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:
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AI Management
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Discover AI wherever it enters your environment, including plugins, agents, gateways, and MCP connections.
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Assess every tool with full context: compliance status, data location, vendor details, and risk level
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Govern spend by helping finance and procurement track AI usage, renewals, duplicate tools, and department-level costs.
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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
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Software Classification report enhancements
- New column IBM Product Bundle Eligible is available for selection
- Assign to Product and IBM Product Bundle in one action
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
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FIPS 140-3 support
- For details refer to FIPS security
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Ideas BFINV-I-98, BFINV-I-450, BFINV-I-455: New Single Sign-On SAML Based User Auto Provisioning functionality.
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Support for new systems and platforms
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 on x86 and POWER by using the disconnected scanner
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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.
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