Red Hat Installation Instructions
Before installing the client on Red Hat Enterprise Linux™ 6
or later, ensure you have:
- Disabled the SELinux process.
- Installed the Athena library (libXaw package) that is used by the user interface component of the client.
To install the client perform the following steps:
- Download the corresponding BigFix client RPM file to the Red Hat computer.
- Install the RPM by running the command
rpm -ivh client_RPM_path
- Copy your actionsite masthead to the client computer (the masthead
contains configuration, license, and security information). The action
site masthead (
actionsite.afxm
) can be found in your BES Installation folders (by default they are placed underC:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Installers\Client
on Windows™ and/var/opt/BESInstallers/Client/
on Linux). If the masthead is not namedactionsite.afxm
, rename it toactionsite.afxm
and place it on the computer at the following location:/etc/opt/BESClient/actionsite.afxm
.Note: The directoryThe masthead file for each Endpoint Manager Server is downloadable at/etc/opt/BESClient/
is not automatically created by the installer. If it does not exist, create it manually.http://servername:port/masthead/masthead.afxm
(example:http://bes.Endpoint Manager.com:52311/masthead/masthead.afxm
). - Start theBigFix client
by running the command:
/etc/init.d/besclient start