Common commands used with Patch Management for Linux.

Products

• Patch Management Solution
• Client Management Suite
• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

 Common commands used with Patch Management for Linux.

Resolution

The following commands can be ran on the client:

aex-refreshpolicies: updates policies from the NS

aex-invrulescollector: send Patch Inventories from the client to the NS

aex-sendbasicinv: sends basic inventory from the client to the NS

aex-cta ts: displays the date the client was registered and when it was last checked

aex-cta list: displays the current processes and recent processes / runs

aex-patchinstall -i: Lets the user initiate the Software Update Cycle on the client.

aex-patchutil policy list  Shows status of all current policies on client

 

To get more details in client log file, run the following commands on the client

 

aex-helper agent -s configuration debug_file_size 600 (default is 200)

aex-helper agent -s configuration debug_level devnote (to change back to normal level set debug_level error)

 

To enable Devnote logging run this in Terminal:

--Raise the logging level to debug state.
aex-helper agent -s Configuration debug_level devnote

--Turn off the limit of log size.
aex-helper agent -s Configuration debug_file_size 0

Collect agent logs from:  /opt/altiris/notification/nsagent/var/ 

To Disable devnote logging run this in Terminal:

  aex-helper agent -s "Configuration" debug_level ERROR
  aex-helper agent -s "Configuration" debug_file_size 1024