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Patch for Amazon Linux User's Guide
Discover how 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 endpoints.
Overview
BigFix® Patch for Amazon Linux™ keeps your Linux clients current with the latest updates and service packs.
Supported platforms and updates
BigFix® Patch for Amazon Linux™ provides Fixlets for Amazon Linux Security Advisories, Fix Advisories, and Enhancement Advisories on Amazon Linux platforms.

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BigFix 11 Patch Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Patch documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the BigFix Patch.
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Patch User Guides
Explore how BigFix Patch streamlines automated patch management, enhances vulnerability remediation, and facilitates seamless update deployment from a unified console. This comprehensive solution ensures efficient system maintenance and security, making it an essential tool for IT professionals.
- Patch for Windows User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Windows™ provides Fixlets for Microsoft™ security and non-security patches. Dashboards, wizards, and reports aid you in managing updates for various endpoint devices.
- Patch for AIX User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for AIX® 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 AIX endpoints.
- Patch for VIOS User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for VIOS provides an automated and simplified patching process specifically designed for IBM's AIX Virtual I/O Server (PowerVM VIOS) environments. It allows system administrators to manage and deploy patches efficiently across all PowerVM VIOS endpoints from a single console.
- Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Red Hat Enterprise 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux endpoints.
- Patch for CentOS Linux User's Guide
  Learn about BigFix® Patch for CentOS Linux™ that 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 CentOs endpoints.
- Patch for Alma Linux User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Alma 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 Alma Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Amazon Linux User's Guide
  Discover how 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 endpoints.
  - Overview
    BigFix® Patch for Amazon Linux™ keeps your Linux clients current with the latest updates and service packs.
    - Supported platforms and updates
      BigFix® Patch for Amazon Linux™ provides Fixlets for Amazon Linux Security Advisories, Fix Advisories, and Enhancement Advisories on Amazon Linux platforms.
    - Supported Amazon Linux repositories
      BigFix® Patch for Amazon Linux™ supports the packages in several Amazon Linux 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
    The Amazon Linux sites uses CentOS Plug-in R2 for downloading the packages from the internet and caches it on BigFix server. CentOS Plug-in R2, is an executable program that downloads relevant packages directly from the patch vendor. Fixlets use an internal protocol to communicate with the download plug-in to download files. These Fixlets are based on updates made by the vendor.
  - Using BigFix Patch for Amazon Linux
    BigFix Patch provides a simplified patching process for downloading and installing patches that are relevant to a target endpoint. Use the Fixlets on the Patching Support and the various Amazon Linux Fixlet sites to apply patches to your deployment and also you can view the Amazon Linux bulletin for a specific Fixlet.
  - Multiple-Package Baseline Installation
    BigFix Patch provides a solution to combine the installation of updates for multiple packages in a baseline into a single task, which can reduce the execution time of the baseline.
  - YUM transaction management
    View YUM transaction history and manage transactions through the YUM Transaction History dashboard, which works with Amazon Linux.
  - Custom repositories management
    You can set up your custom repositories to manage patches for Amazon Linux. This solution allows for multiple repositories on the entire deployment.
- Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for SUSE Linux™Enterprise 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 SUSE Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Ubuntu User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu endpoints.
- Patch for Oracle Linux User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Oracle 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 Oracle Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Solaris User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Solaris 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 Solaris endpoints.
- Patch for HP-UX User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for HP-UX 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 HP-UX endpoints.
- Patch for Mac OS X User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix® Patch for Mac OS X 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 Mac OS X endpoints.
- Patch for Debian User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Debian 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 Debian endpoints.
- Patch for Raspbian User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Raspbian provides Fixlets that you use to manage the latest updates and service packs that Raspberry Pi releases. These Fixlets are available through the Patches for Raspbian sites.
- Patch for Rocky Linux User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Rocky 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 Rocky Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Open SUSE Leap 15 User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Open SUSE Leap 15 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 Open SUSE Leap 15 endpoints.
- Patch for VMware ESXi User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for VMware ESXi provides you unified, near real-time visibility to manage patches to all VMware ESXi endpoints from a single console.
- Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager 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 in a virtual environment.
- Extended third-party Windows Application
- Supersedence for Non-Windows
  This topic describes how supersedence works in Patch.
Detailed system requirements
The tables in this section provide detailed information about the system requirements for BigFix 11.
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the BigFix® Patch software and products.
Patch guides in PDF format
Below is a comprehensive list of links to the BigFix Patch user guides available in PDF format, designed to assist users in navigating and utilizing the software effectively:

Supported platforms and updates

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

Table 1. Supported platforms and patches for BigFix Patch for Amazon Linux
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 repositories (on page 8) to view the list of repositories that contain the supported packages.
Amazon Linux 2 (aarch64)	Patches for Amazon Linux 2 Graviton	See Supported Amazon Linux Graviton repositories (on page 8) to view the list of repositories that contain the supported packages.
Amazon Linux 2023 (x86_64)	Patches for Amazon Linux 2023	See Supported Amazon Linux 2023 (x86_64) repositories (on page 8) to view the list of repositories that contain the supported packages.
Amazon Linux 2023 (aarch64)	Patches for Amazon Linux 2023 Graviton	See Supported Amazon Linux 2023 (aarch64) repositories (on page 8) to view the list of repositories that contain the supported packages.
Amazon Linux 2 Extras (x86_64)	Patches for Amazon Linux 2 Extras	See Supported Amazon Linux 2 Extras (x86_64) repositories (on page 8) to view the list of repositories that contain the supported packages.
Amazon Linux 2 Extras (aarch64)	Patches for Amazon Linux 2 Graviton Extras	See Supported Amazon Linux 2 Extras (aarch64) repositories (on page 8) to view the list of repositories that contain the supported packages.

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

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