Recommended update for amazon-ssm-agent

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2017:3248-1
Rating: low
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Affected Products:
  • Public Cloud Module 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for amazon-ssm-agent provides version 2.2.45.0 and brings the following fixes and improvements:

  • Added versioning support for Parameter Store.
  • Added additional gatherers for inventory, including windows service gatherer, windows registry gatherer, file metadata gatherer, windows role gatherer.
  • Added support for aws:downloadContent plugin to download content from GitHub, S3 and documents from SSM documents.
  • Added support for aws:runDocument plugin to execute SSM documents.
  • Improved speed of initial association application on boot.
  • Various aws:configurePackage service integration changes.
  • Improved home directory detection in non-x64 linux platforms to address cases where shared AWS SDK credentials were not available in on-prem instances.
  • Added exponential backoff in bucket region check for s3 upload.
  • Fixed an issue with orchestration directory cleanup for RunCommand.
  • Support for command execution out-of-process

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Public Cloud Module 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-12-2017-2025=1

Package List:

  • Public Cloud Module 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • amazon-ssm-agent-2.2.45.0-4.12.1

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