Patch Agent Command Line Usage
The Patch Agent for Linux, UNIX, and Mac is a command line based application that does not have a user interface.
From the usr/local/patchagent/ directory within terminal, you can enter a variety of commands to control the agent.
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Command |
Description |
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./patchservice info |
Indicates general information about the agent. |
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./patchservice status |
Indicates the status of the agent process. |
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./patchservice daustatus |
Indicates the status of the Discover Applicable Updates task. |
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./patchservice detect |
Starts the detection task. |
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./patchservice stop |
Stops the agent process. |
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./patchservice restart |
Stops and starts the agent process. |
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./patchservice patchdirectory |
Sets the directory where patches will be temporarily downloaded. |
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./patchservice setmacro |
Specifies the macro definitions that should be used by the agent. |
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./patchservice archivelogs |
Archives the agent logs so that they can be sent to Ivanti. |
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./patchservice proxysetup |
Configures your proxy server. |
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./patchservice clearAgentLog |
Clears the agent error log file. |
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./patchservice clearErrLog |
Clears the agent error log file. |
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./patchservice clearDetectLog |
Clears the agent detection log file. |
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./patchservice trimlogs |
Reduces the size of the error, agent, and detect log files. Oldest entries are deleted and the file is truncated at 100,000 lines. |
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./patchservice setagentnice |
Sets the agent's prioritization value. |
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./patchservice help |
Displays the patch server script usage information. |