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Configuring TDownloader for Linux endpoints

Patch 2.2 introduces support for Red Hat and CentOS Linux endpoints as a Limited Availability feature. For more information about how to configure your Tanium Server for Linux endpoints, consult your TAM.

Overview

To use Patch on Red Hat Linux endpoints, you must configure TDownloader to use certificate authentication for downloads to the Red Hat Satellite server. For more information about TDownloader, see Tanium Core Platform Installation Guide: TDownloader.

The available scanning techniques include Repo Scan and Tanium Scan. For the Repo Scan technique, you can use all repositories from which an endpoint can pull. For the Tanium Scan technique, you must use Red Hat Content Delivery Network, Red Hat Satellite 6 or later, or custom repositories.

Before you begin

Ensure that you meet the following prerequesites:

  • Tanium Platform 7.2.314.3235 or later.
  • Tanium Client 6.0.314.1554 or later.
  • Patch 2.2 or later.
  • Enable the Enable RedHat/CentOS Linux Support option in the Limited Availability Features tab of the Patch Settings .
  • Obtain a valid SSL client certificate and private key and the SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate of the satellite server from the Red Hat, Inc. website. For more information, see Creating a Red Hat certificate for Tanium downloads (login required).

Configure TDownloader

  1. Copy the SSL client private key, client certificate, and satellite server certificate to your Tanium Server.
  2. Ensure that the Tanium Server can reach cdn.redhat.com or the Red Hat Satellite server by name. Verify using the ping command:
    ping cdn.redhat.com or ping rhelpatchsatellite01.prodqa.local
  3. On each Tanium Server, configure TDownloader to use certificate authentication for downloads to the Red Hat Satellite server. For example:
    cmd-prompt>TDownloader.exe add-auth-cert --url https://rhelpatchsatellite01.prodqa.local --cert C:\client-certificate.pem --key C:\client-key.pem
    where:
    • https://rhelpatchsatellite01.prodqa.local is the URL prefix for the satellite server download URLs
    • C:\client-certficate.pem is the client certificate
    • C:\client-key.pem is the client certificate private key
  4. Check the TDownloader config to see that your certificate has been configured.
    cmd-prompt>TDownloader.exe config list
Keys:
  - Auth:
        - Auth.0:
          - Auth.0.Certificate: -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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/g==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
     
  - Auth.0.PrivateKey: (protected)
  - Auth.0.URL: https://rhelpatchsatellite01.prodqa.local
 - LogVerbosityLevel: 41
 - ProxyPassword:
 - ProxyPort:
 - ProxyServer:
 - ProxyType: NONE
 - ProxyUserid:
 - TrustedCertPath: C:\Program Files\Tanium\Tanium Server\Certs\installedcacert.crt
 - TrustedHostList: localhost,tanium.local,win-2012-r2
  5. Add the satellite server PEM-encoded certificate to the certificate file that is configured in TDownloader for the TrustedCertPath. For example:
    cmd-prompt>TDownloader.exe config list
    Keys:
      - Auth:
        - Auth.0:
      - Auth.0.Certificate: -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
    ....
      - TrustedCertPath: C:\Program Files\Tanium\Tanium Server\Certs\installedcacert.crt
    To configure TDownloader to work with the Red Hat content delivery network (CDN), append the following certificate for cdn.redhat.com to the end of the installedcacert.crt file.
    Closed-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----

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