Viewing target network parameter settings

Use the rbagent.exe rad-targetupdate command on the Bare Metal server to view network parameters for a connected Bare Metal target. Verify hostname template resolution (chktemplate), display target variables (gettargetinfo), and review partition changes (getpartitioninfo), with examples and notes for cases lacking PXE boot data.

You can check what network parameters have been set for a Bare Metal target running a rbagent command on the Bare Metal server to which the target is connected. Using a CLI you can:
  • check how a hostname rule will be resolved at deployment time for a specific target
  • view how each variable is resolved for a target
  • check if a partition resize has been defined for a target

Usage of the command rbagent.exe rad-targetupdate

C:\Program Files\BigFix OSD>rbagent.exe rad-targetupdate
<ERR> usage: rad-targetupdate <BomID|IP|MAC|SN|HostName|Description>=<value> <chktemplate template=<value>|gettargetinfo|getpartitioninfo>
<ERR>
<ERR> chktemplate can be used to verify the hostname produced by the provided template.
<ERR> ex: template=prefix-[SN0-8R]
<ERR>
<ERR> gettargetinfo can be used to show various target information used in the template computation.
<ERR>
<ERR> getpartitioninfo can be used to show the target partition modification specification that is applied at deploy time.
<ERR>
<ERR> Note: You can use BomID=* as target selection to show results for all the known targets.
<ERR>
<ERR> RbAgent command rad-targetupdate has failed [AGT:4394]
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To check how a hostname rule will be resolved at deployment time for a specific target. The following example shows how to check the resulting hostname from resolution of Win10-[MAC3-5R] for the target having BomID=23.
C:\Program Files\BigFix OSD>rbagent.exe rad-targetupdate BomID=23 chktemplate template=Win10-[MAC3-5R]
....
<INF> Checking template Win10-[MAC3-5R] on targets with [BomID=23]
<INF>
<INF> BomID Machine Model MAC IP HostName.+....W....+.........+.L Message
<INF> 23 VMware ESX Guest 00:0C:29:13:AA:B7 10.10.6.145 Win10-000C2913
<INF>
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If the target did not perform pxe boot a message will be displayed. See the following example:
C:\Program Files\BigFix OSD>rbagent.exe rad-targetupdate BomID=17 chktemplate template=Win10-[MAC3-5R]
.....
<INF> Checking template Win10-[MAC3-5R] on targets with [BomID=17]
<INF>
<INF> BomID Machine Model MAC IP HostName.+....W....+.........+.L Message
<INF> 17 00:0c:29:E9:4E:1F Win10-000c29E9 Missing target information. Perform PXE boot.

To see variable resolution for a specific target, see the following example
C:\Program Files\BigFix OSD>rbagent.exe rad-targetupdate BomID=26 gettargetinfo
.....
<INF> Showing target information for targets with [BomID=26]
<INF>
<INF> BomID Machine Model MAC IP HostName SN UUID AssetTag BBSN
<INF> 26 3227BL8 ThinkCentre M92p 44:37:E6:B7:5F:E3 10.10.0.142 S4RAFH7 6CF9318EB36FE211A5D01304CAFB2100
<INF>
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