we have about 200 branch offices, most of them using MPLS (leased line) networks.
to reduce traffic from our leased line and transfer this traffic to the Internet, i implemented NAT from our firewall on the firewall object of the BES server.
now i want to redirect all the relay servers to work against the NAT address, to redirect the traffic to the Internet.
NOTE: just to make it clear, in the windows OS level the BES server has only 1 IP Address, the NAT is done in the Firewall.
i tried to manually change the registry value (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BigFix\BESRelay\GlobalOptions) and set the “DeploymentServer” value to the NAT Address, but this keeps resetting to the original value…
how can this be accomplished?
BTW - i already made several deployment tasks, and then edited the task to download the package from the NAT Address - this works great.
I don’t think I quite understand… Are you trying to get the relays to report to the BigFix Server according to a different address? Can you just change where your DNS entry points?
i am using IP address to access the Bigfix server - if there is a way to change the relays to point to a DNS name, that’s doable, but i need to know how.
my point is this: currently, all my relays point to 10.x.x.x:52311 as their Bigfix server, and i want to point them to a NAT (internet) address (pointing to the same server, but routed through the Internet rather than through our MPLS network). \
Use the Task on the BES Support site “BigFix Relay Setting: Name Override” to change the DNS name of one of your relays to point to instead use the name of the NAT… Then you will be able to use manual or automatic selection to assign them.
What you are trying to do is similar to our “Internet Relay” instructions: