PEBKAC issue - Creating Automatic Group based on Provider

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End Goal: Create Automatic Groups for AWS and Azure Servers.

PEBKAC issue:
With BigFix 10, there is an Analysis (activated) called “Cloud Providers”. A property within is called “Provider Name” with the contents of if (exists property "cloud provider") then ( name of cloud provider ) else (if (exists property "data source") then ( if (data source contains "ESX" or data source as lowercase contains "vmware") then "VMware" else if ( data source contains "Amazon" ) then "Amazon Web Services" else data source ) else "N/A") Now If I copy and paste this into QNA.exe on a client, I get No inspector context. Shouldn’t that work?

PEBKAC Issue2 (related):
Similarly, if I put in any combination of “Provider Name”, “Provider”, “Cloud Provider”, etc… it doesn’t seem to work either.

Request for help :slight_smile:
I am trying to create an automatic computer group based on this Property. Is that doable and if so, would greatly appreciate some help with the relevance.
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Note: There is also a “Computer Manufacturer - Windows” property but I am finding some Amazon servers are being evaluated as Xen, so this a fallback option that I have in consideration… Plus this is Windows and eventually will need to include Linux.
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No Inspector Context means that only the agent can provide that. You can try through Query (using the agent) or a Fixlet Debugger (using the local agent) but at least one of the inspectors there requires an agent

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Thanks AlanM. I believe I have a lack of understanding here. It seems the BigFix Client and BigFix Agent are used interchangeability. It sounds like there is another agent then, perhaps that is processed on the main BigFix server and not directly on the endpoint?

If so, that would make sense as the environment above has less than 300 fully managed clients, yet the the 3,000 clients listed have been imported from the CloudPlugin.

I am trying to find some additional info on this, but coming up short. Any help with explaining it or a good link?