Sample plan: Server Patching (Client-Server sample)

IBM® BigFix Lifecycle Server Automation provides a sample content Automation Plan. This sample Automation Plan contains Tasks to stop services on client and server endpoints, apply a patch to the server endpoint, and then restart the client and server services. All sample plans are read-only. To use a sample plan, you must copy it, re-name it, and then update the placeholder Fixlets with Fixlets, Tasks, or Baselines as per your requirements.

About this task

The patch step in this sample Automation Plan uses a sample placeholder Fixlet for the patching step. Replace this Task with a patching Fixlet, Task or Baseline that you want to apply to your server endpoint. If you want to make a change, you need to make a copy of the Automation Plan.

Complete the following steps to run the sample Automation Plan.

Procedure

  1. Open the Server Automation domain.
  2. From the navigation tree in the Domain Panel, click Automation Plans.
  3. In the Automation Plans dashboard, enter 100 in the filter text box and press Enter. This is the ID of the sample Automation Plan.
  4. Select the Automation Plan from the list of Automation Plans.
  5. Click Copy to copy the Automation Plan, enter a name and then save the copy that you have just created.
  6. To run the copied Automation Plan, click Take Action. The following table shows the parameters and targets that you need to input for each step in the sample Automation Plan.
    Table 1. Parameters and targets
    Step Parameter and targets
    Step 1 Stop Service (222)
    1. Parameter: Client service name
    2. Targets: Client endpoints
    Step 2 Stop Service (222)
    1. Parameter: Server service name
    2. Targets: Server endpoint
    Step 3 Placeholder for OS or Application Patches - (REPLACE ME)
    1. No parameters applicable
    2. Targets: Server endpoint
    Step 4 Start Service (221)
    1. Parameter: Server service name
    2. Targets: Server endpoint
    Step 5 Start Service (221)
    1. Parameter: Client service name
    2. Targets: Client endpoints
  7. Click OK to run the Automation Plan.

Results

The sample Automation Plan runs on the endpoints.