Mac Installation Instructions
The distribution includes one DMG (mountable Disk Image file) that contains utilities and a separate PKG download for the install or upgrade package. The files are identified as 10.6 versions in the file names. To install the Mac client perform the following steps:
- Download the corresponding BigFix client package file to the Mac computer.
- Copy the PKG file to any directory and copy the masthead file for your deployment into the same directory. Ensure that the masthead file is named actionsite.afxm.
- You might optionally include a pre-defined settings file (clientsettings.cfg) in the same directory as the PKG file and the actionsite.afxm file, to create custom settings for the Mac client at installation time, for example to assign the new Client to a specific parent relay. For more information, see Mac Clients.
- Launch the PKG installer by double-clicking the PKG file (such as BESAgent-9.2.xxx.x-BigFix_MacOSXxx.x.pkg) and run through the installer. The agent starts up after the installation completes as long as the masthead file is included in the installation directory.
Note:
- The agent uninstaller is available in the .pkg install. It is located in: /Library/BESAgent/BESAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/BESAgentUninstaller.sh
- If you want to use the Client Compliance API on the Mac OSX system, you must request the client compliance library to the IBM Support team.