Can Bigfix Inventory work without it having an Bigfix agent installed on it

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Can Bigfix Inventory work without it having an agent installed on it

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Hi,

Are you referring to client/agent installed on a specific computer?

I believed, it won’t read any specific inventory such as software and hardware if there is no client/agent installed.

In order to get those inventory, you need to install the client.

Thanks

BR,
Pogi

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Hi Pogi ,

Thanks for your reply, but doesn’t the Bigfix inventory connect directly to the Bigfix database and thus independent of the client/agent installed on it.

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Hi,

Are you referring to the machine where Bigfix Inventory is installed but dont have the BES Client itself?

Thanks

BR,
Pogi

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Hi

Yes exact scenario

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For BigFix Inventory to work, the local BES Client runs a series of scripts that gather the data and report it back up to the BigFix server. It is then gathered from there by the BigFix Inventory server. There is no independent BigFix Inventory client (other than the scripts) that gets deployed.

Without the BigFix Client, none of the other BigFix components will function (except Remote Control).

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