Installing interim fixes from IBM Fix Central on Linux hosts

After you install or upgrade IBM® Spectrum Symphony on Linux®, use IBM Fix Central to download any interim fixes that are recommended for IBM Spectrum Symphony on Linux. You can install and manage interim fixes by using the egoinstallfixes and pversions commands.

Interim fixes for IBM Spectrum Symphony are available on IBM Fix Central or by contacting your IBM Support representative. Typically, you download these interim fixes, then use the egoinstallfixes command to install and manage those fixes on Linux hosts in your cluster. The egoinstallfixes command enables you to complete the following tasks:

Install fixes, which include:
- checking the system, backing up the current files
- deleting any files that the IBM Spectrum Symphony cluster no longer requires (these files might have been installed with IBM Spectrum Symphony, or applied during an IBM Spectrum Symphony fix)
- installing the specified fix packages on your existing IBM Spectrum Symphony cluster
- Also, if the command detects a pre-script or post-script file within the fix package, it runs the scripts as necessary. These scripts can contain custom actions to be completed before or after applying the fix.
Check fix packages, without installing them. This preliminary check determines whether your existing cluster is compatible with the fix you want to install, verifies that the user account has appropriate permissions, and lists files that are overwritten by and added by the fix.
Roll back the most recent fix (either by fix package name or by build number) so that your host returns to its original state before installing the fix.

Use the egoinstallfixes command only on Linux hosts; to manage fixes on Windows, refer to the readme file that is bundled with the fix you want to install.

Installing interim fixes

Use the egoinstallfixes command to install or roll back interim fixes for your IBM Spectrum Symphony installation on a Linux host. For command syntax and option details, see egoinstallfixes.

a. To run the egoinstallfixes command, your Linux host must include the ed Linux line-oriented text editor.

b. To run the egoinstallfixes command remotely, note the following considerations:
- Set the full path and file name to the environment file that properly defines your EGO_TOP and EGO_CONFDIR parameters by running the command with the -f env_file option.
- Force pseudo-tty allocation to that remote host by prefacing the egoinstallfixes command with the ssh -t remote_hostname command.
- Surround the command syntax with quotation marks ().
  
  Here is an example of using the egoinstallfixes command from your local host to apply the sym-version_x86_64_build123456.tar.gz package to a remote host called abc123, and specifying the /home/egoadmin/cluster.env location for the -f option:
  
  ssh -t abc123 /opt/ibm/spectrumcomputing/3.9/install/egoinstallfixes -f /home/egoadmin/cluster.env sym-version_x86_64_build123456.tar.gz
After you run the egoinstallfixes command to successfully install fixes on your local Linux host, use the pversions command to query whether your fixes are installed on that host. For command syntax and option details, see pversions for Linux.
To view the installed and active components on your entire cluster, use the Menu icon System & Services > Software Components > Installed and Active Software Components page within the cluster management console. For more information, see Determining installed and active software components.

For more background information, see Installing and configuring IBM Spectrum Symphony.