How to change th relay manually on a bigfix client

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Hi All, Please suggest a way to change relay manually on Bigfix client.

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hi @tarwaniv i hope you will get the answer which you are finding:

If you want to install a new relay, then there is a fixlet in the console named “Install IBM Bigfix relay” under BES support site. You can take the action and deploy it onto the system which you want to be a relay.

If you want to redirect your systems to a particular relay, into the console under the computers tab select the system where you want to set/change the relay, right click onto the computer, you will get an option named as edit computer settings there you will find the relay selection mode select manual mode and you will now be able to set primary and secondary relay, select the relay in both the tabs and then select ok.

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There are multiple ways to change a relay manually on an endpoint however it fully depends on the OS of the endpoint as to which method you use :slight_smile:

On Windows:

  1. Stop the BigFix Agent Service (BES Client)

  2. Modify the registry entry in \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\Settings\Client__RelayServer1 to have the value http://RELAY IP HERE:52311/bfmirror/downloads/

  3. Modify the registry entry in \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\Settings\Client__RelayServer2 to have the value http://RELAY IP HERE:52311/bfmirror/downloads/

  4. Restart the BigFix Agent Service (BES Client)

On AIX / LINUX:

  1. Stop the BigFix Agent Service (BES Client)

  2. Modify the relay values in /var/opt/besclient.config to have the new relay details

  3. Restart the BigFix Agent Service (BES Client)

Alternatively, you can select the endpoint in the console, click on edit settings and adjust the relays this way.

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That won’t actually change the relay always though. The client has a preference to use the relay selected if its reachable so you might not always get the result you want