Hi All,
I want to deploy bin (filename.bin) file for AIX platform, is there any special command to execute for this,
Thanks,
Nagaraj.
By deploy - do you mean install? If so, the answer is yes.
The setup is via Systems Life Cycle → Software Distribution.
The actual command, provided at the end of the cycle, depends on the file used (e.g., the file itself, RPM, installp, tarball, etc…)
Yeah I have application bin file,to execute the bin file the below command will work ,
wait chmod a+x /var/opt/filename.bin
Hi. Just touching on this briefly (search for something different brought me back to it).
By deploy a binary file, or a script - I thought you meant more than just one file. I also assumed the binary package was using a package manager (e.g., RPM, or installp), or, e.g., a gzipped tar file.
Using Systems Life Cycle you can package one or more files - that BigFix manages using prefetch, brings them all to a working directory /var/opt/BES*/somewhere and you specify a command to install everything in that directory (e.g, rpm -i *.rpm; or installp -d . all)
But it could also be: (chmod a+x filename.bin && cp -p filename.bin /var/opt)
I read you solution as meaning “filename.bin” got copied (deployed) with the wrong file mode and you needed/used a fixlet to correct the file mode.
Yeah I am using software distribution for copy the folder (including all files bin, text, and some other supporting file) from BF server to BF agent, it was copied all files in to /var/opt/BESClient/__BESData/__Global/__Download/actionsite/files(all files)
so after I was copied all the files in to "var/tmp/files"
then I just executed the bin file like below command
wait chmod a+x /var/tmp/filename.bin
It is showing action complete but the application is not installing in endpoint.
Thanks,
Nagaraj.
OK. Back to research time with BigFix.
To help me understand your issue - if you where to do this manually - e.g., something like:
ssh root@target "mkdir -p /tmp/files/install"
scp * root@target:/tmp/files/install
ssh root@target “chmod a+x /tmp/files/install/filename.bin”
What do need to now?
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yeah I need like this only.
ssh root@target “chmod a+x /tmp/files/install/filename.bin”
could you share the action script for this.
Thanks,
Nagaraj.
From what I understand , the chmod a+x /var/tmp/filename.bin is not actually executing the file. whish is correct…
CHMOD only changes the mode of operation for that file…
What you need to do is then , after changing it, to actually run it.
So what would be the command on the actual machine if you had access to , say, is command line terminal to execute the file…
Once you know that, then you can use that in your action script.
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@Nagaraj - as @Pete_F points out, the chmod command only changes the file permission.
From my way of looking at things I consider your “copying” the files from /some/where to /now/iam/installed/bin is the installation.
Now what I am thinking you mean is not “installation” but using in an action script.
If that is the case - iirc, the class way to run a binary command is:
wait <command-name> <command arguments>
Note: may need to be a fullpath (i.e.,when not in $PATH)
A quite common example is running a shell script
wait sh <full-path-of-script-file>
I apologize for reading deploy and thinking install
Besides wait, there is also run
Check out: https://developer.bigfix.com/action-script/reference/execution/run.html and https://developer.bigfix.com/action-script/reference/execution/wait.html
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so the action command i have to add like below right,
wait sh “/var/tmp/filename.bin”
How would you install it outside of bigfix? You need to know the install commands first.
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@Nagaraj - yes, you need await sh “/var/tmp/filename.bin” or wait “/var/tmp/filename.bin”
but since you are not installing it in the classic sense (you want it run as a task is how I read your question now), after it has run you should consider:
delete “/var/tmp/filename.bin”
Or, you create another task that has, e.g., exists file /var/tmp/filename.bin as relevance, and then do something with it.
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I just copy the bin file from endpoint one directory to another directory and execute the bin file.