How to run Intelligent Updater on SSIM

Products

• Security Information Manager

Issue/Introduction

You would like to know how to run Intelligent Updater (IU) on SSIM.

Symptoms
When you run the IU, you may see one of these errors:

ERROR: Required utility missing: uncompress
ERROR: Required utility missing: uudecode

 

Cause

To run IU on SSIM, uncompress will need to be linked to zcat and you will need to install uudecode.

Resolution

You can use the following process to make IU run on SSIM.
 

1. Connect to the SSIM appliance using an application like WinSCP as the db2admin user.
2. Create a directory of /tmp/IU
3. Copy the uudecode and uudecode.md5 files to /tmp/IU
4. Connect to the SSIM appliance using an application like putty as the db2admin user.
5. su -
6. <enter root's password>
7. cd /tmp/IU
8. md5sum -c uudecode.md5
9. Verify that the result is "uudecode OK".
10. cp uudecode /usr/bin/uudecode
11. chmod 0755 /usr/bin/uudecode
12. ln -s /bin/zcat /usr/sbin/uncompress

You should now be able to run IU.