SL1 PowerFlow powerflowcontrol (pfctl) Command-line Utility Release Notes, version 2.7.9

The SL1 PowerFlow powerflowcontrol (pfctl) command-line utility version 2.7.9 includes updated healthcheck actions and autoheal actions to support Oracle Linux 8 (OL8) and Military Unique Deployment (MUD). This version of the utility is included with the PowerFlow Platform version 3.0.0 release.

For more information about the commands you can run using this utility, see Using the powerflowcontrol (pfctl) Command-line Utility.

Features

This section covers the features that are included in the pfctl command-line utility version 2.7.9:

  • Added updated healthcheck actions and autoheal actions to support Oracle Linux 8 (OL8) and Military Unique Deployment (MUD). Version 2.7.9 of the pfctl utility is included in PowerFlow version 3.0.0.
  • The ispasswd script for changing passwords was deprecated and replaced by the new pfctl password set command. If you use the old ispasswd script, you will get a message telling you to use the new pfctl password set command instead.

To view the latest manuals for the SL1 PowerFlow Platform, see the SL1 PowerFlow page. To view the latest release notes for PowerFlow, see SL1 PowerFlow Release Notes.

Known Issues

This release contains the following known issue:

  • If you get the "Error: No such option: --version Did you mean --json?" error message when running the pfctl --version command, you might have an older version of pfctl that was installed as a different user. To resolve this, be sure to install the powerflowcontrol (pfctl) utility version 2.7.7 as root with sudo, and remove any other versions installed by other users (isadmin or ec2-user):

    su isadmin

    pip3 uninstall -y iservicecontrol

Installing the powerflowcontrol (pfctl) Command-Line Utility

Typically the powerflowcontrol (pfctl) utility is included with the latest version of the PowerFlow Platform. If you need to install a more recent, standalone version of the utility, use the following procedure.

To locate and download the powerflowcontrol (pfctl) utility:

  1. Go to the ScienceLogic Support site at https://support.sciencelogic.com/s/.

  2. Click the Product Downloads tab and select PowerFlow. The PowerFlow page appears.

  3. Click the link for the current release. The Release Version page appears.

  4. In the Release Files section, click the link for the version of PowerFlow Control you want to download. The Release File Details page appears.

  5. Click the Download File button to download the .whl file for the powerflowcontrol utility.

  6. Using WinSCP or another file-transfer utility, copy the .whl file to a directory on the PowerFlow system.

  7. Go to the console of the PowerFlow system or use SSH to access the PowerFlow system.

  8. To install the utility, run the following command:

    sudo pip3 install iservicecontrol-2.7.9-py3-none-any.whl

  9. To check the version number of the utility, run the following command:

    pip3 show iservicecontrol