Welcome
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.
BigFix Compliance Analytics User Guide
BigFix Compliance Analytics is a component of BigFix Compliance, that includes technical controls and tools that are based on industry practices and standards for endpoint and server security configuration.
Management Tasks
The following management tasks can be performed if you have appropriate permissions.
Directory Servers

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:
SCM Checklists Guide
This SCM Checklists page provides information about the compliance checklists supported by BigFix Compliance, including frameworks, supported platforms, and checklist versions.
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.
- BigFix Compliance Analytics Setup Guide
- BigFix Compliance Analytics User Guide
  BigFix Compliance Analytics is a component of BigFix Compliance, that includes technical controls and tools that are based on industry practices and standards for endpoint and server security configuration.
  - Introduction
  - General Usage Concepts
  - Management Tasks
    The following management tasks can be performed if you have appropriate permissions.
    - Computer Groups
    - Configuring multiple computer groups
    - Computer Properties
    - Data Sources
    - Domain Settings
    - Data Imports
    - Enabling mail settings
      You must configure outbound email in mail settings to schedule an export to an email recipient. The patch report can be sent to multiple email recipients.
    - Notifications
      You can create email notifications using this section.
    - Roles
    - Server Settings
      Configure server settings including HTTP port, SSL, TLS, data retention, and SSL certificate expiry notifications.
    - Directory Servers
    - Configuring connection to a directory server
      To use LDAP for authentication of BigFix Compliance License Metric Tool users, you must first configure a connection to your directory server.
    - Session Settings
      You can change your session settings to specify the session time for a logged in user who is inactive for a certain period and to custom the message on the login page using Markdown text.
    - Single Sign-On (SSO) settings
      This section provides information on the different Single sign-on (SSO) settings.
    - System Options
      Use System Options too add WebUI URL in Compliance's report.
    - Users
    - User Provisioning
    - Integrating users with Web Reports
      You can use the Web Reports component to allow your local Web Reports users to access BigFix Compliance.
    - Account Preferences
  - Security Configuration Reporting
  - Patch Domain
    Learn more about patch domain that share a common patching context. The concept is intergral to organize and manage the patching activities across the diverse environments.
  - Vulnerability Domain
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.
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 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.
Middleware Application Patching
Middleware patching is an important process for organizations to ensure their systems are secure and up to date. By applying the appropriate patches and security updates, organizations can minimize the risk of malicious attacks and potential data loss. BigFix users can enjoy unified patch management by using a single platform for deploying database and middleware patches.
Technical References
Find technical reference material for BigFix® Compliance components. The topics in this section cover release notes, tool specifications, and version details for Compliance components, including Security Configuration Automation Protocol (SCAP), Security Compliance Analytics (SCA), and related tools.
BigFix Remediate
BigFix MCM
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the BigFix® Compliance software and products.

Directory Servers

BigFix Compliance Analytics supports authentication with directory servers through Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). You can add directory servers to BigFix Compliance Analytics so that the users can log in using credentials based on your existing authentication scheme.

To authenticate BigFix Compliance Analytics users with directory servers, you must do the following:

Add a directory server
Link a user to the directory server (See Users section).

You can also use the User Provisioning feature to automatically create users (with directory server authentication) without doing it individually from the Users menu.

(Optional) Add a user provisioning rule (See User Provisioning section).

User Permissions Required for LDAP Authentication

The following permissions or roles must be assigned to the user (bind account) that is added to the LDAP directory server:

Connect/Bind: The ability to log in to the LDAP server.
Read Properties (Read-Only): Permission to read user objects and group objects.
List Contents / Search: Permission to traverse the organizational units (OUs) within your designated Search Base (for example, OU=Users,DC=example,DC=com).

To successfully find a user and map that user to groups, the bind account needs read access only to a small number of properties. The following properties are required:

objectCategory - Distinguish user objects from group objects during the search.
sAMAccountName- Match the user by the pre-Windows 2000 logon name
userPrincipalName - Match the user by the User Principal Name, for example username@domain.com
member - Resolve the groups that the user belongs to.

Note: These property names apply when you are using an Active Directory LDAP server. Other directory server types use different property names. If your directory server does not use these names, select Other in the LDAP server list and supply the filter and attribute values for your server.