Site administrator responsibilities

The site administrator has the following primary responsibilities:

Obtaining and securing the Action Site Credentials

To install IBM BigFix, the site administrator must generate a private key, receive a license certificate from IBM, and create a masthead with the digital signature and configuration information. This is a special key and must be used only for site-level tasks such as:

• Setting global system options
• Editing Mastheads
• Administering Distributed Server Architecture (DSA)

For day-to-day console operations, the site administrator must create a master operator key.

Preparing the Server

The IBM BigFix Server must be correctly set up to communicate externally with the Internet and internally with the Clients. The Server also needs to be configured to host the IBM BigFix database (or another computer can be used as the SQL Server database).

Installing the various components

The site administrator installs the IBM BigFix Client, Server, Relay, and Console modules.

Maintaining the Server

The IBM BigFix server runs an SQL Server database and several specific services. Standard maintenance tasks such as upgrades or fixes are managed using Fixlet technology or can be performed manually by the site administrator.