OS Package Reporter extension
- Latest Dynatrace
- Extension
- Published Oct 27, 2025
Analyze the OS packages of your hosts to enable vulnerability monitoring.
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Overview
This OneAgent extension collects and forwards the list of installed OS packages across your Linux hosts to support real-time vulnerability detection at the operating system layer. This enables automated matching with known CVEs and supports faster risk assessment and remediation.
Use cases
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Filter and analyze OS vulnerability findings:
Identify specific vulnerabilities and assess the OS layer of their environment against known issues.
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Prioritize remediation:
Identify Red Hat instances with the most findings and available patches.
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Host-level insight:
- View vulnerability findings per host.
- Quickly assess which vulnerabilities affect specific, high-priority hosts.
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Dashboards and automation:
Automate common queries and alerts (for example, top vulnerable hosts last week) to save time and ensure timely notifications of new vulnerabilities.
Requirements
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Versions 5 through 10, inclusive)
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For hosts with limited resources, consider setting the Extension Execution Controller (EEC) performance profile to High limits for optimal coverage and performance.
For details on how to change performance profiles, see About Extensions.
Compatibility information
The initial release supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), with future support planned for additional distributions.
Activation and setup
To use this extension
- Install the extension
- Connect the extension using your access token
- Enable RVA
- View, search, and filter the findings using DQL
Feature sets
When activating your extension using monitoring configuration, you can limit monitoring to one of the feature sets. To work properly the extension has to collect at least one metric after the activation.
In highly segmented networks, feature sets can reflect the segments of your environment. Then, when you create a monitoring configuration, you can select a feature set and a corresponding ActiveGate group that can connect to this particular segment.
All metrics that aren't categorized into any feature set are considered to be the default and are always reported.
A metric inherits the feature set of a subgroup, which in turn inherits the feature set of a group. Also, the feature set defined on the metric level overrides the feature set defined on the subgroup level, which in turn overrides the feature set defined on the group level.
