UNIX Clients
To assign a relay to your UNIX client at installation time, perform
the following steps:
- Create the
besclient.config
file under/var/opt/BESClient/
with the following lines:[Software\BigFix\EnterpriseClient] EnterpriseClientFolder = /opt/BESClient [Software\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\GlobalOptions] StoragePath = /var/opt/BESClient LibPath = /opt/BESClient/BESLib [Software\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\Settings\Client\__RelayServer1] effective date = [Enter current date and time in standard format] value = http://relay.domain.com:52311/bfmirror/downloads/ [Software\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\Settings\Client\__RelayServer2] effective date = [Enter current date time in standard format] value = http://relay2.domain.com:52311/bfmirror/downloads/ [Software\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\Settings\Client\__RelaySelect_Automatic] effective date = [Enter current date time in standard format] value = 0
- Ensure that the directory and file are owned by root and are not
writable by anyone else. In this way, when you run the UNIX client
installer to install the client, the installer does not re-create
or overwrite
/var/opt/BESClient/besclient.config
with the following settings:[Software\BigFix\EnterpriseClient] EnterpriseClientFolder = /opt/BESClient [Software\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\GlobalOptions] StoragePath = /var/opt/BESClient LibPath = /opt/BESClient/BESLib
- In
effective date = [Enter current date and time in standard format]
set the date and time. An example of the standard format of the date and time is the following:
You cannot specifyWed, 06 Jun 2012 11:00:00 -0700
effective date = {now}
because the{}
brackets imply the use of inline relevance, and now is a keyword. - In
value = http://relay.domain.com:52311/bfmirror/downloads/
modifyrelay.domain.com
to be your desired relay.
Tip: You can obtain and verify the current content of
the
besclient.config
by assigning a relay manually
for a particular Linux client, and then copying the particular lines
from its besclient.config
file to use on other systems. Note: For more information about troubleshooting clients that have
problems in choosing a BigFix relay,
see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21506065.