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Installation

The default installation uses sqlite3 for the django database. To configure mysql or postgresql instead, see the database configuration section.

Supported Install Options

Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy)

curl -sS https://repo.openbytes.ie/openbytes.gpg > /usr/share/keyrings/openbytes.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/openbytes.gpg] https://repo.openbytes.ie/patchman/ubuntu jammy main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/patchman.list
apt update
apt -y install python3-patchman patchman-client
patchman-manage createsuperuser

Debian 12 (bookworm)

curl -sS https://repo.openbytes.ie/openbytes.gpg > /usr/share/keyrings/openbytes.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/openbytes.gpg] https://repo.openbytes.ie/patchman/debian bookworm main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/patchman.list
apt update
apt -y install python3-patchman patchman-client
patchman-manage createsuperuser

CentOS 9

This also applies to Rocky/Alma/RHEL

curl -sS https://repo.openbytes.ie/openbytes.gpg > /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-openbytes
cat <<EOF >> /etc/yum.repos.d/openbytes.repo
[openbytes]
name=openbytes
baseurl=https://repo.openbytes.ie/patchman/el9
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-openbytes
EOF
update-crypto-policies --set DEFAULT:SHA1
dnf -y install epel-release
dnf makecache
dnf -y install patchman patchman-client
systemctl restart httpd
patchman-manage createsuperuser

virtualenv + pip

TBD - not working yet

apt -y install gcc libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev virtualenv python3-dev zlib1g-dev  # (debian/ubuntu)
dnf -y install gcc libxml2-devel libxslt-devel python3-virtualenv              # (centos/rocky/alma)
mkdir /srv/patchman
cd /srv/patchman
virtualenv .
. bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install patchman gunicorn whitenoise==3.3.1
patchman-manage migrate
patchman-manage createsuperuser
gunicorn patchman.wsgi -b 0.0.0.0:80

Source

Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy)

  1. Install dependencies
apt -y install python3-django python3-django-tagging python3-django-extensions \
python3-djangorestframework python3-defusedxml python3-lxml python3-requests \
python3-rpm python3-debian python3-colorama python3-humanize python3-magic \
apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 python3-pip python3-progressbar
  1. Install django-bootstrap3
pip3 install django-bootstrap3
  1. Clone git repo to e.g. /srv/patchman
cd /srv
git clone https://github.com/furlongm/patchman
  1. Copy server settings example file to /etc/patchman
mkdir /etc/patchman
cp /srv/patchman/etc/patchman/local_settings.py /etc/patchman/

Configuration

Patchman Settings

Modify /etc/patchman/local_settings.py to configure patchman.

If installing from source or using virtualenv, the following settings should be configured:

  • ADMINS - set up an admin email address
  • SECRET_KEY - create a random secret key
  • STATIC_ROOT - should point to /srv/patchman/run/static if installing from source

Configure Database

The default database backend is sqlite. However, this is not recommended for production deployments. MySQL or PostgreSQL are better choices.

SQLite

To configure the sqlite database backend:

  1. Create the database directory specified in the settings file:
mkdir -p /var/lib/patchman/db
  1. Modify /etc/patchman/local_settings.py as follows:
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': '/var/lib/patchman/db/patchman.db'
    }
}
  1. Proceed to syncing database.

MySQL

To configure the mysql database backend:

  1. Ensure mysql-server and the python mysql bindings are installed:
apt -y install default-mysql-server python3-mysqldb
  1. Create database and users:
$ mysql

mysql> CREATE DATABASE patchman CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON patchman.* TO patchman@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'changeme';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
  1. Modify /etc/patchman/local_settings.py as follows:
DATABASES = {
   'default': {
       'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
       'NAME': 'patchman',
       'USER': 'patchman',
       'PASSWORD': 'changeme',
       'HOST': '',
       'PORT': '',
       'STORAGE_ENGINE': 'INNODB',
       'CHARSET' : 'utf8'
   }
}
  1. Proceed to syncing database.

PostgreSQL

To configure the postgresql database backend:

  1. Ensure the postgresql server and the python postgres bindings are installed:
apt -y install postgresql python3-psycopg2
  1. Create database and users:
$ sudo su - postgres
$ psql

postgres=# CREATE DATABASE patchman;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres=# CREATE USER patchman WITH PASSWORD 'changeme';
CREATE ROLE
postgres=# ALTER ROLE patchman SET client_encoding TO 'utf8';
ALTER ROLE
postgres=# ALTER ROLE patchman SET default_transaction_isolation TO 'read committed';
ALTER ROLE
postgres=# ALTER ROLE patchman SET timezone TO 'UTC';
ALTER ROLE
postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE patchman to patchman;
GRANT
postgres=# GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA public TO patchman;
GRANT
  1. Modify /etc/patchman/local_settings.py as follows:
DATABASES = {
   'default': {
       'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
       'NAME': 'patchman',
       'USER': 'patchman',
       'PASSWORD': 'changeme',
       'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
       'PORT': '',
       'CHARSET' : 'utf8'
   }
}
  1. Proceed to syncing database.

Sync Database

After configuring a database backend, the django database should be synced:

  1. Initialise the database, perform migrations, create the admin user and collect static files:
patchman-manage makemigrations
patchman-manage migrate --run-syncdb --fake-initial
patchman-manage createsuperuser
patchman-manage collectstatic

N.B. To run patchman-manage when installing from source, run ./manage.py

  1. Restart the web server after syncing the database.

Configure Web Server

Apache

  1. If installing from source, enable mod-wsgi and copy the apache conf file:
a2enmod wsgi
cp /srv/patchman/etc/patchman/apache.conf.example /etc/apache2/conf-available/patchman.conf
a2enconf patchman
  1. Edit the networks allowed to report to apache and reload apache.
vi /etc/apache2/conf-available/patchman.conf
service apache2 reload
  1. If installing from source, allow apache access to the settings and to the sqlite db:
chown -R :www-data /etc/patchman
chmod -R g+r /etc/patchman
chown -R :www-data /var/lib/patchman
chmod -R g+w /var/lib/patchman/db

The django interface should be available at http://127.0.0.1/patchman/

Optional Configuration Items

Cronjobs

Daily cronjob on patchman server

A daily cronjob on the patchman server should be run to process reports, perform database maintenance, check for upstream updates, and find updates for clients.

patchman -a

Daily cronjob on client to send reports to patchman server

patchman-client

Celery

Install Celery for realtime processing of reports from clients:

Ubuntu / Debian

apt -y install python3-celery redis python3-redis python-celery-common
C_FORCE_ROOT=1 celery -b redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0 -A patchman worker -l INFO -E

CentOS / Rocky / Alma

Currently waiting on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2032543

dnf -y install python3-celery redis python3-redis
systemctl restart redis
semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 6379
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
C_FORCE_ROOT=1 celery -b redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0 -A patchman worker -l INFO -E

Add the last command to an initscript (e.g. /etc/rc.local) to make celery persistent over reboot.

Enable celery by adding USE_ASYNC_PROCESSING = True to /etc/patchman/local_settings.py

Memcached

Memcached can optionally be run to reduce the load on the server.

apt -y install memcached python3-pymemcache  # (debian/ubuntu)
dnf -y install memcached python3-pymemcache  # (centos/rocky/alma)
systemctl restart memcached

and add the following to /etc/patchman/local_settings.py

CACHES = {
   'default': {
       'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache',
       'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
        'OPTIONS': {
            'ignore_exc': True,
        },
   }
}

Test Installation

To test the installation, run the client locally on the patchman server:

patchman-client -s http://127.0.0.1/patchman/