The BigFix Scanner Team is proud to announce the new version of the BigFix Scanner update 11.0.38.1
Published sites:
BigFix Scanner version 4
Use the new BigFix Scanner site for this and the future updates. Refresh the License Overview Dashboard, enable the new site, and subscribe to the endpoints.
Key features in this update:
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This release includes the preview of the new Windows File System Cache for use by existing BigFix Inventory actions. The Activate Preview Features fixlet is available to enable the preview feature. This optional task is not applicable for any other previous version of the Scanner.
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New Fixlet to install scanner v9.2.35 with support for Linux systems with older versions of glibc.so.6 and libstdc++ libraries.
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Selected scanner fixes.
To view the details related to the preview feature and scanner defects that were fixed in this update, refer to the release notes https://support.bigfix.com/scanner/BigFix-Scanner-11.0.38.1-ReleaseNotes.pdf .
The BigFix team published a set of articles explaining the change related to the new Scanner site, scanner naming, versioning, common and product specific fixlets. For details refer to the release notes https://support.bigfix.com/scanner/BigFix-Scanner-11.0.38.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf or the BigFix Scanner documentation.
Actions needed:
Use the new BigFix Scanner site for this and the future updates. Refresh the License Overview Dashboard, enable the new site, and subscribe to the endpoints.
IMPORTANT! After the BigFix Scanner Site refresh, run the one-time action: ‘Create Scanner Wrapper for Scanner version 11.0.0.0 (9.2.35) or lower’ for all relevant endpoints. If this action was already run during the previous update, then it can be ignored now. This action enables the use of the new BigFix Scanner site content, including Analysis.
Then follow the standard install and upgrade procedure using the Install or Upgrade scanner fixlet from the BigFix Scanner site.
The complete upgrade procedure and post-upgrade steps are available in the product documentation:
Upgrading the scanner.
For more information about how to install, maintain, and use the BigFix Scanner, refer to
BigFix Scanner.
– The BigFix Scanner Team