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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.
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.
Starting, stopping, or restarting the Linux™ components
You can start, stop, or restart the Remote Control Linux™ components from within the Control Panel.

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.
  - 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.
    - Starting, stopping, or restarting the Windows™ components
      You can start, stop, or restart the Remote Control Windows™ components from within the Control Panel.
    - Starting, stopping, or restarting the Linux™ components
      You can start, stop, or restart the Remote Control Linux™ components from within the Control Panel.
  - 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

Starting, stopping, or restarting the Linux™ components

You can start, stop, or restart the Remote Control Linux™ components from within the Control Panel.

About this task

Depending on the version of Linux™ you are using, use one of the following commands to manage the components.

/sbin/service component action
/etc/init.d/component action

Where component is the component service that you want to manage and action is start, stop, or restart.

Server

For example, to start the server service.

/sbin/service trcserver start
/etc/init.d/trcserver start

Target

For example, to stop the target service.

/sbin/service trctarget stop
/etc/init.d/trctarget stop

Gateway

For example, to restart the gateway service.

/sbin/service trcgateway restart
/etc/init.d/trcgateway restart

Broker

For example, to restart the broker service.

/sbin/service trcbroker restart
/etc/init.d/trcbroker restart