Using the BES Client Deploy tool for Windows and the Custom Setting

I am looking to see if the BES Client Deploy tool can be used for a secured network where I need to configure the agents to talk to a specific relay. I have tried using the __RelayServer1 setting but it does not seem the add the registry entry. If I manually add it to the registry, it seems to work fine.

Here is the setting I am referring to:

I have also looked at using this in the clientsettings.cfg which works fine, but this would require me to log on to each system.

Has anyone got this method work?

Thanks

Martin

See this article.

Add the following lines to a file named clientsettings.cfg

IP:http://relay.domain.com:52311/bfmirror/downloads/
__RelayServer1=http://relay.domain.com:52311/bfmirror/downloads/

Place this file in the following directory:

\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Installers\BESClientDeploy\BigFixInstallSource\ClientInstaller

along with the setup.exe and masthead.afxm file.

When you deploy the client, it should pick up this clientsettings.cfg file and bring it along down to the endpoint with the other two files. Please test and confirm.

Note: There is also a Java based deployment tool we provide which more explicitly asks for this config file. See this article for a link to it.

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That did it. Never knew that was an option :slight_smile:

I was going to look at the java based tool as I have used that for other sites, but I am unable to download the images during the execution of the tool and the download does not seem use my proxy settings for the Airgap. I might try playing with that more later.

Thanks

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The proxy setting which you entered is not for the client deploy java tool… that setting is to set proxy setting for BES Client at target. You can use Airgap export , import menu option. Using export it can download the required agents and store it as .zip file. After that you need to import to it to tool. Next time when you deploy the client it will take the existing downloaded images