The initial data came in really quickly. Is this information being sent to the server every evaulation?
A: Once the property is created, it will immediately check its relevance on all endpoints.
How does the client know that a property has changed and to send an update to the database?
A: It will check it once created, and then at the intervals you set it too (1 hour/day/ 7days, etc)
How can I see the historical changes of the property?
A: I do not think this is possible, but maybe someone else can chime in.
Is there a way to force a refresh of the property to be updated immediately?
A: Yes. Right click on your endpoint and select ‘send refresh’. This sends a UDP packet to the endpoint at port 52311 and forces the agent to check in.
Is there a way to change data in a field from the console?
weberch, Thanks. Some clarification on number 2. What I’m looking for there is how does the client know that the property has changed from last time and if it has not changed it does not send it correct?
Basically it sounds as if you have some process which creates this file on the local machine and want to keep the data updated if it changed?
Assuming the above - the easy way could be just to have it run at some interval all the time or you would need to check for some value to see if it has change in the file that would make the action relevent again and set have this apply again if becomes relevant.
Stacy, Yes. These were more informational questions so I decided to post them here. The client has a vb app that the technicians run when they work on the pc and it creates the .mif file. They want the info updated as soon as it is updated on the PC. I just want to make sure it’s not sending back results every time and am also curious about how the client is tracking that change and knows that there is a delta change to upload. It sounds like some sort of internal pointer or something like that to me…
Does the .mif get over written/replaced/removed-added?
Do they have BigFix console access?
So best way may depend on how to do this…but here is an idea:
How about the the VB app also creates a reg key HKLM\SOFTWARE\COMPANYNAME
client status = 0 or 1
So when the VB App runs it sets the key to 0. 0 would mean updated needed.
Have the BigFix action watch this key and when it see a value of 0 it would run the action and afterwards set it to a value of 1.
You can have the action deployed as a policy action and reapply if it become relevant again and target all of your subset of machines you need to watch.
now when a tech runs the vb app it will change it to ‘0’ - bigfix will notice it and run the action and set to ‘1’.
I need to find out if it overlays or just updates the .mif. I’ll get back to you on that.
On another note, I know this could be stored in the registry, however… the source code has been misplaced so we’re stuck with the way the tool operates untill it’s found or the client revamps the system. I recommended using the IP ranges to populated the location information but right now the IP ranges are all over the place so that’s not reliable. They are working on re-vlan’ing the buildings.
The techs probably would not have console access.
From your note it sounds like it’s sending results every evaluation but it doesn’t look like it’s doing that. (Just based on server performance being the same as before I added these properties)
