Bigfix Relay Configuration

Usage and Config Platform
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(imported topic written by ltd200991)

Hi,

Is it possible to set up a mixed\mode type configuration? (between automatic and manual)

We have a lot of sites that all of their own relay that we’d like to use as the primary, and then have the secondary relay set up here at our main office.

hopefully there is a way to do this without having to manually modify all of our endpoints across 120+ sites…

thanks!

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

check out BES Relay Affilliation

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/Relay%20Affiliation

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(imported comment written by ltd200991)

thanks! I’m testing this out, can’t seem to get it working though…

I made one of the pc’s in my lab a relay, and then configured the following property:

_BESRelay_Register_Affiliation_AdvertisementList IT-LAB1;IT-LAB2

then on one of my workstations in the lab I set up the following property:

_BESClient_Register_Affiliation_Seeklist IT-LAB1

Rebooted both systems, set my workstation to “automatic” relay selection, but its still looking at the master bigfix server as it’s relay.

Note: these two systems are on different networks, a couple hops between them… does that matter?

thanks!

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

no, that shouldn’t matter. if you set your client to manual selection just for testing, and tell it to use your desired relay, will it start using it? if so, that proves that your don’t have any firewall/dns issues preventing the client to use that relay. Let us know if that doesn’t work. If it doesn’t, then make sure that you client can ping the fqdn of your relay, and make sure that tcp and udp 52311 is open between the two.

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(imported comment written by ltd200991)

They can talk to each other fine… I set the client to use the relay manually and its working…

One thing – I had to add the properties as they didnt exist… We are using version 7.2.5.22 – is that the issue?

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

those client settings don’t exist by default, so yes, you would have had to add them to your clients and relays.

Try running the standalone client diagnostic tool exe on your problomatic client. It will give you an option to run the bes relay selection mode, and will tell you why it picks one relay over another.