Install the Vulnerable Software Discovery Tool for Red Hat Linux 6 RPM and 7 RPM
Note:This is a sample reference implementation that you can use to help guide your setup.
For information on installing the Vulnerable Software Discovery Tool for Red Hat Linux 6 RPM and 7 RPM, see:
| • | Installing the Vulnerable Software Discovery Tool |
| • | Specifying Proxy Settings for the Scanner (Recommended Method) |
| • | Specifying the LAN Group of the Machine |
| • | Immediately Update the RHEL Agent Configuration |
| • | Uninstalling the Scanner RPM Package |
Installing the Vulnerable Software Discovery Tool
To install the Vulnerable Software Discovery Tool for Red Hat Linux 6 RPM and 7 RPM, perform the following steps.
To Install the Vulnerable Software Discovery Tool for Red Hat Linux 6 RPM and 7 RPM:
| 1. | The 6 RPM tool requires: bash, gzip, sed, gawk, procps, coreutils, glibc(x86-64), libcurl(x86-64), libconfig(x86-64), libuuid(x86-64), yum, yum-security |
The 7 RPM tool requires: bash, sed, gawk, procps, coreutils, glibc(x86-64), libcurl(x86-64), libconfig(x86-64), libuuid(x86-64), yum
| 2. | Login as root at the RHEL machine and install/update the package (the same command line option works for both cases): |
su root
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck:
Red Hat 7 RPM: yum install <path>/svmscan_linux-8.x.xxx-x.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat 6 RPM: yum install <path>/svmscan_linux-8.x.xxx-x.el6.x86_64.rpm
Specifying Proxy Settings for the Scanner (Recommended Method)
You can update the proxy setting to override the environment variables.
To specify proxy settings for the scanner:
| 1. | Update the proxy setting in the configuration file /etc/csia/svmscan_conf |
| 2. | Login as root and restart the scanner service: |
su root
service com.flexera.svmscan restart (RHEL 6)
OR
systemctl restart com.flexera.svmscan (RHEL 7)
Specifying the LAN Group of the Machine
This setting will be overridden if the DNS domain name of the machine is publicly available (check with the “dnsdomainname” command).
To specify the LAN group of the machine:
| 1. | Update the LanGroup setting in the configuration file /etc/csia/svmscan_conf |
| 2. | Login as root and restart the scanner service: |
su root
service com.flexera.svmscan restart (RHEL 6)
OR
systemctl restart com.flexera.svmscan (RHEL 7)
Immediately Update the RHEL Agent Configuration
If you have set the Agent check-in time to, for example, 1 day, it will be 1 day until the RHEL Agent picks up any configuration changes. If you want the RHEL Agent to immediately adapt to configuration changes, you can use the commands below to accomplish this by simply restarting the Agent service.
To immediately update the RHEL agent configuration:
| 1. | Login as root and restart the scanner service: |
su root
service com.flexera.svmscan restart (RHEL 6)
OR
systemctl restart com.flexera.svmscan (RHEL 7)
Uninstalling the Scanner RPM Package
To uninstall the scanner RPM package, perform the following steps.
To uninstall the scanner RPM package;
| 1. | Login as root and uninstall the scanner RPM package: |
su root
yum erase svmscan_linux.x86_64