.
Thank you,
Issue with OL8 but all packages completed on some servers and only these packages are getting failed on some OL8 servers.
libblockdev-utils-2.28-7.0.1.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:09:31 AM UTC
libblockdev-swap-2.28-7.0.1.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:09:31 AM UTC
libblockdev-part-2.28-7.0.1.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:09:31 AM UTC
libblockdev-mdraid-2.28-7.0.1.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:09:31 AM UTC
libblockdev-lvm-2.28-7.0.1.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:09:31 AM UTC
libblockdev-loop-2.28-7.0.1.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:09:31 AM UTC
libblockdev-fs-2.28-7.0.1.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:09:31 AM UTC
libblockdev-crypto-2.28-7.0.1.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:09:31 AM UTC
libblockdev-2.28-7.0.1.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:09:31 AM UTC
sqlite-libs-3.26.0-20.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:09:06 AM UTC
sqlite-3.26.0-20.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:09:06 AM UTC
unbound-libs-1.16.2-5.9.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:08:40 AM UTC
python3-unbound-1.16.2-5.9.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:08:40 AM UTC
python3-libs-3.6.8-70.0.1.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:08:14 AM UTC
platform-python-3.6.8-70.0.1.el8_10.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:08:14 AM UTC
sudo-1.9.5p2-1.0.1.el8_10.1.x86_64 Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:07:48 AM UTC
We haven’t got this kind of issues earlier; we were able to patch up to April patches in June Month.
Any changes happened in OL8 recently
Hi,
Oracle 9 and Centos,Redhat and other linux OS uses Download plugins to download packages.
May I know the reason why Oracle Linux 8 doesn’t follow the same pattern? It’s the same thing – free and public.