Technical bulletin: Hotfix for Vendor Patch Content

A hotfix is now available for TrueSight Server Automation 22.2 to address the following issues:

• The Vendor Patch Content Job for HP-UX fails due to Perl taint issue or permission errors.
  This issue occurs when the low privilege user (bluser) in enabled (default) on the Application Server. You can disable it by using the  BLASAdmin parameter, EnableLowPrivUser in the Appserver module. For more information, see Restricting-access-to-the-Application-Server-file-system.
• You cannot generate the Vendor Patch Content reports in TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation even though the nsh load-patch-content.nsh script to install the Vendor Patch Content executes successfully.

Downloading and applying the hotfix

Do the following:

1. Log on to the server where TrueSight Server Automation is installed.

2. Download the Vendor Patch Content hotfix files (TrueSight-ServerAutomation-Vendor-Patch-Content-22.2-HF.zip) from the Patches tab on EPD.

3. Install the Vendor Patch Content as described in Performing-the-installation-of-Vendor-Patch-Content.

(Optional) Generating Vendor Patch Content reports

1. Configure the Vendor Patch Content. 

2. Download and apply the hotfix for TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation. For instructions, see Technical bulletin: Hotfix for Vendor Patch Content reports.

3. Run the out-of-the-box Vendor Patch Content reports.
   For information about running reports, see Running out-of-the-box reports. For information about reports, see Vendor Patch Content reports.