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Release of Guardium Data Protection patch 12.0p144

Release Notes


Abstract

This technical note provides guidance for installing IBM Guardium Data Protection patch 12.0p144, including resolved or known issues, or notices associated with the patch.

Content

Patch information
  • Patch file name: SqlGuard-12.0p144.tgz.enc.sig
  • MD5 checksum: 1dd5f12ca953cbffecdf3736bcb7d2d5
 

Finding the patch

  1. Select the following options to download this patch on the IBM Fix Central website and click Continue.
    • Product selector: IBM Security Guardium
    • Installed Version: 12.1
    • Platform: All
  2. On the "Identify fixes" page, select Browse for fixes and click Continue.
  3. On the "Select fixes" page, select Other Patch. Then, enter the patch information in the Filter fix details field to locate the patch.
 
For information about Guardium patch types and naming conventions, see the Understanding Guardium patch types and patch names support document.
 
 
Prerequisites
Guardium Data Protection 12.0p140 (see release note)
 
 
Attention
 
This ad-hoc patch is required for any Guardium Installation Manager (GIM)-managed Linux-UNIX or Windows Agents environment before upgrading to the new single-stream agent release packages, Linux-UNIX Agents 12.xp101 or later, and Windows Agents 12.x.p100 or later. 
 
Note: Customers who already upgraded to Guardium 12.2.3 (see release note) or do not use GIM to install and manage agents do not need to apply this ad-hoc patch to use the new single-stream agent release packages.
 

This and other ad-hoc patches that prepare GIM for the new single-stream agent release packages align with specific Guardium appliance versions. Identify your current appliance patch level and apply the corresponding ad-hoc patch before deploying Linux-UNIX Agents version 12.xp101 or later, or Windows Agents version 12.x.p100 or later. For the full list of ad-hoc patches, see Single-stream agent releases. 

Use the following sequence to upgrade to the single-stream agent releases:

  1. Apply the correct ad-hoc patch to the corresponding Guardium appliance version to update the GIM server, making it ready to accept and distribute the single-stream agent releases.
  2. Upload Linux-UNIX Agents 12.xp101 or later, or Windows Agents 12.x.p100 or later, and deploy them by means of the GIM. 


Important: Do not upload Linux-UNIX Agents 12.xp101 or later, or Windows Agents 12.x.p100 or later to a GIM server that does not yet have this appliance patch installed because the bundle will not process correctly.  

For more information, see Single-stream agent releases.
 
 

Installation

Notes:
  • This ad hoc patch restarts the classifier, nanny and Tomcat processes.
  • Do not reboot the appliance while the patch install is in progress. Contact IBM Support if there is an issue with patch installation.
  • When changing the password of CLI and guardcli users in the Guardium command line interface, a password strength warning appears even when strong passwords are not enabled. To remove the strong password checks, execute the CLI command store user strong_password disable.
 
Overview:
  1. Download the patch and extract the compressed package outside the Guardium system.
  2. Review the latest version of the patch release notes just before you install the patch.
  3. Pick a "quiet" or low-traffic time to install the patch on the Guardium system.
  4. Install patches in a top-down manner on all Guardium systems: start with the central manager, then aggregators, then the collectors.
  5. Apply the latest quarterly DPS patch and rapid response DPS patch.
 
For information about installing Guardium Data protection patches, see Installing patches in the Guardium documentation.

 

 
Resolved issues
This patch resolves the following issues.
 
Issue keySummary
  
GRD-128574

Updates Guardium 12.0p140 to resolve GIM server support for new 12.x versioning convention for single-stream agent release packages. Only customers who use GIM to install and manage agents are affected. 

For more information, see Single-stream agent releases.

 

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Document Information

Modified date:
09 July 2026

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ibm17278604

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