The Relays.dat file is created in the actionsite of the deployment and is found on TEM Client computers at C:\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client\__BESData\actionsite.
Relays.dat contains information used in the TEM relay selection algorithm.
The relays.dat file is not human readable, however you can turn it into a human readable format by using the ParseRelaysDotDat.exe tool (http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/util/ParseRelaysDotDat.exe)
The tool has recently been updated to format the following relay affiliation information.
For each entry in the Relays.dat file, the tool prints out:
Affiliation :
"Unaffiliated" if this Relay does not advertise any affiliation, otherwise the Relay's affiliation group Name :
The host name of the Relay
Port:
Should always be the same as the deployment port (usually 52311)
Priority :
The priority group of this Relay (all "0" Relays are tried before all "1" Relays, etc.)
Weight :
The relative weight of this Relay next to other Relays that appear to be at the same distance.
If a Relay has multiple affiliations, it will have multiple entries in the Relays.dat file, one for each affiliation. Thus, if you want to see all the affiliations of a single Relay, you'll have to search through the output for all occurrences of that Relay name.
Example 1:
>ParseRelaysDotDat.exe Relays.dat
Name: Darkwing.bigfix.com.
Port: 52311
Priority: 0
Weight: 0
Example 2:
>ParseRelaysDotDat.exe Relays.dat
Name: TEMClientR1.
Port: 52311
Priority: 0
Weight: 100
Name: TEMClientR1.
Port: 52311
Priority: 0
Weight: 100
Name: TEMClientR1.
Port: 52311
Priority: 0
Weight: 100
Name: temsupp1.
Port: 52311
Priority: 0
Weight: 0
These relays in these examples have not been configured for affiliation