Retrieving target installation and security data

The Remote Control Installation and Security Options analysis is used for gathering information about the installation and security property values from targets in your environment. The returned values provide information about the targets. For example, if they are allowed to take part in peer-to-peer sessions or if they can take part in remote control sessions that are initiated from an IBM® BigFix® Remote Control server. For property value definitions, see step 2 .

If the analysis is active, the computers that this analysis was relevant for and the values of the installation and security options, are displayed in the Results tab. You can expand the Applicable Computers entry and filter the data further by Retrieved Properties. This feature can be useful in many ways. For example, to determine which targets can take part in peer-to-peer remote control sessions or to view the version of target software that is installed on the various IBM BigFix Remote Control targets.

For example, to view a list of targets that are running a specific version of IBM BigFix Remote Control target software, expand Applicable Computers > By Retrieved Properties > By Remote Control Target Version and select a specific version from the list. A list of relevant targets is displayed.