Running Bigfix Discovery

Running Bigfix Discovery

Creating Scope
Open TADDM server GUI to create a discovery scope. Scope should include all the BigFix target end points. The target endpoints can be set as individuals host or by specifying domain/network range.
Creating Profile
A Discovery profile should be created through TADDM server GUI. Profile should include the sensors for those applications that administrator wants TADDM to discover. Refer to section 2.1 for details about sensors that needs to be mandatorily included/excluded from the created discovery profile.
Running Script
To run discovery, script “runBigFixDiscovery.sh” is to be executed from $COLLATION_HOME/bin. The script can be executed in 4 modes ‘discovery’, ‘poll’, ‘cleanup’ and ‘rediscovery’. In discovery mode, the discovery is started. In poll mode, current discovery status will be fetched. In cleanup mode, the result files cleanup will be triggered on BigFix root server and In rediscovery mode, the previously run Discovery can be executed again.
Discovery Result Processing
The poll mode of the “runBigFixDiscovery.sh” command gives the status of the Action executed at each BigFix endpoint. Based on the status, the result file will be created and processed.

Parent topic: TADDM Bigfix Integration