BigFix Action Language Reference

BigFix Action

Language Reference

A Guide to the

BigFix? Action Shell Commands for

the BigFix Enterprise Suite (BES)

BigFix, Inc.

Emeryville, CA

Last Modified: September 8, 2007

Compatible with

BES Version 7.0

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Contents

PREFACE

1

CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS MANUAL...................................................1

EXAMPLES .........................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION

2

USING ACTION SCRIPTS

3

CREATING ACTION SCRIPTS ................................................................3

USING SUBSTITUTION .........................................................................4

FILE SYSTEM COMMANDS

6

COPY ................................................................................................6

MOVE ................................................................................................6

DELETE .............................................................................................7

DOWNLOAD ........................................................................................8

DOWNLOAD AS .................................................................................10

DOWNLOAD NOW AS .........................................................................11

PREFETCH .......................................................................................12

UTILITY ............................................................................................14

APPENDFILE .....................................................................................15

CREATEFILE UNTIL ............................................................................16

ARCHIVE NOW ..................................................................................17

EXTRACT .........................................................................................17

RELAY SELECT .................................................................................18

SETTING COMMANDS

19

SETTING ..........................................................................................19

SETTING DELETE ..............................................................................20

REGISTRY COMMANDS

22

REGSET ...........................................................................................22

REGDELETE .....................................................................................23

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EXECUTION COMMANDS

25

DOS ................................................................................................25

RUN ................................................................................................26

RUNDETACHED .................................................................................26

RUNHIDDEN .....................................................................................27

WAIT ...............................................................................................28

WAITDETACHED ................................................................................29

WAITHIDDEN ....................................................................................30

SCRIPT ............................................................................................31

NOTIFY CLIENT FORCEREFRESH ........................................................31

APPLICATION LAUNCH PREFERENCE LOW-PRIORITY .............................32

APPLICATION LAUNCH PREFERENCE NORMAL-PRIORITY ........................33

COMMENTS

34

DOUBLE FORWARDSLASH ..................................................................34

FLOW CONTROL COMMANDS

35

IF, ELSEIF, ELSE, ENDIF .....................................................................35

PARAMETER .....................................................................................38

CONTINUE IF ....................................................................................39

PAUSE WHILE ...................................................................................39

ACTION REQUIRES RESTART ..............................................................40

ACTION MAY REQUIRE RESTART .........................................................40

ACTION REQUIRES LOGIN...................................................................41

ACTION PARAMETER QUERY ..............................................................41

SET CLOCK ......................................................................................42

RESTART .........................................................................................43

SHUTDOWN ......................................................................................43

ADMINISTRATIVE RIGHTS COMMANDS

45

ADMINISTRATOR ADD ........................................................................45

ADMINISTRATOR DELETE ...................................................................45

LOCKING COMMANDS

46

ACTION LOCK UNTIL ..........................................................................46

ACTION LOCK INDEFINITE ...................................................................46

ACTION UNLOCK ...............................................................................47

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SITE MAINTENANCE COMMANDS

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SITE FORCE EVALUATION ...................................................................48

SITE GATHER SCHEDULE PUBLISHER...................................................48

SITE GATHER SCHEDULE MANUAL .......................................................48

SITE GATHER SCHEDULE DISABLE .......................................................49

SITE GATHER SCHEDULE SECONDS.....................................................49

SUBSCRIBE ......................................................................................50

UNSUBSCRIBE ..................................................................................50

WOW64

51

ACTION USES WOW64 REDIRECTION ...................................................51

REGSET64.......................................................................................52

REGDELETE64 .................................................................................53

SCRIPT64 ........................................................................................54

INDEX

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