How to get country and Site type using IBM Bigfix

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Hi All,

Is there any way to find out country and site type details for all the endpoint in IBM Bigfix?

Sample report

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So, you can get the country a little bit based off of the IP address of the machine if you run it through an IP address geolocation finder thing: https://www.iplocation.net/

Iā€™m not sure what you mean by type of site. Like is that specific to your type of deployment? I donā€™t think thereā€™s anything inherent about an endpoint being in an ā€˜enterpriseā€™ or ā€˜not enterpriseā€™ site that bigfix provides out of the box, but it sounds like itā€™s something that could be a custom property that you could add to figure it out.

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Is there some sort of criteria that you have to determine which machines of yours are Enterprise or Non-Enterprise? What does this mean for your endpoints in your organization?

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Sure, using an Analysis

Property "Country Agreement": 
value "Country_Agreement" of key "HKLM\Software\Custom" of native registry

Property "Type of site": 
value "Type_Of_Site" of key "HKLM\Software\Custom" of native registry

Now, just enter data into the Country_Agreement and Type_Of_Site registry keys on each machine and BigFix will track & report that for you. You could also use an Action to enter that data into the registry.

ā€¦and I hope you see why we wonā€™t be able to give a good answer for your question. Determining what values you want in those fields has to come from somewhere that the client can query.

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I think if you are going to manually set something like that on clients, then Client Settings would be a better option since it will work for all Operating Systems the same way.

Use a client settings named something like:

Custom_Country_Agreement
Custom_Type_Of_Site

Generally I wouldnā€™t recommend setting too many client settings, but in this case, that is what I would recommend.

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I looked at this 2 weeks ago for getting geo location , but those systems would have to have access to the internet. For this one you could use curl. The problem would come from the type of site property, like @jgstew and @JasonWalker mentioneded above.

Example:
curl.exe ipinfo.io/23.66.166.151

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If you have a well-defined mapping between IP Subnets and Sites/Locations, you can use the ā€œLocation Property Wizardā€ in the BES Support site to create a custom client setting based on Subnets / IP ranges.

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