The BigFix Team is pleased to announce a new release of BigFix Virtual Endpoint Manager.
The main reasons to upgrade to this release are as follows:
Provide basic virtual operations on Cloud Providers.
- AWS
- 731 Amazon Web Services discovered resources start
- 733 Amazon Web Services discovered resources stop
- 735 Amazon Web Services discovered resources restart
- GCP
- 736 Google Cloud Platform discovered resources start
- 737 Google Cloud Platform discovered resources stop
- 738 Google Cloud Platform discovered resources restart
- Azure
- 739 Microsoft Azure discovered resources start
- 740 Microsoft Azure discovered resources stop
- 741 Microsoft Azure discovered resources restart
Additional information about this release
*Published site and components version:
Virtual Endpoint Manager - Site Version: 73
Deprecation announcement for the management extender:
As you know, with recent Virtual Endpoint Manager and Patches for ESXi releases, it is now possible to exercise the related use cases leveraging the VMWare Plugin delivered previously:
This makes the VMWare Management Extender redundant.
The VMWare Plugin has several advantages with respect to the Extender, including better performance, higher scalability, and correlation of discovered VMs with related BigFix agents.
Based on this replacement, we are now announcing the deprecation of the VMWare Management Extender that is delivered in the Virtual Endpoint Manager and Patches for ESXi sites.
This component will no longer be supported after June 30th, 2025 .
The content (fixlets and dashboard to manage the Extender) available in the mentioned sites will be marked as deprecated, and will be removed after the end of support date.
Please note: To leverage the VMWare plugin with Virtual Endpoint Manager and Patches for ESXi you need to be at BigFIx Platform version 10.0.12+ or 11.0.2+.
To upgrade your environment and leverage the VMWare plugin, please refer to:
For more information on the VMWare Plugin, please refer to:
Useful links
*BigFix SA Virtualization Documentation:
PatchesForESXI
Virtual Endpoint Management
– HCL BigFix – Lifecycle Team