How to verify a third party patch has been installed successfully on Authentication Manager 8.1
2 years ago
Originally Published: 2016-05-19
Article Number
000066268
Applies To
SA Product Set:  SecurID
RSA Product/Service Type:  Authentication Manager
RSA Version/Condition:  8.1
Issue
The Third party patches 1 or 2 are mainly upgrading packages on the OS (unlike normal patches), And when they are installed no records are shown in the Operations Console to verify if they have been installed successfully.
Resolution
To verify that the Third party patch installation went fine open an SSH session to the AM server you have installed the Third party patch on, and run the below command: 
# rpm -qa --last

The output of the command shows the history of rpm packages' installations and upgrades with the timestamp of each installation/upgrade.

If the installation was successful, the output should show upgrades for kernel, clamav, openssl, and some other packages on the date you applied the upgrade.

To verify if a specific package was upgraded by the Third party patch you can run the below command:
# rpm -qa --last | grep <package_name>

e.g.:
# rpm -qa --last | grep clamav