Software Vulnerability Manager (On‑Premises Edition) Red Hat 8 and Red Hat 9 Installation Guide

Flexera’s Software Vulnerability Manager is a Vulnerability and Patch Management Software Solution that completes and targets the Patch Management process. It combines Vulnerability Intelligence, Vulnerability Scanning, and Patch Creation with Patch Deployment Tool Integration to enable targeted, reliable, and cost-efficient Patch Management.

Software Vulnerability Manager On-Premises Edition enables these services on a local server. It only connects to Flexera for vulnerability updates.

This document describes the recommended method for installing Software Vulnerability Manager On-Premises Edition. It may be possible to install the software on operating systems and configurations other than those described. However, these have not been tested and are not supported by Flexera.

Flexera recommends using Red Hat Enterprise Linux and hardware that is natively supported by Red Hat. All major hardware manufacturers ship Linux friendly hardware.

The steps described in this document must be completed in the order in which they are displayed. If certain steps are omitted, or done in the wrong order, it may cause the system to become exposed to various security or functionality issues.