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Security APAR Assistant

How it Works 

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Security APAR Assist (SAAssist) is a tool (Open Source) to help System
Administrators manage APARs (Security Fixes) for IBM AIX and IBM PowerVM
environment.

This tool works like Linux "yum" or "apt-get" to manage the security fixes
(CVE and IVs).

SAAssist works as client/server reducing time to verify if fix is applicable,
reducing time to deploy the fix to AIX and VIOS servers, reducing
false-positives, and is not necessary high skill knowledge about AIX
filesets/version management :)

SAAssist works directly with Fix Level Recommendation Tool, the IBM official
website.

The installation and configuration is simple and also can be integrated with
orchestrator or automation software (IBM BigFix, Chef, Puppet, etc)

There are two basic components on SAAssist: SAAssist Server (saassist-server)
and SAAssist Client (saassist-client).
This is an Open Source software licensed under Apache License 2.0.

= Security APAR Assistant simple overview =
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Using Security APAR Assistant example

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= Technical Overview =

```

                                   [ Internet ]------------[ IBM FLRT website ]
                                         |* web proxy
                                         |
                                 ________|________
-c|u   downloads APAR to repos  |                 |
-cv|uv downloads all APARs for  | saassist server | (APAR repository)
       a specific OS version    |_________________|
-flrt  download the FLRT data            |
-l     list all current APARs in repos   |
                                         |
                                         |
                                         |
                                          `----- [  Repository  ]
                                                 [  info, fixes ]
                                                 [  HTTP: :NFS  ]
                                                         |
            .--------------------------------------------'
            |
    ________|_________
    |                 |
    | saassist client | (AIX / PowerVM Logical Partitions)
    |_________________|
            |
            |
            |`---- {preview}  verifies if APAR is applicable & boot required
            |
            |`-----{info}     gets detailed information about APAR (asc file)
            |
            |`-----{install}  installs APAR
            |
             `-----{checkall} checks all APARs applicable to Logical Partition

```

For more details, check out:

- [Security Assistant Server Documentation saassist-server_doc.html]
- [Security Assistant Client Documentation saassist-client_doc.html]


== Need help ? ==

Send me an email: kairo[@]kairo.eti.br

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