BigFix Inventory: Application Update 11.0.8.0 published 2026-07-08

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Product:
BigFix Inventory application update 11.0.8.0

Published site:

BigFix Inventory version 17

Features:

Key features in HCL BigFix Inventory 11.0.8.0:

  • AI Management

    • Discover AI wherever it enters your environment, including plugins, agents, gateways, and MCP connections.

    • Assess every tool with full context: compliance status, data location, vendor details, and risk level

    • Govern spend by helping finance and procurement track AI usage, renewals, duplicate tools, and department-level costs.

For more details, refer to AI Management

  • Health Check dashboard enhancements
    • New list with Issues sorted by status and number of computers with drill down option
    • Dedicated widgets referring to new computers and new software processed by continuous discovery after the standard import
    • Software Scan Status information is refreshed by the continuous discovery process

For more details, refer to Health Check

  • Main menu and navigation changes
    • Reports section replaced with groups Dashboard, Audit Reports, Software, Hardware, Procurement.
    • The SaaS Management option moved from the main bar to the left menu.
    • Management section renamed to Administration.

For more details, refer to Application menu structure

  • Software Classification report enhancements

    • New column IBM Product Bundle Eligible is available for selection
    • Assign to Product and IBM Product Bundle in one action

  • Idea BFINV-I-477 : All Metrics report enhancements - parity with IBM License Metric Tool

    • The Product Name column offers links to Software Installations report
    • The Metric Quantity column offers links to metric quantity details.

  • BigFix Inventory 11.0.8 is an equivalent to IBM License Metric Tool 9.2.43.X for IBM Virtualization Capacity reporting.

The BigFix Inventory 11.0.8 is an IBM-approved tool. For details refer to the IBM BFI FAQ document

Note: The scanner equivalent is BigFix Scanner v11.0.43.0. For details refer to the platform announcements and the scanner release notes

  • New Automated Bundling Assistant
    • Product selected based on existing buildings in environment and entitled software
    • Bundling rules : computer scope, environment scope, final tie breaker
    • New Bundling evidence information is available in the Details panel in the Software Classification report. This information is available through the Rest API as well
    • New Allowed Bundlings report available under Administration and Catalog section. It can be used to filter by specific component and product to review bundling options.
    • Improved performance of the Assign Components to Products action

For more details, refer to the release notes.

  • The Continuous Discovery Processing enhancements

    • Computer health attributes are refreshed for the processed computer
    • Catalog updates and customizations are processed by continuous discovery. Catalog based discovery step is moved from the standard import to background process run after the import.

  • Data partitioning for Microsoft SQL Server to optimize software reports response time when historical data grows

    • Enabled by default for fresh BigFix Inventory server installation
    • For the BigFix Inventory server upgraded to v11.0.8 follow specific procedure to enable it when convenient. The procedure is linked to the upgrade Fixlet.

  • Usability and serviceability enhancements

    • Oracle Measurements - added log prefixes to filter and isolate issues, removed redundant logs, removed confusing INCOMPLETE prefix from report name
    • VM Managers and VM Managers Tool Rest API extended to support configuration for all VM Manager Tools (addressed central tool limitation).

  • Catalog 20260615 is included in the server package

    • AI tools discovery and new AI attributes feed are a source for AI Management dashboard. This content will be updated periodically. Refer to the catalog 20260615 release notes for content details.
    • Bundling information adjusted on top resulting in version update to 20260626

  • FIPS 140-3 support

  • Ideas BFINV-I-98, BFINV-I-450, BFINV-I-455: New Single Sign-On SAML Based User Auto Provisioning functionality.

  • Support for new systems and platforms

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 on x86 and POWER by using the disconnected scanner

  • Security enhancements

    • Open Liberty was upgraded to version 26.0.0.5
    • Java JRE was upgraded to version 21.0.11.0 for all components
    • 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 11.0.8.0, run the Upgrade to the latest version of BigFix Inventory Fixlet from the BigFix console and the BigFix Inventory site.

Note: BigFix servers running version 10.x must trust their own SSL certificate to correctly cache Inventory catalog files. For details refer to the release notes.

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.

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,

Note:In the future BigFix Inventory 11.0.10 release (December 2026), default data processing mode will be switched to Continuous Discovery. This change is intended to accelerate transition towards near real‑time observability

Please note that importing scan data through the regular (legacy) import process will be deprecated.

– The BigFix Inventory Team

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Our Dev/QA and Prod instances on v11.0.7 were updated today.

No issues found so far, though we are not in full production yet with Inventory. Coming soon though.

