BigFix prefetch, but using Powershell as the Script Type

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We recently had a request from our BigFix Admins to use prefetch in order to cut down on our Network traffic to our JFrog Artifactory. Using prefetch, as I understand, will download elements once, and then stage them in a BigFix Relay. Don’t currently have the knowledge/ability to look in a BigFix Relay and see what is staged.

My issue comes in that most of our custom Fixlet content is written in native Powershell. I don’t have an issue with the idea behind prefetching, but I’d rather not resort to wrapping every Powershell script using the appendfile method. I find this way to be harder to test and harder to teach, in addition to the conversion we’d have to do to our current native Powershell Fixlets.

Is there a way to do a BigFix prefetch using native Powershell, either through an API or some other method?

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Nope, afraid not. The ‘prefetch’,.‘download’, etc. are ActionScript statements and would not work with the PowerShell to sh scripts. You’d need to use PowerShell download commands instead.

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is there not a way to externally call the prefetch code via powershell?
I figure there must be an API or something that we can utilize to still have this relay caching mechanism but not through the proprietary language

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You could have one task to Prefetch the file using BigFix Actionscript and store it in a Temp folder, then have the second Fixlet actually use the downloaded file. You could then put both Fixlets in a Baseline, with the Download Task as the first Component, then the second Fixlet after it.

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