Schedule Activity for Relays Offline

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Hello BigFix Experts,

I hope everyone is doing well.

We are trying to create a scheduled activity which will trigger an email with the report contains the list of relays offline i.e (client on the relay machine is not reporting more than 30 minutes and bes client is running but relay service is stopped).

Could you please provide your help with the relevance / Solution for the above request.
It would be very helpful for us.

Thank You,
SAM

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The best way to do this with BigFix but without using a custom app that makes use of the REST API would be using Web Reports which has a capability to send emails based upon the results of a custom report changing, which is generally powered by session relevance.

You can test session relevance in web reports by visiting:

fqdn_of_webreports_server:port/webreports?page=QNA

This can be used to determine which computers are relays:

This should give the names of all relays:

(name of it | "") of bes computers whose(relay server flag of it)

This should give the names of all relays who’s last report time > 30min:

(name of it | "", last report times of it) whose(now - item 1 of it < 30 * minute) of bes computers whose(relay server flag of it)

Getting relays in which the client is functional but the relay service is stopped is not as easy and would require an analysis property be active that reports on this info.

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