Hi,
Trying to find a way to automatically deploy software once a computer checks into bigfix.
The idea would be to have it check in, check relevance to see if the machine needs it, and then deploy if it is relevant.
Overall we are trying to ensure any machine with the bigfix agent installed on it will also have our antivirus on it, and if it doesn’t, deploy it automatically.
Thoughts?
Use a site and/or a policy. We have a mutli-tenacy setup and all new customer computers get added to a site for that customer automatically. Once they join the site, the policies under that site become applicable.
Make the site have relevance to check to see if the software is installed, if not, it is applicable to the site and policies. If you don’t want a system to check into the site again later, set a property or reg key basically tagging it as done
Yes, you can have automatic actions. They can be single items, baselines, or entire flows of baselines. We use all the above to automate system builds of various types. We use it to completely personalize a system from new out of the box to being completely customized for a specific role at a specific business location.
Thanks,
Any documentation from HCL regarding this? I’d like to start dabbling, as the web consles patch policies are really not working and would rather automate baselines.
A simple way to start is to make a patch baseline with an open action - frequently called a ‘Policy Action’. When systems come online that are relevant to the action, they will automatically run (so be careful of your execution parameters).
More sophisticated flows involve ‘chaining’ baseline policy actions together by making the relevance for one contingent on the prior one completing successfully.
Very cool. I’ll look into that.
Thanks!