Relation of maintenance contact and Bigfix patches

How the patches is relating with the patches ? Since Bigfix patches is able to download openly I don’t see there is any legal issue to patch.

In this context, BigFix provides automation around the patch compliance assessment and remediation delivery mechanism across the environment, across a wide range of platforms and at scale. BigFix does not provide or create the patches themselves. As such, maintenance & support contracts with the vendors that provide/create the patches are required, and are handled outside of BigFix.

Here’s an example of how this is handled with RedHat Subscription Management: https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_RH/t_creating_rhsm_certificate_entitlement.html

It doesn’t mean I could no install the patches myself, right?

You certainly can install the patches manually/yourself…in such cases, BigFix will still accurately report the patch status of the machine.