BigFix WebUI new release available! (December 2021)

[adinia]

HCL Software is pleased to announce an update to BigFix WebUI!

The main features in this release are as follows:

Device document and Patch document have been redesigned. In Device document a new and improved data layout is now available: for devices with multiple representations (i.e., BigFix agent and Cloud), a better view of the data from the different representations is available.

Deployments page has a new design with improved UX and data density, advanced filtering and sorting capabilities. It is also possible to search an action by ID, and delete expired/stopped deployments.

WebUI Take Action now honors action settings locks: when a fixlet has been configured to leverage locks on parameters or deployment options, these locks are now respected also when deploying from the WebUI.

Improve AWS discovery efficiencies by selecting the AWS regions to be scanned
You now have a better control on discovering cloud endpoints in the AWS cloud by optionally filtering specific AWS regions to be scanned during the endpoint discovery process.
Note: this feature requires BigFix Platform version 10.0.5 or later.

Query application has been redesigned to make better use of display area at different resolutions. You can now target devices for Query pasting in a list of computers (manual targeting). In the “Build Relevance” wizard it is now possible to use math operators (greater than, less than) when creating a filter using a numeric property.

Patch policies has more intuitive search, filtering, and sorting options. It is now possible to configure a policy so that the related actions are sent down as offers. Patch policies now also provides support for Windows 11, Windows Server 2022, MacOS, Amazon Linux 2, SLES on Z.

Security Updates included in this WebUI release:

Node: CVE-2021-22918, CVE-2021-3672/CVE-2021-22931, CVE-2021-22930, CVE-2021-22940, CVE-2021-22939
jszip: CVE-2021-23413

Resolved Defect Articles:
KB0094740 (doc): Procedure to configure SSL certificates for WebUI
KB0094390: The “Cloud Tags” column value is not exported
KB0094342: Nervous click on the deploy button can create multiple copies of the same action
KB0093836: Error exporting report with “State AWS” column
KB0093720: Non Master Operator unable to complete login if UserHash changes
KB0093362: Cannot gather some WebUI sites in air-gapped environments
KB0093596: WebUI login can take very long time on the Loading Device Groups step
KB0093332: Usability issues in WebUI after the Apps update on July 2021
KB0093329: WebUI can take very long time to initialize
KB0092825 (doc): Incorrect WebUI 9.5 documented requirements
KB0092589: Unable to select “Run all member actions of action group regardless of errors” while deploying Group Action through WebUI.
KB0092547: Select All Patch Restricted in WebUI Deploy Patch Page
KB0092538: Reset filters for grp not showing relevant patches for grp
KB0092490 (doc): WebUI database cleaner script is not complete
KB0092439: WebUI may take a long time to load computer groups
KB0091574: Web-Based SSO does not work when SAML auth is used
KB0090724: CIS Checklist for RHEL 8 site is not visible
KB0090338: WebUI login can take very long time on the Loading Device Deployments step
KB0093082: WebUI Nested folders
KB0094944 : Handling special characters (Chinese, Japanese) in Query
KB0087191: Duplicate policies in the Patch Policies list
KB0091190: Patch policies not launching on schedule
KB0093014: New policy created not showing up in 10.0.4
KB0085272: ‘Send File’ using Web-UI fails when not using standard port 52311
KB0092806: Self-Service Application Change icon does not apply on icon on taskbar

How to update

WebUI will update automatically by default, unless configured otherwise.

Published WebUI Site Versions

WebUI Site Name	Version
Application Administration	23
Common	66
Custom	33
MDM	7
Patch	32
Patch Policies	23
Profile Management	16
Query	25
Software Distribution	36
WebUI API	9
WebUI CMEP	4
WebUI Content App	12
WebUI Data Sync	17
WebUI Framework	16
WebUI Permissions and Preferences	11
WebUI Reports	6
WebUI Take Action	17

WebUI Documentation link:
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/webui/index.html

– The BigFix WebUI Team

[tristan_inlayo]

Improve AWS discovery efficiencies by selecting the AWS regions to be scanned
You now have a better control on discovering cloud endpoints in the AWS cloud by optionally filtering specific AWS regions to be scanned during the endpoint discovery process.
Note: this feature requires BigFix Platform version 10.0.5 or later.

• Can we elaborate more about this endpoint discovery?

[adinia]

Hello, BigFix provides the capability to discover endpoints on public clouds: AWS, GCP and Azure, in additionl to VMWare Vsphere. This happens through the provider APIs.
Once endpoints are discovered and available in BigFix, the agent can be installed on those.
Please refer to product documentation for additional information

https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_cloudintroduction.html