Product:
BigFix Inventory application update 11.0.7.0
Published site:
BigFix Inventory version 14
Features:
Key features in HCL BigFix Inventory 11.0.7.0:
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License Optimizer: A ready-to-use dashboards for Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition and Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition. For more details,refer to: License Optimizer for MSSQL
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Idea BFINV-I-433: Threshold in All Contracts can be defined now as Percentage or Fixed Value. Previously defined contracts have Fixed Value as default.
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Updated Health Check dashboard with focus on hardware scan status and software scan status and drill down to review status details. For more details, refer to:Health Check Dashboard
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New Software Scan Status information in Computers/Hardware Inventory reports.
The status information is grouped into three categories: Success, Partial and Failed and more granular information explains the reason ie. Partial: Not scanned in last 14 days, Failed: Last upload failing. For more details, refer to Software Scan Status -
Ideas BFINV-I -109, BFINV-I-261: New VM Manager Tool panel to manage configuration and installation of VM Manager tools directly from BigFix Inventory UI and enhancements to VM Managers report.
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User Interface style and colors changes in data grids and Edit Contract panel
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Idea BFINV-I-249, BFINV-I-375: Automatic bundle and confirmation for components with higher version. Component classification and instance tags are preserved in case of component upgrade on the same computer as classified before.
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The Continuous Discovery Processing enhancements
- Initial Product assignment
- Support for Disconnected Scans and Detailed Hardware Scan processing
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BigFix Inventory 11.0.7 is an equivalent to IBM License Metric Tool 9.2.42 for IBM Virtualization Capacity reporting
Note:
- The scanner equivalent - BigFix Scanner v11.0.42.0 is available under the BigFix Scanner site. For details refer to the scanner release notes
- Audit snapshot is extended with three columns: Component GUID, Product Version GUID, and IBM Product Bundle GUID.
- The new version is under certification process by IBM on the release date. To view the status of IBM validated releases, refer to Certification Status
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Usability and serviceability enhancements
- BFINV-I-461 Data Source Name added to warning log messages
- BFINV-I-511 REST API to retrieve information about utilization of license metrics per server
- Dynamic activation of debug logging without server restart
- Extended Oracle Measurement - output file size reduced by 10% and format improvements
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Catalog 20260308 is included in the server package
- Catalog extended with HCL BigFix Products and bundling options. This is an incremental update to address BFINV-I-203. Refer to the catalog release notes for details.
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Support for new systems and platforms
- Ideas BFINV-I-380, BFINV-I-398 Amazon Linux (ARM) as managed device
- Idea BFINV-I-446 BigFix Inventory server support for Amazon RDS database
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and 10 supported by VM Manager Tool
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Security enhancements
- IBM WebSphere Liberty was upgraded to Open Liberty version 26.0.0.1
- A number of other libraries have been updated.
To view the complete list of new features and defects that were fixed in this application update, refer to the release notes.
Server and tools
Catalog
Scanner
Actions needed:
To upgrade the BigFix Inventory server to application update 11.0.7.0, run the Upgrade to the latest version of BigFix Inventory Fixlet from the BigFix console and the BigFix Inventory site.
Important! It is recommended to restart the BigFix Inventory Server after successful database schema upgrade to ensure proper initialization of internal information about current database schema.
Apache Log4j configuration file (log4j2.xml) is reset to default settings during VM Manager Tool and SAP Metric Data Collector update. If the file contains user customization, it is advised to create a backup of the file before the update. After update the customization can be manually restored, according to the new file format.
The complete upgrade procedure and post-upgrade steps are available in the product documentation:
Inventory upgrade documentation
Scanner upgrade documentation
For more information about how to install, maintain, and use the BigFix Inventory application, refer to the user documentation: BigFix 11 Inventory Documentation
To find out more about Software Asset Management at BigFix, visit the BigFix page
Thank you!
– The BigFix Inventory Team