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BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
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.
Using Patch Management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Patch using Fixlets

Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
- Patch for Windows User's Guide
  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
  BigFix® for 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
  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.
  - Overview
    BigFix® Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux™ keeps your Linux clients current with the latest updates and service packs.
  - Setup
  - Using Patch Management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    - Patch using Fixlets
      - Patch by using the YUM utility
        Yellow dog Updater, Modified (YUM), the default patch manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, replaces the Endpoint Dependency Resolver (EDR) utilities that Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux previously used. Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux that uses YUM applies to Red Hat Linux Enterprise versions 6 and later.
      - Supersedence
    - Patch using modular Fixlets
      This topic describes how to deploy a modular Fixlets on RHEL8.
  - Manage custom repositories
    Use the RHEL Custom Repository Management dashboard to register and manage standard repositories and satellite repositories.
  - Manage YUM transactions
  - Checking for YUM package updates
    You can identify YUM package updates that you must install in your deployment by using a task.
  - Using RHSM download plug-ins
    The download plug-in 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 the RHSM download cacher
    Use the RHSM download cacher to download and cache x86, x86_64, S390x, ppc64le, ppc64 Red Hat patches in air-gapped environments.
  - 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.
  - Frequently asked questions
    The questions and answers in the section can help you to better understand Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  - Troubleshooting
    You can try several ways to troubleshoot Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This section also has references that are specific to the RHSM enhancements.
- Patch for CentOS Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patch for CentOS 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 CentOs endpoints.
- Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise User's Guide
  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
  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
  BigFix® Patches 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
  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
  BigFix® for 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
  BigFix® for 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
  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 VMware ESXi User's Guide
  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 Raspbian User's Guide
  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.
- Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide

Patch using Fixlets

You can deploy patches from the BigFix Console.

In the Patch Management domain in the console navigation tree, click OS Vendors and click Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Double-click the Fixlet that you want to deploy. Click the tabs at the top of the Fixlet window to review additional details, and then click the appropriate link in the Actions box to start deployment. Click OK.

To view the Red Hat bulletin for a particular Fixlet, select the Click here to view the patch page action to view the patch page.