We want to execute linux command on servers through bigfix and export that output through Bigfix WebUI.
Please guide
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If you’re new to BigFix I’d really recommend talking to a senior in your org, or reach out to us through your TA. If you don’t know who that is, send me a private message and we can help you find out.
I say this as a word of caution, because this can be done but it can also have some impact.
A very common method is to use an Action to execute a command, saving the output to a file, and then using an Analysis to read the contents of the file.
But usually we would not just send the whole output up to the server in an Analysis. Instead the Analysis would read the file and determine success, or failure, or some property you want to track for the computer and for which you needed to run a command and get output. We don’t use an Analysis to retrieve a whole log or output because everything your report in an Analysis is stored in the BigFix database.
Running a command that generates a large output, and then reading that whole output from many computers, can really Impact storage and performance at your database.
So we’d want to be selective about what to retrieve. What do you want to do?
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