Title.

Agent for HP-UX 11.23 Itanium available

Date

29^th June 2007

Introduction

This Bulletin introduces the availability of a new Assuria Auditor agent for HP-UX 11.23 running on Intel Itanium processors. 

Details

The target platforms for this agent are HP-UX 11.23 running on the Intel Itanium architecture. The agent has been validated on these target platforms, and the check payload tailored for them.

This Agent is a release tested to Level 1 Support (for definition see

http://www.assuria.com/platform-support-levels.htm) on HP-UX 11.23 on ia64  (Itanium) platforms.

The Agent is in the format used by the native HP-UX software package control mechanism.

The agent is fully compatible with the Assuria Auditor range of products, and is managed by the Assuria Auditor Console.

Note that if you have previously installed a beta version of this agent, you must first de-install the beta version before installing this version.

Download

The agent can be downloaded from the Products menu entry at AssuriaOnline (https://www.assuriaonline.com/assuriaonline) in the normal manner.

Installation

Download (save) the zipped depot file.

Unzip the depot file:

    [/usr/contrib/bin/]gunzip <SAVED-PATH>/Assuria-Agent-HPUXia64-au58.depot.gz

Install the Agent software package using the swinstall command:

    [/usr/sbin/]swinstall –s <PKG-PATH>/Assuria-Agent-HPUXia64-au58.depot

Enter the interactive mode of swinstall to mark the Assuria-Auditor package and

select the Install action.

Change to the directory of the installed location of the Agent, ensure that you

have superuser privileges and run the configuration script:

    cd <AGENT-PATH> [/opt/sysscan for standard default installation]

    su (OR you may use sudo, if appropriately configured)

    ./Configure.sh.

De-installation

Ensure that you have superuser privileges and stop the Agent service:

    su (OR you may use sudo, if appropriately configured)

    /sbin/rc2.d/S999sysscan stop

Change to the directory of the installed location of the Agent, ensure that you

have superuser privileges and remove the Agent:

    cd <AGENT-PATH>

    su (OR you may use sudo, if appropriately configured)

    ./remove_sysscan.sh

Remove the Agent software package using the swremove command:

        EITHER     [/usr/sbin/]swremove Assuria-Auditor

        OR            [/usr/sbin/]swremove –i

                        then interactively mark and remove Assuria-Auditor

Support

If you have any questions about, or problems with, this Agent then contact  support@assuria.com.