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Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
Fixlets and Tasks
Viewing Relevance Expressions
When a Fixlet message becomes relevant to some computer in your network, you might want to know exactly what triggered it, and what action is suggested.

Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
- Accessing the console
  The console is the visible face of BigFix, used by the operator to monitor and repair networked computers running the BigFix client.
- Fixlets and Tasks
  - Introducing Fixlets and Tasks
    Fixlets and Tasks are central to BigFix.
  - Differences between Fixlets and tasks
    If you look at the details in the Fixlet and task definition on the BigFix console, you see the same entries. What makes the difference between the two are the scope and the default behavior.
  - Viewing Fixlets and Tasks
    How to display a Fixlet or a Task.
  - Monitoring Fixlets and Tasks
    When a Fixlet or Task becomes relevant somewhere in your network, BigFix adds it to the list available under the Fixlets and Tasks icon in the Domain Panel navigation tree.
  - Commenting on Fixlets and Tasks
    You can attach a comment to a Fixlet or Task that other operators can read.
  - Creating or Customizing Fixlets and Tasks
    How to create your own custom Fixlet or Task message from scratch.
  - Hiding Fixlets and Tasks
    You can hide a Fixlet or Task.
  - Viewing Relevance Expressions
    When a Fixlet message becomes relevant to some computer in your network, you might want to know exactly what triggered it, and what action is suggested.
  - Introducing Relevance
    To quickly and non-invasively inspect various aspects of a computer, the Relevance Language was created.
- Actions
  Actions are scripts that run on selected targets. They are used to fix policy violation and security exposures and to run configuration steps. Fixlet, tasks, and baselines depend on actions to run their remediation mission.
- Sites
- Domains
- Roles
- Client Computers
- Computer Groups
- Analyses
- Baselines
- Relays and Servers
- Activating the license counting process
  How to activate the license counting process.
- Displays and Reports
- Menus
- The Dialogs
- Disabling local operators on BigFix Console
  Starting from BigFix Version 10.0.8, you can decide to disable the local operators from logging into the BigFix Console, to use LDAP operators instead.

Viewing Relevance Expressions

When a Fixlet message becomes relevant to some computer in your network, you might want to know exactly what triggered it, and what action is suggested.

This is easy to investigate, because these items are written in the Relevance Language, which is a human-readable language for probing and acting on computers.

To view Relevance Expressions:

Click a Fixlet message from any Fixlet List Panel to open a detailed Fixlet document in the Work Area below.
Select the Details tab.

This opens a page listing various Properties and below that, the Relevance clauses and Action scripts:

This window displays a selected Details tab at the top. It also displays a page listing various Properties and the Relevance clauses and Action scripts.

This window shows you how the computer is interrogated and why it has been triggered as relevant. Typically there are multiple Relevance clauses that are all ANDed together to determine if a given BigFix Client is affected.

Scroll down to view the Action script.