Patch Installed Date and Time - Non-Windows

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Hello All,

Is there a way to find out last installed Date and Time of patches for Non-windows Servers.

Thanks in advance!!

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Hi Manish,

We can customize with non-windows command

Like: RPM -QA --LAST

it will give you patch name and installed date.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/BigFix%20Actions

Regards
Suresh H

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So, you want me to push the above command using fixlet and than I am suppose to create a analyses to fetch the output value .

Please correct me if my understanding is wrong

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yes.

bigfix there no such option to find how many patch installed with date

Regards
Suresh H

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Thanks for the info but it will be manual work.
When ever the team perform patching I have to run the fixlet in-order to store out in Analyses.
I am looking for the log file and any file which is getting modified or updated whenever patching is completed than I can call the output directly through Analyses.

Any help on this will be appreciated!!

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What operating systems do you want to do this with?

If it is possible to read the info from existing files or logs, then you could try to read it directly. Same goes for SQLite dbs.

You could have a fixlet that runs every day or every week and updates a file with the results of a command like that and then pull those results in with an analysis… that way the collection of the data would be automatic.

This is a related idea on windows:

In this case it is looking for missing patches on a regular basis and then reading that back with an analysis.

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Thanks for your response.
Basically I am try to find the last installed patch date from UNIX system.
I can automate the fixlet which will pull the information and store the output in text file and by using analysis I can get back the last patch installed date.
But as the UNIX patching are done quarterly.So,I was thinking not to automate the fixlet/ task.
For this case I was having a thought if anyone can tell me where patch installed history date are stored on UNIX system.So, that I can pull the information directly from log file using analysis.

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What operating system do you want to do this with? This is likely going to be different for every family of Unix/Linux that has a different package manager.

Figuring this out for the OSes you care about will be elsewhere on the web. Once you figure out where the info is stored and how it is stored for the specific OS you care about, then relevance can likely be written against it.

What info do you want to get? Last patch install time?

I can’t help without more information.

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I am looking information for the last patch installed time/Date from Linux,Aix,Hp-UX and SUSE operating system.
Yes if any one can guide where is the information stored then we can easily pull the information through Analysis.