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:

  1. Download the corresponding BigFix client RPM file to the Red Hat computer.
  2. Install the RPM by running the command 
    rpm -ivh client_RPM_path
  3. 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 under C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Installers\Client on Windows™ and /var/opt/BESInstallers/Client/ on Linux). If the masthead is not named actionsite.afxm, rename it to actionsite.afxm and place it on the computer at the following location: /etc/opt/BESClient/actionsite.afxm.
    Note: The directory /etc/opt/BESClient/ is not automatically created by the installer. If it does not exist, create it manually.
    The masthead file for each Endpoint Manager Server is downloadable at http://servername:port/masthead/masthead.afxm (example: http://bes.Endpoint Manager.com:52311/masthead/masthead.afxm).
  4. Start theBigFix client by running the command: 
    /etc/init.d/besclient start