Thanks Shawn for the clarification…

One last thing I want to mention here is… some of the RHEL boxes in my 
environment are locked down from internet.. .so they will not have access to 
the repository to fetch oscap binaries, and that’s the reason I had raised this 
question. Do you have any better suggestion for this scenario?

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On 4/26/18 1:09 PM, Mohanraj, Bharath wrote:
I tried to download only the oscap rpms by using the below command,
yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=/opt/oscaprpm openscap-scanner

And once the above command is triggered, it downloaded the below bunch of RPMs…
[cid:[email protected]]

My intention here is to get the rpms downloaded, copy it to my other RHEL 
machines that don’t have yum… and directly install the rpms… and I’m interested 
in running the oscap to scan my RHEL machines…

Now, my question here is, should I install all the downloaded RPMs to get the 
oscap scanning work?
The other RPMs contain needed libraries or deprencies of the OpenSCAP tooling.

This all seems very unusual. YUM is installed on *every* RHEL host out of the 
box. Administrators would actively have to remove it for this use case to be 
applicable.

Even if OpenSCAP and associated dependencies were installed through RPMs, YUM 
would still be available (and likely ideal) to install software through.
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