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Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
Actions
Actions are scripts that run on selected targets. They are used to fix policy violation and security exposures and to run configuration steps. Fixlet, tasks, and baselines depend on actions to run their remediation mission.
Taking actions
At the heart of the BigFix is the ability to take actions to apply policy or fix one or many computers. This topic describes how to do it.

Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
- Accessing the console
  The console is the visible face of BigFix, used by the operator to monitor and repair networked computers running the BigFix client.
- Fixlets and Tasks
- Actions
  Actions are scripts that run on selected targets. They are used to fix policy violation and security exposures and to run configuration steps. Fixlet, tasks, and baselines depend on actions to run their remediation mission.
  - Taking actions
    At the heart of the BigFix is the ability to take actions to apply policy or fix one or many computers. This topic describes how to do it.
    - Taking a default action as part of the deployment of a Fixlet or a task
      You deploy a Fixlet or a task by taking the action that it contains. Follow the instructions provided in this topic to see how to do it.
    - Taking multiple actions
      This topic describes how to deploy a set of Fixlets or tasks in a single grouping using the Take multiple actions command.
    - Taking a custom action
      This topic describes how to create and take a custom action in one shot using the Take custom action command.
  - Monitoring an action taken
    This topic explains how you can keep track of the progression of the deployment of an action taken.
  - Viewing the details of an action run
    Follow the indications provided in this topic to see the details about an action that is being deployed.
  - Running commands on actions
    This topic explains how and which commands you can run on actions.
  - Adding a comment
    BigFix Console operators can make comments on most of the BigFix objects. This topic describes how to add a comment to an action.
  - Making an offer using a custom action
    Follow the instructions provided in this topic if you want to offer to users a set of downloads that they can select at their own discretion. This capability is also referred to as self-provisioning.
- Sites
- Domains
- Roles
- Client Computers
- Computer Groups
- Analyses
- Baselines
- Relays and Servers
- Activating the license counting process
- Displays and Reports
- Menus
- The Dialogs

Taking actions

At the heart of the BigFix is the ability to take actions to apply policy or fix one or many computers. This topic describes how to do it.

These are the different ways to deploy an action:

Whatever type of take action you choose, this is what happens after you clicked OK to take the action:

The console sends the request to the server.
The server stores the action to the op site folder associated with the console operator who issued it, or the actionsite folder, if the action was issued by the master operator.
The server propagates the action to the computers selected in the Target tab of the action or to all computers managed by the operator who issued the action.
On the computers the applicability of the action is evaluated. If the relevance expression described in the action is evaluated true then the action is applicable.
If the action is applicable to that computer, the action is pulled from the server folder down to the computer and it is run.
The computer is added to the Computers tab and the status of the action running on the computer is updated up to completion.