BigFix helps reduce the time, cost, and risk of managing virtually any mix of endpoints leveraging out-of-the-box automation scripts. It streamlines asset discovery, software distribution, and power management. It also provides the critical capability to manage and secure servers–whether they’re physical, virtual, or remotely located.
This plugin includes a step to create and start an action in IBM BigFix. The plugin uses the REST API to integrate with BigFix.
This plugin works with BigFix version 9.0 or later.
The BigFix server must be accessible from the HCL Launch agent.
See Installing plugins in HCL Launch for installing and removing plugins.
The following table describes the changes made in each plugin version.
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Initial release. |
To use this plugin, create a component to define the BigFix artifacts to be used. For more information, see Creating components topic in the product documentation.
To access this plug-in in the palette, click IT Management > BigFix.
The following process steps are available in the BigFix plugin.
Create and start an action
| Name | Type | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hostname | String | The host name of the BigFix server. For example: https://bigfix-server:8080 | Yes |
| Password | Password | The password used to access the BigFix server. | Yes |
| Username | String | The user name used to access the BigFix server. | Yes |
| XML Action | String | The XML action to create and start, in BES.xsd format. Alternately, specify the full path to a file that contains the XML action in BES.xsd format. | Yes |
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