<font size=2 face="Ebrima">IBM BigFix Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
released a task to help identify if your Red Hat Enterprise Linux endpoints
have YUM updates that must be installed. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima">When you run the <b>ID 39: YUM: Check Available
Package Updates</b> task, a column is added in the <i>YUM Logs</i> analysis
which shows if your endpoints have updates that must be installed. Ensure
that the YUM packages are available in your repository since the the task
uses the repository in your deployment. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima">This enhancement is supported on the following
sites:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Patches for RHEL 6 - Native Tools site</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Patches for RHEL 7 </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima"><b>Highlights</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Analysis ID 28: YUM Logs</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Task ID 39: YUM: Check Available Package
Updates </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima"><b>Actions to take</b></font>
<ol>
<li value=1><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Ensure that the YUM Logs analysis
is activated. </font>
<li value=2><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Ensure that your endpoint uses a
repository and that the YUM packages are available in your repository.</font>
<li value=3><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Run <i>Task ID 39 - YUM: Check Available
Package Updates</i>, which is found in Patching Support site, version 374.</font>
<li value=4><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold">Go to <i>Patching Support
</i></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman"><i>> </i></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><i>Analyses
</i></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman"><i>></i></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><i>
Analysis: YUM Logs</i>. From the <i>Results</i> tab, you can check the
results of the analysis in the <i>YUM check-update</i> output column.</font></ol>
<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima"><b>Published Site Version:</b> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima">Patching Support site version 374.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima"><b>Documentation:</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima">For more information about the task, see
the wiki article: </font><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/Checking%20for%20YUM%20packages%20that%20are%20available%20for%20your%20endpoints"><font size=2 color=blue face="Ebrima">Checking
for YUM packages that are available for your endpoints</font></a><font size=2 face="Ebrima">.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Ebrima"><i>Application Engineering Team <br>
IBM BigFix Patch</i></font>