Is there a way to find out what actions/fixlets have been applied today?

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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Hello,

I’m quite new to BigFix, and am now exploring its features on 250 test computers :slight_smile:

Today morning I’ve come into my office and got called about 4 POSes, which suddenly changed their time. It’s fine - a fix has been applied this night. But what’s not that good is that it was a surprise for me.

So, the question is: how can I find a list of fixlets which were actually applied in a certain period of time? Web reports? Console?

Thanks in advance!

Best,

Dmitry

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi Dmitry,

There are a couple of ways to get this data:

  • If you are on the computer itself, the BigFix logs folder __BESData__Global\Logs will tell you everything that happened on that computer.
  • If you are looking at the console (or web reports), you can look at the “action” list fort he computer and double-click on the computer in the action results list to see what time an action started (it will give the start and end time of execution).

Unfortunately, there isn’t a great way in the console to list the action start/stop times in a big list to sort through (which is discussed here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=406456)

Hope that helps,

Ben