The Platform Team completed the qualification tests of the BigFix Agent for RHEL 8, SLES 15, AIX 7.3 and AIX 7.2 on Power 10.
These operating systems are now supported with minimum agent version 10.0.7.
Refer to the Platform documentation for more details.
Detailed system requirements for 10.0
Viviana Tripodi - HCL BigFix - Platform Team
Getting OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 agent to start required installing sysvinit-tools
Yes - OpenSUSE is not yet supported, but it is in the ideas for formal support and it pretty much works.
https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFP-I-164
Was getting error:
sudo systemctl status besclient.service
× besclient.service - BESClient daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/besclient.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-10-31 20:02:16 EDT; 26s ago
Process: 23414 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/besclient start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Oct 31 20:02:16 test22 systemd[1]: Starting BESClient daemon...
Oct 31 20:02:16 test22 besclient[23420]: Starting BigFix: BESClient
Oct 31 20:02:16 test22 besclient[23425]: /usr/local/bin/besclient: line 113: startproc: command not found
Oct 31 20:02:16 test22 besclient[23414]: ..failed
Oct 31 20:02:16 test22 systemd[1]: besclient.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 31 20:02:16 test22 systemd[1]: besclient.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 31 20:02:16 test22 systemd[1]: Failed to start BESClient daemon.
Fixed with
sudo zypper install sysvinit-tools
Agent reporting in fine now.
