BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation 1.4 is now available

[Aram]

The BigFix team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.4 of the BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation application (included in the BigFix Lifecycle and Compliance suites). This application enables IT Security and Operations teams to collaborate much more effectively by automatically correlating discovered vulnerabilities to their proper remediations, while providing prioritization data to focus remediation efforts.

The main features of this release are as follows:

• Simplified Deployment, Configuration, and Management of IVR through Fixlets
  • You can now deploy as well as configure IVR through a single Fixlet to get up and running that much more quickly and easily! For more information, please see the ‘Deployment and configuration’ section of the documentation
  • Additional Tasks are available to simplify general management of IVR including data synchronization schedules, credentials, and service states. Please see the ‘IVR Fixlets and Tasks’ section of the documentation for more information.

Additional information about this release:

• Please find the ‘BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation’ Fixlet Site from the License Overview Dashboard under the Lifecycle or Compliance Sections
  • For more information on enabling sites, please see https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Console/c_license_overview_dashboard.html

Published site version: 10

Useful links

• Documentation: https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/integrations/Ecosystem/Install_Config/c_welcome.html
• Insights for Vulnerability Remediation Schema: https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/integrations/Ecosystem/Schema/c_IVR_schema.html
• Learn more on our Product Page: https://www.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/ivr-home

[itsmpro92]

Update: I’ve opened Case CS0320430 for this.

@Aram FYI - In my current v1.3 installation, the client setting bfivr_install_path is not present, instead the setting is called BFIVR_InstallationPoint, so the Service uninstall fixlet, while relevant, fails on the first actionscript line. I had to create the setting manually to proceed with uninstalling v1.3.

Unfortunately, the uninstall failed to actually remove the service from the registry. The installation folder is gone, but the service definition remains.

Here is a snippet from the uninstall log:

“Uninstalling Service”
Python path configuration:
PYTHONHOME = ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BFIVR’
PYTHONPATH = (not set)
program name = ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BFIVR\BFIVR.exe’
isolated = 0
environment = 0
user site = 0
import site = 0
sys._base_executable = ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BFIVR\BFIVR.exe’
sys.base_prefix = ‘’
sys.base_exec_prefix = ‘’
sys.executable = ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BFIVR\BFIVR.exe’
sys.prefix = ‘’
sys.exec_prefix = ‘’
sys.path = [
‘C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BFIVR\base_library.zip’,
‘C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BFIVR’,
]
Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘encodings’

Current thread 0x00004348 (most recent call first):

“Uninstall Complete”