Can the BigFix Client Deploy Tool Be Used Outside of the BigFix Console?

Hi all …

The Client Deploy Tool can be launched from the Start menu on the Windows Server Machine at Start > All Programs > IBM Endpoint Manager > IBM Endpoint Manager Client Deploy.

Can the Client Deploy tool be copied by itself to another machine without the BigFix Server or Console on it and run from that machine? (My customer wanted to know).

–Mark

I have never done this, but my understanding is that it can do exactly that. I think you may need the copy of all of the client installers as well and any other files the tool may depend on.

I’m not certain if the deploy tool has a command line interface, but if so, it could probably be deployed onto existing endpoints and use those endpoints as a jump point to get to others that don’t yet have the client on them.