How to manage Livepatch on-prem fleet
Livepatch server stores information about the status of machines attached to it. This can be used to identify machines which failed to apply patches.
$ livepatch-admin report machines <tier> [<patch-version>] [<patch-state>]
The output of this command will contain a list of machines, along with their machine IDs and additional information.
is one of:
- applied
- apply-failed
- unapplied
- needs-check
- nothing-to-apply
- unknown
- check-failed
- applied-with-bug
- Kernel-upgrade-required
Note that the machine IDs correspond to unique livepatch clients. To associate each client system with the machine ID you can run the command below on the client.
$ cat /etc/machine-id