Getting started with Relevance

Hi Every Buddy,
I am new to this Forum and 2 years old in Bigfix but i still not know how to write relevance. I was using tool Bigfix Relevance Builder for the same but it’s not enough to full fill my requirement. I need to learn relevance language. Is any buddy aware about this please guide me i am feeling very stressed because there is no institute near to me to learn the relevance language. It will very helpful for me if any buddy suggest me any use full document.

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Thanks in Advance
Nagendra Singh

Honestly, from someone who had 0 experience with it, the secret is, looking at what the BigFix team created in their fixlets and relevance and bending it to your will. It really just takes some time to get used to but, soon enough, you’ll be fluent in relevance because, to me, it’s just like asking the computer questions and it giving you the answer. Here is some links to hang onto.

Inspector Reference - A collection of all the inspectors that can be used for analysis
Action Reference - A collection of the inspectors and their use for Action scripting

With these two references it all comes down to what you really want to know about your environment and you just start creating. Good luck!

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For the inspector reference I would always suggest searching from the “world” objects first at https://support.bigfix.com/inspectors/World%20Objects_Any.html

These are things that can just be created by name ( no “of” ) and it makes the unfortunately not searchable reference a bit easier to go through.

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Definitely use the Fixlet Debugger, it is a huge help. In particular try the “properties” inspector.

There are tons of relevance and actionscript examples here: http://bigfix.me/

It is definitely easiest to learn by looking at examples and modifying them to fit your needs. Start by looking at Analyses and testing the relevance you are writing in the Fixlet Debugger, then in an Analysis property. Creating an analysis is a great way to explore the capabilities of an inspector. See here: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=analysis+inurl:bigfix.me

You can install the Fixlet Debugger with these tasks:

http://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/3835
http://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/3838

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Here’s another thing that might help:
https://github.com/bigfix/authoring-guide

It leads to a lot of solid real life examples of how you would do custom relevance.

See this as well: BigFix Documentation & Resources