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(imported topic written by FITZPAW91)

Hello,

How would I go about making an informational dialog box based on one of the fields from the computer setting (Comment) evertime that computer is chosen to have an action run against it. Example - Dougs computer has a pop-up that says “be sure Halo is closed before patching” whenever the computer is chosen in bigfix.

Thanks

William

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(imported comment written by Lee Wei)

Here is one way of doing it.

  • There is and if-then-else construct in the BigFix Action Script, so we will use that to test for the right computer
  • The easiest way to pop-up a dialogue is to use VBScript on the endpoint

In the following example, the message box will only pop-up if the computer name = “RAZORBILL”.

if {computer name = “RAZORBILL”}

delete __appendfile

delete msg.vbs

appendfile MsgBox “Message to user”, 0, “Message Title”

move __appendfile msg.vbs

waithidden “{pathname of system folder}\cscript.exe” msg.vbs

endif

Use other conditions as appropriate.

For example, if a computer belongs to a group, I have a computer setting that I can use.

{value of setting “__Group_0_Huff Building” of client}

This returns true if my computer belongs to the “Huff Building” group, and hence will show the message.

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(imported comment written by FITZPAW91)

Thanks for the answer Lee,

So if I understand correctly, when i run this action against computer RAZORBILL, it would create a dialog box on the BES server with “whatever I put in the…” msgbox compent of the file. That way it could advise users that there are things that need to be done before patching the RAZORBILL.

William

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(imported comment written by Lee Wei)

That is correct.

You can test the VBScript file outside of BigFix first.

Simple create a file msg.vbs, add a line

MsgBox “Hello World”

and run with “cscript msg.vbs” from the command line. Search the Internet for “vbscript msgbox” for more examples.

The IF statement looks for a TRUE/FALSE. Any valid relevance statements are possible. In this case, I am simply looking for “computer name”, but you can check for other conditions as well.