Monitoring an action taken

How you can keep track of the progression of the deployment of an action taken.

After actions have been scheduled, the BigFix server attempts to signal individual computers that there are actions waiting for them. Ideally, the BigFix client gathers the action information from the action site and runs it immediately. More typically however, some computers are powered off and others are mobile and undocked at the time of the deployment. As soon as these computers are powered on or docked to the network, the remedial actions are applied to them as well.

At any time you can see the status of the actions taken from the BigFix console. You can:
Monitor the overall state of the action
You can see it in the State column of the Actions List panel.
This window displays the Monitor the overall state of the action screen. The State column of the Actions List panel is also displayed.
The state can be:
Open
The action is active on one or more computers. It remains open until its expiration date elapses, or an operator stops it. You cannot remove an action that is open.
Stopped
The action was stopped by an operator. It remains stopped until its expiration date elapses or it is removed.
Expired

The action has passed its expiration date. When an action expires, the targets stop evaluating. Hence, for the expired actions, the target status is a snapshot of last status reported by clients at the expiration time.

Monitor the status of the action on selected computers
You can see it in the Computers tab of the selected action .
This window displays the Computers tab of the selected action.
To access this dialog:
  1. Click the Action icon in the navigation tree.
  2. Select an action in the Actions List Panel. Information about the action is displayed in the Work Area.
  3. Select the Computers tab in the Work Area.
For information about the different statuses, see Action: Computers.
Monitor the action progression on a computer
You can see the result of each step of the action run on a specific computer. This is shown in the View Action Info dialog.
This window displays the result of each step of the action run on a specific computer. This is displayed in the View Action Info dialog screen.
To access this dialog:
  1. Click the Action icon in the navigation tree.
  2. Select an action in the Actions List Panel.
  3. Select the Computers tab in the Work Area.
  4. Right-click any computer in the list.
  5. Either select Show Action Info from the context menu or select Show Action Info from the Edit menu.
For information about the values in this panel, see View action info.