Hello!
I am pleased to announce the first regular update to the C3 set of projects. Updates will occur on a weekly/biweekly basis. For information on the C3 set of projects (and how to set it up with your BigFix Environment) please see the announcement post: C3 - Free BigFix Community Content Libraries This content is provided to the community, maintained by me and anyone who contributes to the repositories on github. This is not IBM provided or supported content.
Overview
This release introduces expanded application patching support in C3 Patch as well as a number of new analyses in the C3 Inventory site covering Hyper-V, VPN, Printers on Mac, Services on Windows and some other inventory-type analyses. Finally, this release adds some new test content to the Power Management site.
- C3 Patch - 15 New Supported Applications (49 Total)
- C3 Inventory - 9 New Analyses, 2 Updated Analyses, 1 New Fixlet
- C3 Remote Control - 1 New Analysis
- C3 Power Management - 1 New Analysis, 3 New Fixlets
The following applications are now supported by C3 Patch and will have the latest deployment, update, and removal fixlets generated and published daily:
7-Zip IrFanView Steam
Audacity Jaws (x86) Teamviewer
Blender Jaws (x64) Thunderbird
CCleaner KeePass 2 TightVNC Server (x64)
CDBurnerXP MBAM TightVNC Server (x86)
Classic Shell NotePadPP TightVNC Viewer (x64)
Dell Command Configure NSClient++ (x64) TightVNC Viewer (x86)
Evernote Opera VMWare Player 12.x (x64)
FileZilla Paint.Net vSphere Client
Firefox Peazip WinDirStat
FoxIT Reader RealVNC Server (x64) WinMerge
GhostScript RealVNC Server (x86) WinRar (x64)
Gimp RealVNC Viewer (x64) WinRar (x86)
Google Earth RealVNC Viewer (x86) WinSCP
HipChat Scratch 2
InkScape Silverlight
Full list of changes available here:
Analyses
The following Analyses are now available:
- “Apple Update - Mac” - Provides information on the last Apple Software Update run
- “Hyper-V Guest - Windows” - Provides Guest ID, Guest Display Name, and Physical Host information on Windows Hyper-V Guests (the virtual machines on a hyper-v server)
- “Hyper-V Host - Windows” - Provides a list of the virtual machines, their current state (Running, Stopped, Saved), their replication state (No Replication, Healthy, Warning, Critical), and their current uptime
- “Launch Daemons - Mac” - Provides information on the Launch Agents and Launch Daemons enabled on a system. Specifically provides the name of the Daemon or Agent, it’s enabled or disabled state, and the program and arguments that the Launch Daemon runs
- “Location - Mac” - Provides latitude and longitudinal information of a Mac OS system with Location Services enabled
- “Printers - Mac” - Provides information on locally mapped TCP/IP printers, Bonjour printers, Samba printers including their name and connection string, installed printer drivers.
- “Services - Windows” - Provides a list of all services, what user account they are configured to logon as. Provides a list of all services running as a domain account, and provides a list of all services running as a local (non-builtin) account.
- “Time Machine - Mac” - Provides a small set of properties related to the time machine configuration of the device
- “VPN - Mac” - Provides the current configuration of any VPN profiles on the Mac covering PPTP, IPSec, and L2TP connections and what VPN concentrator they are pointing to
The following Analyses have additional properties:
- “Applications - Windows” - Now provides a property for viewing startup items on Windows
- “Group Policy - Windows” - Now provides a property that outlines what local group policies may be applying to the machine
Fixlets
The following Fixlets are now available:
- “Invoke - Kernel Kext Cache Reset - Mac” - Resets the Kernel Kext Cache which can be useful during troubleshooting a slow boot issue on a mac.
##C3 Remote Control - BigFix.Me - Github
Analyses
The following Analyses are now available:
- “Remote Desktop - Session Logs - Windows” - Provides session logs for Remote Desktop including connecting user, date, new/resumed session and originating IP address
##C3 Power Management
The power management site is considered an alpha site and should may not be entirely ready for production use.
Analyses
The following Analyses are now available:
- “Power - Configuration - Mac” - Provides Power Management information for a Mac Device
Fixlets
The following Fixlets are now available:
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“Config - Power Policy - Set to High Performance - Mac” - Sets the Mac to High performance power settings
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“Config - Power Policy - Set to Balanced - Mac” - Sets the Mac to Balanced power settings
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“Config - Power Policy - Set to Power Saver - Mac” - Sets the Mac to Power Saver power settings
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“Config - Power Policy - Set to Presentation Mode - Mac” - Sets the Mac to not disable the display
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“Config - Power Policy - Set to Presentation Mode - Windows” - Sets the PC to not disable the display
