Guide

Here you find the main concepts to understand how to use the Action Script Language.

Conceptually this guide can be divided into five main blocks:

Creating a Custom Action

This explains how to create and trigger custom actions from the BigFix console.

Using Substitution Variables

This explains how to take advantage of the relevance language within the action script to create scripts that are finely targeted and highly flexible.

The Prefetch Block Structure

This describes the structure that you must use to define the download required for running an action successfully.

Static and Dynamic Downloads

This explains the different methods for downloading to targets the data necessary to run the actions and successfully run the Fixlet or the task.

Action Status Messages

This lists the action statuses that each agent running the action might send back to the server while processing the action.