C3 (Quality Community Content) - May 10th Release

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

C3 Patch - BigFix.Me

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                                

C3 Inventory - BigFix.Me - Github

Full list of changes available here:

Analyses

The following Analyses are now available:

  • β€œApple Update - Mac” - Provides information on the last Apple Software Update run
  • β€œHyper-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)
  • β€œHyper-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
  • β€œLaunch 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
  • β€œLocation - Mac” - Provides latitude and longitudinal information of a Mac OS system with Location Services enabled
  • β€œPrinters - Mac” - Provides information on locally mapped TCP/IP printers, Bonjour printers, Samba printers including their name and connection string, installed printer drivers.
  • β€œServices - 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.
  • β€œTime Machine - Mac” - Provides a small set of properties related to the time machine configuration of the device
  • β€œVPN - 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:

  • β€œApplications - Windows” - Now provides a property for viewing startup items on Windows
  • β€œGroup 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:

  • β€œInvoke - 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:

  • β€œRemote 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:

  • β€œPower - Configuration - Mac” - Provides Power Management information for a Mac Device

Fixlets

The following Fixlets are now available:

  • β€œConfig - Power Policy - Set to High Performance - Mac” - Sets the Mac to High performance power settings

  • β€œConfig - Power Policy - Set to Balanced - Mac” - Sets the Mac to Balanced power settings

  • β€œConfig - Power Policy - Set to Power Saver - Mac” - Sets the Mac to Power Saver power settings

  • β€œConfig - Power Policy - Set to Presentation Mode - Mac” - Sets the Mac to not disable the display

  • β€œConfig - Power Policy - Set to Presentation Mode - Windows” - Sets the PC to not disable the display

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The next release (on either May 17th or May 24th) will be focused on improving Bitlocker and FileVault 2 support – if there are any other features you’re looking for please feel free to reply to these posts or to contact me directly!