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Installation Guide
This guide is for administrators and IT managers who want to install and administer IBM BigFix.
Installing on Linux systems
After understanding the terms and the administrative roles, you are ready to actually get authorized and install the programs.
Installing the Client Deploy Tool

Installing the Client Deploy Tool

The Client Deploy Tool is used to deploy Windows Clients. This tool is also available on Linux Server and is wrapped into the BigFix Console image for Linux.

To install this tool in a Linux server deployment, perform the following steps:

Go to /var/opt/BESInstallers directory.
Copy the Console folder to a Windows workstation that will be also used as BigFix Console.
From the Console directory on the Windows workstation, run setup.exe to install the Console together with the Deploy Tool. To start the tool, from the C:\Program Files\BigFix Enterprise\BES Console\BESClientDeploy directory, run the BESClientDeploy.exe program.