BigFix Inventory: Application Update 11.0.9.0 published 2026-09-30

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Product:
BigFix Inventory application update 11.0.9.0

Published site:

BigFix Inventory version 20

Features:

Key features in HCL BigFix Inventory 11.0.9.0:

  • AI Management

    • New Blocklist and Unblock actions in the AI Management dashboard
    • AI Web Assistants inventory with a new BigFix Scanner Browser Extension. Data is presented in the AI Management dashboard and dedicated AI Web Assistants report.

    For more details, refer to the release notes.

  • Oracle Database License Optimizer dashboards
    A ready-to-use dashboards delivering AI-powered pricing insights and essential tools to optimize licenses and reduce costs, dedicated for Oracle Database products. For details, check License Optimizer: Oracle Database

  • Ideas BFINV-I-384, BFINV-I-79: Hardware Inventory data for macOS devices

    • Support for Capacity and Detailed Hardware Scans
    • Minimum requirements: macOS 12 or later, BigFix Platform Agent 11.0.6 or later, BigFix Scanner 11.0.44 or later

  • Blocklist software actions

    • Blocklist action is available now also on a Product level (Product & Metrics report supports tags)
    • New Blocklist and Unblock actions are available on Software Classification, Catalog Components and Products & Metrics. Those actions add/remove blocklist tags to selected Catalog definitions, Software Instances and Products.

  • Catalog update enhancements

    • Idea BFINV-I-101: Automatic HCL catalog update is enabled by default for fresh installation and can be also configured after the upgrade. When this option is enabled then the catalog import time does not affect the scheduled data import time.
      Note: IBM catalog is updated with server upgrade or by using dedicated Fixlet.
    • New advanced server settings are available to control when a new catalog is available to automatically download and update it on the server.
    • New option available in Management>Catalog>Server Software Catalog to apply new catalog on demand not waiting for the scheduled import. This is for configuration where automatic catalog update is disabled.
    • The Management>Catalog>Server Software Catalog panel is updated to support the enhancements above
    • Idea IDEACNCTNS-I-224: New Rest APIs for catalog import

  • Software bundling enhancements

    • A new option in the Assign Components to Product or IBM Product Bundle panel, which allows narrowing the bundling options only to products detected on selected computers
    • Allowed Bundlings report offers a new Source column.

  • Software Discovery Evidence enhancements

    • Package Data report is renamed to Application Evidence
    • Package Summary is renamed to Application Summary Evidence and it is calculated by default for All Computers (on demand option stays for remaining computer groups).
    • Scanned File Data renamed to File Evidence and moved under Software menu
    • Add signature option renamed to Classify and it is also added to the actions bar
      Note: Classification from the Application Evidence Summary is automatic based on the normalized name, vendor and version columns available in this report. Classification from the Application Evidence report allows for a simple confirmation or advanced edit option (custom catalog signature panel).

  • User interface changes

    • Login window and Users reports - labels and styles adjusted to BigFix guidelines
    • Style of selected widgets in Dashboard adjusted to BigFix guidelines
    • Table grid style adjusted to BigFix guidelines
    • Configurable table density in reports and management panels. A Comfortable density is set as default. A previous Standard density can be selected and is active for the user session time.

  • BigFix Inventory 11.0.9 is an equivalent to IBM License Metric Tool 9.2.44.X for IBM Virtualization Capacity reporting.
    The BigFix Inventory 11.0.9 is an IBM-approved tool. For details refer to the IBM BFI FAQ document: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/documents/us-en/16ddd5a57a3948f6
    Note: The scanner equivalent is BigFix Scanner v11.0.44.0. For details refer to the platform announcements and the scanner release notes: https://support.bigfix.com/scanner/BigFix-Scanner-11.0.44.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf

  • mTLS support for License Reclamation function for BigFix DEX

  • Other usability and serviceability enhancements

    • Saved Reports: Name is sorted locally to assure alphabetical and not database order.
    • BigFix Inventory installer offers more granular error codes
    • Software Summary report offers Usage Actively Monitored information
    • Unsupported Virtualization status is available in the VM Managers panel
    • The BFI utility supports an option to display the BigFix Inventory server and BFI Utility versions
    • Datasource Delete process for DB2 - stored procedure for optimal removal of large data sets

  • Catalog 20260913 is included in the server package

  • Support for new systems and platforms

    • Debian 13 (x86-64) support for the managed devices
    • VMware ESXi 9.0 is supported virtualization
    • MS SQL Server 2025 and DB2 12.1.4 and higher are supported as BigFix Inventory server database
    • Linux Red Hat Enterprise 10 x86-64 for BigFix Inventory server

  • Security enhancements

    • Open Liberty was upgraded to version 26.0.0.9
    • Java JRE was upgraded to version 21.0.12.10 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 11.0.9.0, 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.

The complete upgrade procedure and post-upgrade steps are available in the product documentation:

Upgrading the Inventory
Upgrading the Scanner

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 SAM BigFix page

Note: 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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When is BFI going to support Oracle Middleware? We asked for this like 3y ago.