Running the ISO tags scan
Available from 9.2.5. In software identification tags scan, the scanner searches for ISO tags that are delivered with software products. After you upload the final package with scan results to BigFix Inventory, the tags are processed. Based on the information that they contain, the software is discovered.
Note: This task is optional, because it can be completed by an automated script.
Use it only for advanced scenarios.
Before you begin
Procedure
- In QSH, run the following command to initiate the ISO tag
scan:
/qsys.lib/qtivcit.lib/wscansw.pgm -s -c sw_config.xml -i i5_iso_catalog.xml -o iso_scan.xml
Where:- -s
- Creates a signature for the output file. The signature must be stored for audit purposes.
- -c sw_config.xml
- Path to the sw_config.xml configuration file that you downloaded with CIT.
- -i i5_iso_catalog.xml
- Path to the ISO software catalog for IBM i systems.
- -o iso_scan.xml
- The output file. It contains paths to all scanned ISO tags.
- The scan creates the iso_scan.xml output file. Back up this file, because you will need to store the original output and its signature for audit purposes.
- The iso_scan.xml output file lists
all scanned ISO tags. You must now gather and copy these tags to a
separate directory and create a text file that lists all of them.
Create such a directory, for example /isotag_scan,
and then complete the following steps:
- Compress the isotag_scan directory
into a [zip|tar.gz|tgz] package, and copy it
to the /scans directory, in which you store all
scan results.Warning: The list.txt file must be the first file in the archive. You can achieve it by compressing only this file, and then adding the rest of files to the archive.
- Copy the backup iso_scan.xml file and its signature to the /source directory.