Welcome
BigFix and QRadar User Guide
QRadar® provides security intelligence for protecting assets and information from advanced threats. BigFix provides a dashboard that is integrated with QRadar®. This dashboard is called the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard and is located within the Endpoint Protection domain in BigFix. From this dashboard, you can view enriched vulnerability and risk data, from which you can quickly identify the computers that are most at risk. You can remediate the vulnerabilities that are detected by QRadar® and you can also quarantine or un-quarantine computers.
Overview and getting started
HCL® BigFix provides the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard from which you can view and remediate QRadar® vulnerability data. The dashboard lists the QRadar® Computer Risk Score, CVEs, and CVE risk score, which you can use to quickly identify the computers that are at risk. The dashboard provides a list of the Fixlets and Baselines that are available to take action and remediate CVEs. You can also quarantine or unquarantine computers from the Manage Vulnerable Computers Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard. An Actions tab shows the actions that you ran from the dashboard.
Operator permissions
Operators accessing the BigFix Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard and Fixlet APIs must have particular read/write permissions. Master operators can use the BigFix Console to change or assign permissions for operators as required.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
BigFix 10 Compliance Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Compliance documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use BigFix Compliance.
BigFix Platform
BigFix Query
Compliance Overview
BigFix Compliance helps support endpoint security throughout your organization.
Compliance Guides in PDF format
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Compliance user guides in PDF format:
Compliance Setup Guide and User Guide
BigFix Compliance Analytics is a web-based application designed to help you manage security, vulnerability, and risk assessment. The application archives security and vulnerability compliance check results to identify configuration issues and report levels of compliance toward security configuration goals.
Configuration Management (SCM)
BigFix Compliance Configuration Management (SCM) includes configurable content that is checks and checklists, which assess and manages the devices to ensure compliance standards are met.
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Add-on User Guide
BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on is a new chargeable component that provides security configuration checklists that are based the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). These compliance checks are designed to help ensure continuous compliance at every endpoint in your organization.
Client Manager for Endpoint Protection
BigFix Compliance CMEP is an effective tool to monitor the deployment and health status of various Endpoint Protection products and provide quick remediation actions to recover needed endpoint protection.
BigFix and QRadar User Guide
QRadar® provides security intelligence for protecting assets and information from advanced threats. BigFix provides a dashboard that is integrated with QRadar®. This dashboard is called the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard and is located within the Endpoint Protection domain in BigFix. From this dashboard, you can view enriched vulnerability and risk data, from which you can quickly identify the computers that are most at risk. You can remediate the vulnerabilities that are detected by QRadar® and you can also quarantine or un-quarantine computers.
- Overview and getting started
  HCL® BigFix provides the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard from which you can view and remediate QRadar® vulnerability data. The dashboard lists the QRadar® Computer Risk Score, CVEs, and CVE risk score, which you can use to quickly identify the computers that are at risk. The dashboard provides a list of the Fixlets and Baselines that are available to take action and remediate CVEs. You can also quarantine or unquarantine computers from the Manage Vulnerable Computers Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard. An Actions tab shows the actions that you ran from the dashboard.
  - At a glance
    The Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard identifies the QRadar® Computer Risk Score for each of the computers that you manage in BigFix. The dashboard also identifies the CVSS risk score associated with each CVE. Using this enriched risk assessment data from QRadar®, you can immediately identify the computers that are most at risk. The dashboard provides a list of the Fixlets and Baselines that are available for CVEs. You can run Fixlets or Baselines from the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard to remediate vulnerabilities and secure the vulnerable computers.
  - Operator permissions
    Operators accessing the BigFix Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard and Fixlet APIs must have particular read/write permissions. Master operators can use the BigFix Console to change or assign permissions for operators as required.
  - Requirements
    Ensure that your system meets the requirements for the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard to operate correctly.
  - Accessing the site
    The Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard runs from the BigFix Endpoint Protection domain. Before you can access the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard, you must acquire the QRadar Vulnerabilities site and accept the license agreement. After you acquire the QRadar Vulnerabilities site, you must gather the contents of the site to your console. You must also subscribe your computers to the site so that they can access the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard.
  - Install the plug-in
    Before you can access the QRadar® vulnerability data from the BigFix console, you must install the QRadar® plug-in in BigFix. To install the QRadar® plug-in, you run a Fixlet®. There is a separate installation Fixlet available for Windows and Linux. When running the installation Fixlet, you must target the BigFix server. After you have installed the QRadar® plug-in, you can access the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard from the BigFix Endpoint Protection domain.
- Remediate vulnerabilities
  Use the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard to view and remediate QRadar vulnerability data and quarantine or un-quarantine computers.
BigFix Client Compliance
This guide describes the BigFix Client Compliance and its solutions (BigFix Client Compliance Configuration and BigFix Client Compliance Windows (IPSec Framework)) which helps in maintaining the compliance status of the computers.
BigFix and Carbon Black integration
The HCL BigFix and Carbon Black integration allows administrators to deploy a full endpoint security solution to detect, contain, investigate, and remediate security threats and attacks on endpoints across the enterprise. The following sections provide useful information and links to the resources available for the solution.
Middleware Application Patching
BigFix Remediate
BigFix MCM

Operator permissions for the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard

Operators accessing the BigFix Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard and Fixlet APIs must have particular read/write permissions. Master operators can use the BigFix Console to change or assign permissions for operators as required.

About this task

For more information about BigFix permissions, see: Operators permissions.

Complete the following steps to set the required BigFix permissions.

Procedure

In the BigFix Console, navigate to All Content > Operators.
Select the Operator for which you want to assign permissions.
Navigate to the Details tab and set the following permissions if necessary:
1. Under Permissions, change Custom Content to Yes.
2. Under Interface Login Privileges, change Can use REST API to Yes.
Save the changes.