Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Creating a fixlet to identify deployment of NMA agent from Big Fix Server.

All opinions are my own and does not reflect that of my employers.

NMA is the network montoring agent - an agent developed by IBM that helps in detection of servers on the network and report on their characteristics.

Big Fix is an IBM Application that is being used to detect clients that need patches/ installation of software or bringing servers upto sync on new releases.
Big Fix is also called Tivoli Endpoint Manager after IBM bought it over.
So references to TEM or Big FixServer are one and the same.

In this blog I will briefly describe how to deploy the NMA agent on remote clients.
I'd assume that the the agent is already available on the Big Fix server and can be used to deploy.

Create New Fixlet. 

Creating the relevance rules - this means that the relevance rules have to be true in order for the agent to be deployed.

 
Create a script that will be executed on the remote client once the relevance rule is satisfied.

A sample Relevance Rule to check if the Tivoli NMA agent is installed or
not in Big Fix.
Relevance:

Action :

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