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    Tanium - Create Software Deployment

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    Tanium - Create Software Deployment installs, updates, or removes existing software packages preconfigured on the Tanium server from specific devices for.

    • Assets that match the results of the selected saved query, and match the Enforcement Action Conditions, if defined or assets selected on the relevant asset page.

    See Creating Enforcement Sets to learn more about adding Enforcement Actions to Enforcement Sets.

    Note:

    General Settings

    • Action name - The name of this Enforcement Action. The system sets a default name. You can change the name.
    • Configure Dynamic Values - Toggle on to enter a Dynamic Value statement. See Creating Enforcement Action Dynamic Value Statements to learn more about Dynamic Value statement syntax.

    • Use stored credentials from the Tanium Client Status adapter - Select this option to use Tanium Client Status connected adapter credentials.
      • When you select this option, the Select Adapter Connection drop-down becomes available. Select the adapter connection to use for this Enforcement Action.
    Note:

    To use this option, you must successfully configure a Tanium Client Status adapter connection.

    Required Fields

    These fields must be configured to run the Enforcement Set.

    1. Tanium Software Package ID - Software Package ID for the software to be deployed.
    2. Deployment Operation - Select the operation to run, either 'Install', 'Update' or 'Remove'.

    3. Compute Node - The Axonius node to use when connecting to the specified host. For more details, see Connecting Additional Axonius Nodes.

    Additional Fields

    These fields are optional.

    • Hostname or IP Address - The Hostname or IP address of the Tanium server that Axonius can communicate with. The adapter supports both on-premise and Tanium Cloud instances. When connecting to a Tanium Cloud instance, "-api" must be added to the end of the subdomain of your Tanium Cloud instance. For example: "domain.cloud.tanium.com" should be entered as "domain-api.cloud.tanium.com".

    • User Name or API Token ID - The credentials for a user account that has Permissions to perform this action. If an API token is being used for authentication, this must be the ID of the API token. The Token ID column in Tanium may be hidden.

    • Password or API Token - The credentials for a user account that has the Permissions to perform this action. If an API token is being used for authentication, this must be the API token string.

      Note:
      Refer to Tanium Client Status Adapter to learn more about the API Token.

    • Only fetch clients that have registered in the past N minutes - Only fetch assets that have registered with the Tanium platform within the past minutes supplied by this value. Tanium considers any agent that has not reported in the past 5 minutes as "broken". However, leave this value empty if you want to be able to build queries in Axonius that check for "broken agents". A value of 0 will disable this filter.

    • Verify SSL (optional) - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.

    • HTTPS Proxy (optional) - Connect the adapter to a proxy instead of directly connecting it to the domain.

    • Max devices per deploy (default: 10) - Set a maximum number of devices on which to run this action.

    Required Permissions

    The credentials used to connect to Tanium must have permission to create software deployments.

    For more details about other Enforcement Actions available, see Action Library.


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