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BigFix Remote Control application helps to communicate between different components, clients, and endpoints within BigFix environment.
Remote Control Installation Guide
By using Remote Control you can remotely support and control thousands of PCs and servers, on an enterprise scale, from a central location or directly, in peer to peer mode.
Enable secure target registration
To prevent unauthorized targets from registering with the Remote Control server, you can enable the secure registration feature and use tokens to authenticate the target.
Enable secure target authentication in the server
The BigFix® Remote Control Server provides an installation option to enable secure registration of targets.
Enabling secure target registration after you install the server
You can enable the secure target registration feature after you install the server by editing properties in the trc.properties file.

Remote Control
BigFix Remote Control application helps to communicate between different components, clients, and endpoints within BigFix environment.
- Release notes
  A summary of changed or new features and enhancements included in BigFix Remote Control.
- Remote Control Installation Guide
  By using Remote Control you can remotely support and control thousands of PCs and servers, on an enterprise scale, from a central location or directly, in peer to peer mode.
  - Audience
  - Versions
  - Terms used in this guide
  - Overview of the Remote Controlsystem
  - Get started
    Now that you understand the terms and components available in Remote Control, you can identify which components you need to install:
  - Install the Remote Control components
    The Remote Control components can be installed in two ways. If you have access to the BigFix® console, use a deployment fixlet to install the components.
  - Utility for extracting the component installation files
    Remote Control provides a utility that you can use to extract the installation files that are required for each component.
  - Enable secure target registration
    To prevent unauthorized targets from registering with the Remote Control server, you can enable the secure registration feature and use tokens to authenticate the target.
    - Enable secure target authentication in the server
      The BigFix® Remote Control Server provides an installation option to enable secure registration of targets.
      - Enabling secure registration when you install the server
        You can enable the secure target registration feature when you install the server by using the installer program. The feature is enabled by default on a new server installation.
      - Enabling secure target registration after you install the server
        You can enable the secure target registration feature after you install the server by editing properties in the trc.properties file.
    - Add a token for secure target registration
      The BigFix® Remote Control Target provides an installation option to add a secure registration token. You can also add the token by running a Fixlet in the BigFix console.
  - Install the driver for smart card authentication
    The BigFix® Remote Control Target provides an installation option to install a virtual smart card reader driver. You can also install the driver by running a fixlet in the BigFix console.
  - Manage the component services
    After you install the Remote Control components, if you change their configuration, you can stop, start, or restart the component services.
  - Enabling email
  - Configure LDAP
  - Configure TLSv1.3
  - Federal information processing standard (FIPS 140-2) compliance in Remote Control
    The US Federal information processing standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) is a cryptographic function validation program that defines security standards for cryptographic modules that are used in IT software.
  - NIST SP800-131A compliance in Remote Control
    Remote Control version 10.0.0 components can be configured for NIST SP800-131A compliance.
  - Verifying the server installation
  - Recover from installation errors
  - Uninstall the components
  - Upgrade from previous versions
  - Maintaining the target installation
  - Properties that can be set in the target configuration
    You can configure target properties either during or after installation. The operating system on the target system determines which properties can be configured. The target properties determine the actions that can be carried out during a peer-to-peer session. If you set a server URL and set the Managed property to Yes, the actions are determined by the policies that are set on the Remote Control server.
- Remote Control Administrators Guide
  This guide is for users who want to administer Remote Control.
- Remote Control Console User Guide
- BigFix Remote Control Controller Users Guide
- Remote Control Target Users Guide
- Remote Control On-demand Target Guide
  Use Remote Control to start remote control sessions over the internet with targets that do not have the target software installed.
- Remote Control V10 Readme

Enabling secure target registration after you install the server

You can enable the secure target registration feature after you install the server by editing properties in the trc.properties file.

About this task

To enable the secure registration feature after you install the server, complete the following steps.

In the server UI select Admin > Edit properties file.
Select trc.properties from the list.
Set rc.enforce.secure.registration to true.
Ensure that the enforce.secure.endpoint.callhome and enforce.secure.endpoint.upload properties are also set to true.
Click Submit.
Click Admin > Reset Application.

You can also manually edit the properties files and set the property to true. Restart the server after you edit the file. The properties files are in the following directories:

Windows® systems

[installdir]\wlp\usr\servers\trcserver\apps\TRCAPP.ear\trc.war\WEB-INF\classes

Where installdir is the directory that the BigFix® Remote Control Server is installed. For example,


    C:\Program Files\BigFix\TRC\server\wlp\usr\servers\trcserver
\apps\TRCAPP.ear\trc.war\WEB-INF\classes

Linux® systems

[installdir]/wlp/usr/servers/trcserver/apps/TRCAPP.ear/trc.war/WEB-INF/classes

Where installdir is the directory that the BigFix® Remote Control Server is installed. For example,

 
    /opt/BigFix/TRC/server/wlp/usr/servers/trcserver/apps/TRCAPP.ear
/trc.war/WEB-INF/classes