Important This documentation space contains information about PATROL Agents when deployed in a BMC Helix Operations Management environment. If you are a TrueSight Operations Management user, see PATROL Agent 23.4

23.4 enhancements and patches

Review the PATROL Agent 23.4 enhancements for features that will benefit your organization and to understand changes that might impact your users.

For updates in the previous release, see 22.4 enhancements.

BMC applies upgrades as described in the BMC Helix Upgrade policy. BMC applies upgrades and patches during Maintenance windows..

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Known-and-corrected-issues

Release-notes-and-notices


Verifying the IP address when BindToAddress is configured

During startup, the PATROL Agent performs IP validation when BindToAddress is active. The PATROL Agent verifies if the IP address is within the list of server IP address.

If the user enters an invalid IP address in the /AgentSetup/BindToAddress pconfig variable, the PATROL Agent aborts.


Validating the checksum of the DLL

On Windows, the PATROL Agent verifies checksums for the DLL located in the %PATROL_HOME\..\common\security\bin_v3.0\Windows-x86-64 directory. If a checksum mismatch occurs, the PATROL Agent aborts. To bypass this check, set verify_checksum to 0 in the file %PATROL_HOME%\..\common\patrol.d\checksum_file. By default, verify_checksum is set to 1,


 

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