I am running the action script below and the action runs complete until this line
if {(parameter “Asset Category” of action =! “”)} Where I get command failed Relevance Substitution error) action script is below and after that is the log file. Does anyone see what is wrong and if the rest of the statement is correct as I have not gotten past this line.
Action script
delete __appendfile
delete servinfo.reg
appendfile REGEDIT4
action parameter query "Asset Category" with description "Please enter the Asset Category (i.e. EACMS,EAP,PCA,BES Cyber Asset,Cyber Asset,Non-CIP) name you would like to add:" With default ""
if {(parameter "Asset Category" of action =! "")}
appendfile "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\Settings\Client\Asset Category"
appendfile "value"="{parameter "Asset Category" of action}"
endif
move __appendfile servinfo.reg
wait regedit -s servinfo.reg
Log File
Relevant - Asset Tags_02242016 (fixlet:4211)
At 12:47:05 -0800 -
ActionLogMessage: (action:4211) Action signature verified for Execution
ActionLogMessage: (action:4211) starting action
At 12:47:06 -0800 - actionsite (http://itemserver.training.tivoli.edu:52311/cgi-bin/bfgather.exe/actionsite)
Command succeeded delete __appendfile (action:4211)
Command succeeded delete No 'C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client\__BESData\CustomSite_NERC_CIP_V5\servinfo.reg' exists to delete, no failure reported (action:4211)
Command succeeded appendfile REGEDIT4 (action:4211)
Command succeeded (file created) appendfile REGEDIT4 (action:4211)
Command succeeded appendfile REGEDIT4 (action:4211)
Command succeeded action parameter query "Asset Category" with description "Please enter the Asset Category (i.e. EACMS,EAP,PCA,BES Cyber Asset,Cyber Asset,Non-CIP) name you would like to add:" With default "" (action:4211)
Command failed (Relevance substitution error.) if {parameter "Asset Category" of action =! ""} (action:4211)
Thanks everyone as that solved the command failure. However when I run this action to complete with exit code 0 (log below. There is no registry edit showing for this. Action script
delete __appendfile
delete servinfo.reg
appendfile REGEDIT4
action parameter query "Asset Category" with description "Please
enter the Asset Category (i.e. EACMS,EAP,PCA,BES Cyber Asset,Cyber
Asset,Non-CIP) name you would like to add:" With default ""
if {parameter "Asset Category" of action != ""}
appendfile "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\Settings\Client\Asset Category"
appendfile "value"="{parameter "Asset Category" of action}"
endif
move __appendfile servinfo.reg
wait regedit -s servinfo.reg
Logs
At 04:48:09 -0800 - actionsite (http://itemserver.training.tivoli.edu:52311/cgi-bin/bfgather.exe/actionsite)
Command succeeded delete __appendfile
(action:4213)
Command succeeded delete No 'C:\Program Files
(x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client\__BESData\CustomSite_NERC_CIP_V5\servinfo.reg'
exists to delete, no failure reported (action:4213)
Command succeeded appendfile REGEDIT4
(action:4213)
Command succeeded (file created) appendfile
REGEDIT4 (action:4213)
Command succeeded appendfile REGEDIT4
(action:4213)
Command succeeded action parameter query
"Asset Category" with description "Please enter the Asset
Category (i.e. EACMS,EAP,PCA,BES Cyber Asset,Cyber Asset,Non-CIP) name you
would like to add:" With default "" (action:4213)
Command succeeded appendfile
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\Settings\Client\Asset
Category" (action:4213)
Command succeeded appendfile
"value"="EAP" (action:4213)
Command succeeded move __appendfile servinfo.reg
(action:4213)
Command started - wait regedit -s servinfo.reg
(action:4213)
At 04:51:07 -0800 -
Report posted successfully
At 04:51:08 -0800 - actionsite (http://itemserver.training.tivoli.edu:52311/cgi-bin/bfgather.exe/actionsite)
Command succeeded (Exit Code=0) wait regedit -s
servinfo.reg (action:4213)
At 04:51:09 -0800 -
ActionLogMessage: (action:4213) ending
action
At 04:51:09 -0800 - mailboxsite (http://itemserver.training.tivoli.edu:52311/cgi-bin/bfgather.exe/mailboxsite5113511)
Not Relevant - Asset Tags_02242016
(fixlet:4213)
I may be approaching this wrong as I need to write to both client settings linux (file based) and windows registry based). I was looking at what happens if you edit a client setting which takes action. IF someone has a better suggestion.
We are building a baseline for new machines that are being added and there are 6 asset tags that are required as well as other fixlets that are to be added to the new machine and actions to be taken.
That still doesn’t look right, but you probably have it correct in your actual script.
You should not write directly to the registry or to the file on linux for this. This is exactly what make client settings so powerful is that they are cross platform and you don’t have to worry about the actual implementation details. Instead you can use the generic and supported way to read and write them that is universal as @AlanM pointed out.
Also, there are registry edit action script commands that it is much easier to use than using regedit -s reg.reg