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We are in the process of generating and testing updated patches for the Change Guardian appliance channel, which will be re-enabled later this week. This update will include all of the latest SLES 11 patches and will exclude the patch that Intel revoked.

We will continue to issue updated OS patches as they become available (after sufficient testing with our appliance).

Thank you for your patience.

By tomorrow, we will have re-enabled the appliance update channels and published a TID on the Knowledge Base to describe how to remove the affected file, microcode_ctl-1.17-102.83.9.1.x86_64.rpm.

It's not possible to completely remove the microcode_ctl-1.17-102.83.9.1.x86_64.rpm from the update channel, so we recommend that customers remove it manually. (TID link to follow.)

Our testing doesn't show any major risks if you are unable to remove the RPM immediately; we have not observed any performance or stability impacts, and Change Guardian does not have any hard dependencies on this package.

When Intel issues an update to this file, we'll publish it through the channel as part of our regular SUSE OS updates.

Unfortunately, our IT department ran into a problem re-enabling the channels. They are confident they'll resolve the issues in the next 24 hours but cannot make guarantees beyond that.

Here's a TID to describe how to remove the microcode_ctl RPM from a Change Guardian appliance. (Look past the references to Sentinel; the same steps apply.) https://www.netiq.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7022578

Update: The channel is re-enabled, but there is a sync process that is scheduled to happen overnight. All should be normal by this time tomorrow, if not earlier.

CeeDubbVA;2475173 wrote:

Here's a TID to describe how to remove the microcode_ctl RPM from a Change Guardian appliance. (Look past the references to Sentinel; the same steps apply.) https://www.netiq.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7022578

NOTE: For CG, use the command “rpm -e --nodeps microcode_ctl-1.17-102.83.9.1” only. Do not use the zypper command in that TID because it interferes with some necessary post-upgrade scripts, and the service won't start properly.

There's a CG-specific TID now at https://www.netiq.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7022579.