Local Data Directory

The CLI stores a configuration file and a directory tree of cached server certificates locally. By default, they are located in a .iem folder in the user profile directory /usr/{user} on Linux systems, or in %LOCALAPPDATA%\BigFix on Windows systems.

The IBM BigFix CLI session credentials are stored in that directory as well. This means that, by default, a single OS user can use only a single IBM BigFix account. If you want to allow a single OS user to connect using different IBM BigFix accounts, set the IEM_DATADIR environment variable to save the session credentials in different locations.

You can use the IEM_DATADIR environment variable to specify a different directory to use for local caching.

If a console is installed on the local Windows machine, any server certificates that was trusted by the console is implicitly trusted by the CLI as well.