BigFix Inventory Application update 10.0.6.0.1 published 2021-10-27

[marcin.socha]

Product:
BigFix Inventory application update 10.0.6.0.1

Published site version:
BigFix Inventory v10 - version 146.

Features:
Important hotfix for BigFix Inventory 10.0.6.0 to address [KB0094388] which may block connections to BigFix Database.

The hotfix is available as part of standard upgrade fixlet called “Upgrade to the latest version of BigFix Inventory (10.0.6.0.1)” and dedicated new fixlet called “Apply hotfix for KB0094388 in BigFix Inventory (10.0.6.0.1)”.

The new fixlet “Apply hotfix for KB0094388 in BigFix Inventory (10.0.6.0.1)“ is only relevant when the BFI instance is not already patched during upgrade fixlet.

For more information, please refer to the article: https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0094388

Actions needed:

• To upgrade the BigFix Inventory server to application update 10.0.6.0 with hotfix included, run the Upgrade to the latest version of BigFix Inventory (10.0.6.0.1) fixlet from the BigFix console.
• To apply the hotfix on top of already upgraded BigFix Inventory server 10.0.6.0 run the Apply hotfix for KB0094388 in BigFix Inventory (10.0.6.0.1).

For more information about how to install, maintain, and use BigFix Inventory application, refer to the user documentation: https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/inventory/welcome/BigFix_Inventory_welcome.html

The BigFix Inventory Team

[cstoneba]

This fixed an issue we saw where our BFI app server had port exhaustion since we applied 10.0.6.0 on 9/30. We were seeing a progression of up to 16000 established TCP connections over 3 days, at which point the app server would no longer be able to connect to anything on the network and a reboot was the only fix.