Where to find a real beginners guide for starting to know Bigfix?

Usage and Config
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Hello all,

I’m requested to set up a working version of BigFix on a company server, but unfortunately I never used the tool.
I was wondering where I could find a step-by-step usage guide of all components ?
I found the setup guide but I can’t find the real usage guide.

Thanks in advance for any help.

greetings,

Davy

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Hi Davy,

What setup guide did you find? They have a lot of relevant ( :slight_smile: ) information here:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/Home

This guide tells you how to install your server, configure your relays and how to begin authoring content. If you have specific questions, you can always search these forums.

Happy hunting!

Best,
Josh

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I’d say this forum is one of the best resources if you have specific questions: https://forum.bigfix.com

If you want to see examples of custom content for BigFix, this is one of the best options: https://bigfix.me/

This is the primary documentation for BigFix: IBM Documentation

See this forum post for a very large list of BigFix resources: BigFix Documentation & Resources

If there isn’t any BigFix experience in the company, I would probably start by creating an eval server that you would never actually put into production or put many clients into it. Use it to get more comfortable with the tool before trying to stand up a production service.

  • How many endpoints do you expect to have total?
  • How many IT staff will have access to BigFix?
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On the menu in the console, if you click on the Help > IEM Support Center; you are sent here:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21624185

We’ve done our best to link to as many sources that will help you.

@jgstew if you have recommendations for improving this Support Center Page with additional sources of information feedback is welcome. I’ll look through this thread and start incorporate what has been posted here as well.

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Thanks all, I will take some time to search all through.
PS, I’m currently assigned to a Business Partner where we would like to install TEM. We will have about 250 endpoints, not including mobile devices (yet).

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250 endpoints is small enough that you won’t need much in terms of infrastructure or hardware. You will really only need the root server by itself. You could potentially run the root server in a VM but you need to make sure the storage IOPS and network latency will be sufficient.

Even though you won’t need relays, you might actually want them depending on how your network is setup and how many different physical locations you may have because they can help save bandwidth on your WANs.