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Patch for Amazon Linux 2 User's Guide
BigFix® Patch for Amazon Linux™ provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Amazon Linux 2 endpoints.
Overview
BigFix Patch for Amazon Linux 2 keeps your Linux™ clients current with the latest updates and service packs.
Supported platforms and updates
BigFix Patch for Amazon Linux 2 provides Fixlets for Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisories, Fix Advisories, and Enhancement Advisories on Amazon Linux 2 platforms.

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  - Overview
    BigFix Patch for Amazon Linux 2 keeps your Linux™ clients current with the latest updates and service packs.
    - Supported platforms and updates
      BigFix Patch for Amazon Linux 2 provides Fixlets for Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisories, Fix Advisories, and Enhancement Advisories on Amazon Linux 2 platforms.
    - Supported Amazon Linux 2 repositories
      BigFix Patch for Amazon Linux 2 supports the packages in several Amazon Linux 2 repositories.
    - Site subscription
      Sites are collections of Fixlet messages that are created internally by you, by HCL, or by vendors.
    - Patching method
      BigFix offers more flexibility to the patch management solution by using native tools.
  - Using the download plug-in for Amazon Linux 2
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  - YUM transaction management
    View YUM transaction history and manage transactions through the YUM Transaction History dashboard, which works with Amazon Linux 2.
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- Supersedence for Non-Windows
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Supported platforms and updates

BigFix Patch for Amazon Linux 2 provides Fixlets for Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisories, Fix Advisories, and Enhancement Advisories on Amazon Linux 2 platforms.

Table 1. Supported platforms and patches for BigFix Patch for Amazon Linux 2
The following table lists the supported platforms and the corresponding sites that contains the Fixlets for patching.
Supported Platform	Fixlet Site Name	Type of Update
Amazon Linux 2 (x86_64)	Patches for Amazon Linux 2	See Supported Amazon Linux 2 repositories (on page 8) to view the list of repositories that contain the supported packages.

BigFix generates Fixlet content based on the Amazon Linux 2 advisories published at https://alas.aws.amazon.com/alas2.html.

Important: BigFix does not generate content for packages that are released without an official Amazon Linux 2 advisory.

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