Issued:

2011-05-19

Updated:

2011-05-19

RHEA-2011:0670 - new package: sigar

Synopsis

new package: sigar

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new sigar package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The System Information Gatherer and Reporter (SIGAR) is a library and command line tool for accessing operating system and hardware level information across multiple platforms and programming languages.

This enhancement update adds the sigar package to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Note that this package is included as a Technology Preview. (BZ#658887)

All users who require sigar should install this new package.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• sigar-devel-1.6.5-0.1.git833ca18.el6.i686.rpm
• sigar-devel-1.6.5-0.1.git833ca18.el6.x86_64.rpm
• sigar-1.6.5-0.1.git833ca18.el6.i686.rpm
• sigar-1.6.5-0.1.git833ca18.el6.x86_64.rpm
• sigar-debuginfo-1.6.5-0.1.git833ca18.el6.i686.rpm
• sigar-debuginfo-1.6.5-0.1.git833ca18.el6.x86_64.rpm
• sigar-1.6.5-0.1.git833ca18.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.