<font size=2 face="Calibri">IBM BigFix Patch is pleased to announce the
release of the native tools site for CentOS 7, called "Patches for
CentOS 7". </font><p><font size=2 face="Calibri">This site contains the content from the
following supported channels for CentOS x86_64 systems:</font><ul><li><font size=2 face="Calibri">Base</font><li><font size=2 face="Calibri">Updates</font><li><font size=2 face="Calibri">Extras</font><li><font size=2 face="Calibri">Fasttrack</font></ul><font size=2 face="Calibri"><b>Actions
to take:</b></font><font size=2> </font><br><ol><li value=1><font size=2 face="Calibri">Subscribe to the new site "Patches
for CentOS 7" from the License Overview dashboard. </font><li value=2><font size=2 face="Calibri">Install the bzip2 utility on the
endpoints to use the patches from the new site. The bzip2 utility decompresses
the metadata file that contains all the package information to the endpoints.<br><br><b>Note:</b> The bzip2 utility may not be included in the CentOS 7 base
installation, therefore manual installation of this compression utility
is required.<br><br>Here are the steps to install the bzip2 utility:</font><ol type=a><li value=1><font size=2 face="Calibri">Use the audit Fixlet named <b>Install
bzip2</b> (ID # 1) to identify the endpoints that require bzip2 utility.</font><font size=2 color=red face="Calibri"></font><li value=2><font size=2 face="Calibri">Download the installation package
from </font><a href="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/bzip2-1.0.6-12.el7.x86_64.rpm"><font size=2 color=blue face="Calibri">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/bzip2-1.0.6-12.el7.x86_64.rpm</font></a><font size=2 face="Calibri">.</font><li value=3><font size=2 face="Calibri">Use the RPM Deployment Wizard (available
from the Linux RPM Patching site) to deploy the package to various endpoints.
<br></font></ol><li value=3><font size=2 face="Calibri">Execute the following</font><font size=2 color=red face="Calibri"></font><font size=2 face="Calibri">actions related to the download plug-in:</font><ul><li><font size=2 face="Calibri">If the CentOS download plug-in has never
been registered before, register it from the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard.</font><li><font size=2 face="Calibri">If the CentOS download plug-in is already
registered, upgrade it to the latest version (2.3.5) from the Manage Download
Plug-ins dashboard. <br></font></ul><font size=2 face="Calibri"><b>Note</b>: The Manage Download
Plug-ins dashboard is available from the Patching Support site.</font></ol><font size=2 face="Calibri"><b>Published
sites:</b></font><font size=2> <br></font><font size=2 face="Calibri">Patches for CentOS 7 site, version 3</font><br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Patching Support site, version 407</font><p><p><font size=2 face="Calibri"><b>Documentation resources: </b></font><br><font size=2 face="Calibri">For the latest IBM BigFix Patch for CenOS
User's Guide, see </font><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/form/anonymous/api/wiki/90553c0b-42eb-4df0-9556-d3c2e0ac4c52/page/a242023f-ff02-43d9-be00-5c4fb10b2b0c/attachment/c6455919-c477-4e29-9405-17da60cbdf6d/media/BigFix_Patch_CentOS_User_Guide_2015Oct9.pdf"><font size=2 color=blue face="Calibri">https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/form/anonymous/api/wiki/90553c0b-42eb-4df0-9556-d3c2e0ac4c52/page/a242023f-ff02-43d9-be00-5c4fb10b2b0c/attachment/c6455919-c477-4e29-9405-17da60cbdf6d/media/BigFix_Patch_CentOS_User_Guide_2015Oct9.pdf</font></a><br><font size=2 face="Calibri"><br>For information about the RPM Deployment Wizard, see</font><a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.2.0/com.ibm.tem.patch.doc_9.2/Patch_Man/Patch_CentOS/c_use_the_rpm_deployment_wizard.html?lang=en"><font size=2 color=blue face="Calibri">http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.2.0/com.ibm.tem.patch.doc_9.2/Patch_Man/Patch_CentOS/c_use_the_rpm_deployment_wizard.html?lang=en</font></a><font size=2 face="Calibri">.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="Calibri">For information about download plug-ins,
see </font><br><a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.2.0/com.ibm.tem.patch.doc_9.2/shared/c_manage_download_plug-ins_centos.html?lang=en"><font size=2 color=blue face="Calibri">http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.2.0/com.ibm.tem.patch.doc_9.2/shared/c_manage_download_plug-ins_centos.html?lang=en</font></a><font size=2 face="Calibri">.<br></font><p><font size=2 face="Calibri"><i>Application Engineering Team<br>IBM BigFix</i></font><p><BR>