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Post-Installation Guide | Updating RLC-H

Getting Started with RLC-Hardened (First Boot)

After booting up your newly installed or deployed RLC-Hardened (RLC-H) system, there are a few important setup tasks to ensure that your server is properly enrolled, entitled, and updated.

Depot Login and System Enrollment

  1. Log in to your RLC-H server using the username/password you created during installation or deployment.

  2. Confirm that the Depot utility is installed by running:

    rpm -q depot
depot-v1.*

  3. Authenticate your system with CIQ’s Depot service:

    sudo depot login -u <DEPOT_USERNAME> -t <TOKEN>
Enrolled to https://depot.ciq.com

  4. Verify available products:

    sudo depot list
PRODUCT_ID | PRODUCT_NAME                      | ENABLED
rlc-h-9    | Rocky Linux 9 from CIQ - Hardened | no

Enable Entitlements

  1. Enable access to the Hardened product entitlement:

    sudo depot enable
Created DNF configuration: /etc/yum.repos.d/depot-rlc-h-9.repo

  2. Confirm successful enablement:

    sudo depot list
PRODUCT_ID | PRODUCT_NAME                      | ENABLED
rlc-h-9    | Rocky Linux 9 from CIQ - Hardened | yes

Update RLC-H with DNF

Once your system is enrolled and entitled, you can use DNF to manage software packages. CIQ’s Depot service provides access to both the core Rocky Linux (RLC) repositories and curated Hardened packages for RLC-H.

  1. List configured repositories:

    dnf repolist
repo id                repo name
....<TRUNCATED>....
rlc-extras             Rocky Linux 9 from CIQ Extras (x86_64)
rlc-fasttrack          Rocky Linux 9 from CIQ FastTrack (x86_64)
rlc-h-9-x86_64         Rocky Linux 9 from CIQ - Hardened (x86_64)
rlc-h-9-x86_64-debug   Rocky Linux 9 from CIQ - Hardened (x86_64-debug)

  2. Check for updates across all repos:

    dnf check-update

  3. Check only the Hardened repo (rlc-h-9-x86_64):

    dnf check-update --repo rlc-h-9-x86_64

  4. Apply all updates to your system:

    sudo dnf -y update

Next Steps

Please review the Admin Guides for post-installation configuration and management guides.