For details on modern client management, see the Modern Client Management documentation. BigFix 10 delivers a few significant new functions for enhancing the visibility and management of devices on your network regardless of whether the devices are physical or virtual. The capability to establish persistent connections was added to the product. The capability to establish a persistent TCP connection between the parent relay in the more secure zone and its child relay inside the DMZ network was added to the product.
This allows you to manage systems in a demilitarized zone DMZ network. The BigFix Client includes a new feature named PeerNest, that allows to share binary files among Clients located in the same subnet. The feature is available starting from BigFix Version 9.
You can collect multiple files from BigFix clients into an archive and move them through the relay system to the server. A number of advanced BigFix configuration settings are available that can give you substantial control over the behavior of the BigFix suite. These options allow you to customize the behavior of the BigFix server, relays, and clients in your network. These topics explain additional configuration steps that you can run in your environment. This section details the steps and operational procedures necessary for migrating the BigFix Server from existing hardware onto new computer systems.
This section provides basic information on migrating your BigFix Server from existing Linux hardware onto new systems. The following lists show the advanced options. BigFix provides the capability to follow the NIST security standards by configuring an enhanced security option. Client Authentication introduced in version 9 extends the security model used by BigFix to encompass trusted client reports and private messages.
BigFix allows you to monitor your client and relay setups to ensure they are working optimally. To monitor your BigFix environment setup and status and to complete actions on your clients. You can specify which fields we should use for your query: Title Keywords Description Relevance Domain ActionScript Mime Signature Content clear all Lastly you can choose number of results per page: 10 25 50 Log In.
Relevance Windows Only Relevance Relevance Actions Action 1 default Action Link Click here to deploy this action. Sharing Social Media:. But how should you include this information? The best practice is to use a format that is universally understandable and free from ambiguities.
There are some different variations of the format, but its advantages are present in all of them. In short, by using this format you avoid confusion.
In the previous section, we told you to use the ISO format for the timestamps on your log entries. But the difficulty of handling time is not restricted to the different formats available. Users will talk in terms of their timezone e. That makes it easier for the developer performing post-mortem debug to find the relevant log entries. Just use the local time, along with the offset from UTC. That way, it becomes easier for locals to understand when an issue happened relative to their own time.
The offset allows you to convert the timestamp back to UTC easily—invert its signal and add it to the hour. Properly employing logging levels is one of the most important things you can do for your log files. But it also helps human readers, which is our main focus today. The correct use of levels will make your log files more easily searchable and, yes, readable. But what are logging levels? Briefly, logging levels are labels. You use them to categorize your log entries by urgency , or severity.
Before running the installation make sure that you read the following topics and run the requested activities if needed. Now that you understand the terms and the administrative roles, you are ready to get authorized and install the programs.
After understanding the terms and the administrative roles, you are ready to actually get authorized and install the programs. After having run the installation, make sure that you read the following topics and run the requested activities if needed. Relays can significantly improve the performance of your installation. Follow the step-by-step sequence of operations needed to build the virtual machine, from the downloading of the ISO image to the complete setup and configuration of the BigFix Virtual Relay.
If your enterprise uses a proxy to access the Internet, your BigFix environment can use that communication path to gather content from sites. You can schedule periodic backups typically nightly of the BigFix server and database files, to reduce the risk of losing productivity or data when a problem occurs by restoring the latest backup. This section describes the known limitations and possible workarounds.
You can enable or disable the logging activity on some BigFix components by setting the following Windows registry keys:. Learning Academy. Customer Support. Home Installation Guide Learn the system requirements, licensing and installation instructions, and how to configure and maintain BigFix.
Logging This section describes the log files associated with the BigFix components. Installation Guide Learn the system requirements, licensing and installation instructions, and how to configure and maintain BigFix.
Introduction BigFix aims to solve the increasingly complex problem of keeping your critical systems updated, compatible, and free of security issues.
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