Redhat Patching via Bigfix - Yum Update

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Hello Team, We planning to use Redhat Patching via Bigfix however we are using simply yum update to patch the servers as we are using satellite server. Any leads how we can run simple Yum update via Bigfix and manage patching?

I have subscribed to redhat patching sites however there are several updates are available to patch servers so wanted your assistance how to handle this.

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Check the below command.
wait /bin/sh -c “yum -y update”

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  1. Register the machines to the Satellite Server
  2. Apply Enable custom repository support - Red Hat Enterprise Linux on those machines
  3. When you apply Fixlets from the Patches Sites it should only use the yum/dnf command and will not try to download the content through the RHSM Plugin

Read about it on the attached link

You can also use the suggested previous command but I'm sure you want to patch the machines with the provided content of HCL but without the RHSM Plugin

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There is a Task in the external site, eg Patches for RHEL 9

Order by ID, it will be very low number and is something like ‘dnf command with download plugin’

However, you need to simply add a client setting to use Satellite instead…. Assuming the endpoints are already registered with Satellite and have repositories enabled.

I can add the client setting name later but something like ‘allow_yumdownloads’

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@gbl888 the Enable custom repository support - Red Hat Enterprise Linux will enable that option

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Thanks @orbiton and @shabircse I am able to patch, however below observations,
1 I need to modify action script to “wait yum -y update” as /bin/sh was not executed by BigFix.

secondly all my fixlet status is failed however return codes are 0 or 1 here, when I checked patching on machine and its completed, not sure whats wrong here.. any leads how to handle this and get correct status?