Running the Disconnected Scanner for BigFix Inventory, is there a way to tag a scanner with a custom field? I want to be able to identify groups of servers from our disconnected scanner data source.
I haven’t handled it for a while but I am told that you can now “tag” devices as “cloud” in the config file for the scan, so my suggestion is to have a look at what is in it and whether it allows something custom too.
I think this Running software scans and gathering scan results might be the solution.
Interesting! I wonder if anything needs to be configured within BFI UI or whether those custom properties/fields are automatically imported/created with the same exact name as in the computer_custom_properties.yml/computer.yml files?
Good question. I’m not sure yet.
Testing the windows steps and populating the computer_custom_properties.yml and then running a scan did get my custom property added to the generated computer.yml file.
For Linux, I don’t understand the procedure. Hopefully manual property addition to the computer.yml file after scan execution completes isn’t necessary and there is some way to populate the file(s) before a scan and I’m just not understanding it.
Hello!
In case of disconnected scans the names of properties in computer.yml has to match the names as defined in Management-> Computer Properties. In case of BigFix Platform based datasource each property is mapped to some Analysis Property. In case of the Disconnected Scan - when you add My Property, you use exactly the same name as key in computer.yml.
As per Running software scans and gathering scan results to have the custom properties included - on Linux you directly modify computer.yml, whereas on Windows computer_custom_properties.yml. The difference is only due to limitation of scripting tool on Windows. Initially assumption was that it will be populated manually one time.
Disconnected Scan has limited scan capabilities to only software and hardware capacity discovery. The full future set is only available with BigFix Platform Agent managed endpoints (e.g. software usage and detailed harward scan is available only with BigFix Platform).
got it. thank you. I’ve updated my support case to ask to have this HCL documentation updated to better explain this.