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Update

We have found an issue and are working through some testing… We have a Prof Services engagement right now so checking with him. There could be a ticket open soon…

but the issue is with LDAP/AD and user provisioning. If a user authenticated and was provisioned already on v11.07 or earlier OR is assigned manually, then the user can log in. If the user has never logged in and we have a rule for user provisioning, there is an error and the user cannot login. So in another words, automatic provisioning is not working with LDAP/AD.

There is a call out in documentation for SSO and user provisioning. Even though that is not related to LDAP/AD, we did try enabling that feature, but saw no change.

Related documentation: Upgrading BigFix Inventory from version 11.0.x to 11.0.8

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We have 100% validated it’s a problem with v11.0.8 codebase. We will be putting in a ticket.

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Schema update is looping for us.

We see this in the tema log over and over and over.

[7/14/26, 22:33:19:349 UTC] 0000324c SystemOut O 2026-07-14 22:33:19 WARN: Changed database context to 'msdb'.
[7/14/26, 22:33:19:485 UTC] 0000324c SystemOut O 2026-07-14 22:33:19 INFO: Completed 200 OK in 953ms (Views: 950.1ms | GC: 0.0ms)
[7/14/26, 22:33:19:651 UTC] 000000a4 SystemOut O 2026-07-14 22:33:19 INFO: 1773155292_match_cleanup.rb: deleted 100000 rows from sam.file_rule_matches_persistent
[7/14/26, 22:33:34:684 UTC] 00003283 SystemOut O 2026-07-14 22:33:34 INFO: Started GET "/setup/update" for 10.17.66.65 at 2026-07-14 22:33:34 +0000
[7/14/26, 22:33:34:689 UTC] 00003283 SystemOut O 2026-07-14 22:33:34 INFO: Processing by SetupController#update as HTML

Run out of fingers counting the number of times an upgrade for BFI takes a dirt nap.

Extremely disappointed.

Case was opened, yay!

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Hi! For sure we will look at the complete logs in the case to review.

Regarding the logs like:

1773155292_match_cleanup.rb: deleted 100000 rows from sam.file_rule_matches_persistent

In BFI 11.0.8 we have identified and fixed issue with orphaned data entries for: signature, rules and the matches and there are 3 separate migration scripts.

As our good practice we keep the transaction small and put updates in the logs for every successful batch of 10000 records so there is clear that database upgrade is progressing and not stale. So it should not indicate looping but rather progressing over the batches.

As I wrote we will take a closer look at the logs, however I hope that upgrade at the end completes successfully.

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In the import log there are also provided information about the number of the records to be process during the Upgrade:

For example:

1773155292_match_cleanup.rb: 10808 rows to delete from sam.file_rule_matches_persistent

will result is having two logs:
1773155292_match_cleanup.rb: deleted 100000 rows from sam.file_rule_matches_persistent
1773155292_match_cleanup.rb: deleted 808 rows from sam.file_rule_matches_persistent

If anyone is will to check how many records needs to be removed for File Rule Matches here is the query:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT m.id) AS total
FROM sam.file_rule_matches_persistent m
LEFT JOIN sam.file_rules r ON r.id = m.file_rule_id
WHERE r.id IS NULL

If the number is high (more than 100 000) operation will take longer. There are other tables cleaned up as well, but usually rest if much more smaller in size than the File Fact related.

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After many many hours, the schema update completed. This is why [bigfix.ideas.hcl-software.com/ideas/BFINV-I-524] is badly needed.

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Where is the 11.0.8 document for this Configuring the server to achieve FIPS compliance

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Update on LDAP issue.

We received a hotfix from HCL today. We will replacing our internally developed hotfix and will see what happens shortly.

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It is available here: Configuring FIPS 140-3 Support in Version 11 documentation.

There is preserved documentation for not longer supported version 10 and link you have shared is pointing to Version 10 documentation.

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The BigFix Inventory and BigFix Scanner sites have been refreshed. See related BigFix Inventory 11.0.8.0 Site Refresh - Release Announcements / Inventory (Release Announcements) - BigFix Forum and BigFix Scanner 11.0.43.0 Site Refresh - Release Announcements / Platform (Release Announcements) - BigFix Forum

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The site has been refreshed (v19) to include the hotfix for KB0132304 in the Upgrade Fixlet. The Upgrade Fixlet includes also hotfix for KB0132685 for specific upgrade scenarios from BigFix Inventory v11.0.6 and earlier. For details refer to BigFix Inventory 11.0.8.0 Site Refresh - Release Announcements / Inventory (Release Announcements) - BigFix Forum

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