IBM Bigfix Client Install in ESXI server

[Nagaraj]

Hi,

How do i get the package for VMWare ES-XI server 5.5v?
because IBM bigfix client only showing the below OS,

Thanks,
Nagaraj.

[anademayo]

Hi @Nagaraj,

Here’s another forum thread that might help you out:

ESXi 5.5 Agent and patching

So starting with all of the ESXi hypervisors, VMware actually locked down their hypervisor operating system and prevented users from just installing arbitrary things. So you can’t actually install the TEM client on these endpoints like normal… What we do instead is use the proxy agent to report information back on the ESXi endpoints using the VMware APIs. I think you can find more information here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Mana…

[AlanM]

There is no client available for ESXi systems as there is no place in the hypervisor to put a client.

The ServerAutomation product which uses the ProxyAgent is the best way to handle this.

[Nagaraj]

Hi All,

Thanks for your updates, I will check my environment.

Thanks,
Nagaraj.