Read this guide for an introduction to BigFix Insights. Learn the concepts, terminology, and how to get started with using the feature.
Welcome to the BigFix Insights documentation, where you can find information about how to setup your BigFix Insights and generate Tableau workbooks. The Insights feature of BigFix 10 provides you with advanced analytics and visualizations that you can use to identify risks in your environment and make appropriate decisions.
The Insights feature of BigFix 10 provides you with advanced analytics and visualizations that you can use to identify risks in your environment and make appropriate business decisions.
This section contains links to the Insights guides in PDF format.
BigFix Insights is an application-driven extract, transform, and load (ETL) that helps you consolidate all the BigFix data into a single data warehouse.
This section describes in detail about adding, deleting, and editing a datasource in BigFix 10 Insights. Datasource represents an existing BigFix Enterprise (BFEnterprise) database containing Fixlets, analyses, computers, sites, and results that Insights uses to visualize important data across your organization. Multiple datasources can be added to Insights to consolidate and correlate data for endpoints spread across multiple BigFix Enterprise Servers. In each datasource, individual sites can be added or excluded for use in BigFix Insights. Matching sites across multiple datasources are represented as a Linked Item in Insights. Each deployment of bigfix has a unique identifier that we use internally to differentiate between datasources you might consume with insights. That identifier is the ActionsiteEpoch. At present, we support a single datasource per BFEnterprise installation.
Learn more about Linked Items in BigFix 10 Insights.
The ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process pulls data from a datasource and stores it in the Insights' database. An ETL process may consume significant time and resources and hence it is run on a customizable schedule to minimize disruption. In BigFix Insights, you can schedule an ETL daily, weekly, or monthly and also determine the history of an ETL for a datasource and a set of ETLs for all datasources.
This topic describes how to view the activities history and export the logs.
Learn how to update the BigFix Insights WebUI application.
Microsoft Power BI Desktop is a tool that helps you present the data that BigFix generates in a meaningful and comprehensible way. You can add an existing Power BI Report to your BigFix Insights implementation.
Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server are powerful tools that help you present the valuable data that BigFix generates in a meaningful and ingestible way. This chapter describes how to add an existing Tableau Workbook to your BigFix Insights implementation.
This topic describes how to create, edit and delete custom attributes.
The tables in this section provide detailed information about the BigFix 10 Insights schema.
Learn more about the best practices in BigFix 10 Insights.
This topic helps you in troubleshooting various issues encountered in BigFix 10 Insights.
This topic lists out the change log in BigFix Insights.
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the Modern Client Management for BigFix software and products.
