Managing brokers

After installing broker support you can register the broker machines in the BigFix® Remote Control server. When they have been registered you can view the list of brokers, edit the broker details and delete brokers that are no longer required.

The registered broker list is passed from the server to the targets when the targets register, in response to contact from the target, or at the start of a remote control session. The list is stored in the target property BrokerList.

When a target user enters a connection code to start a remote control session using a broker, the target machine tries to connect to each broker in the list until it makes a successful connection to one of them. Therefore, when making changes to the broker list you should ensure that there is still one unchanged broker in the list so that the targets can still connect in a remote control session, then when they are in the session they can contact the server and receive the updated broker list.