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  3. Tuning performance

    Learn how to plan the infrastructure of BigFix Inventory and to configure the application server to achieve optimal performance. The following guidelines are applicable in big data environments as well as in smaller environments that are running on low-performance hardware.

  4. REST API considerations

    You can use BigFix Inventory REST API to retrieve large amounts of data that is related to computer systems, software instances, and license usage in your environment. Such information can then be passed to other applications for further processing and analysis.

  5. Synchronizing with Data Imports
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  • Overview

    Become familiar with key concepts that are necessary to understand how BigFix Inventory works and learn about features and functions that are introduced in every version of the application.

  • Installing

    Learn about the requirements and available installation scenarios to ensure that the deployment of BigFix Inventory goes smoothly in your environment.

  • Configuring

    After you install BigFix Inventory, configure the application. Create accounts for the users who need access to the application and set up scans to collect software and hardware inventory data from your environment.

  • Upgrading

    A new version of BigFix Inventory is released periodically, typically at the end of each calendar quarter. Upgrade to the new version regularly to take full advantage of new features and application fixes.

  • Managing the infrastructure

    After you complete the initial configuration of BigFix Inventory, learn how to manage components of its infrastructure: VM managers, server, database, and data sources.

  • Software inventory and license utilization

    You can classify the discovered software so that reports in BigFix Inventory reflect your entitlements and properly show utilization of license metrics by particular products.

  • Managing security threats

    Learn how to use BigFix Inventory to manage security threats in your environment. You can view whether any of the installed components is prone to any Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE).

  • Tutorials

    Tutorials help you understand how to use BigFix Inventory. They consist of modules that focus on broad goals. Modules consist of tasks that show how to configure specific settings step-by-step.

  • Security

    Configure different security features to adequately protect business assets and resources in the data model when using BigFix Inventory.

  • Troubleshooting and support

    Learn about solutions to common problems that might arise when you use BigFix Inventory BigFix Inventory and how to find logs and trace files that help you troubleshoot those problems.

  • Tuning performance

    Learn how to plan the infrastructure of BigFix Inventory and to configure the application server to achieve optimal performance. The following guidelines are applicable in big data environments as well as in smaller environments that are running on low-performance hardware.

    • Setting up scans and import

      Learn how to improve the scanning and importing activities to optimize the performance in your infrastructure.

    • Additional tasks for improving performance

      Learn about additional tasks that you might want to perform to improve the performance in your infrastructure.

    • Tuning performance in medium and large environments

      You can learn the possible causes of the most common performance issues in medium and large environments. Follow the tips and the known solutions to these issues to keep the system in good shape and avoid performance problems.

    • REST API considerations

      You can use BigFix Inventory REST API to retrieve large amounts of data that is related to computer systems, software instances, and license usage in your environment. Such information can then be passed to other applications for further processing and analysis.

      • Optimizing response time

        Starting from 10.0.2, BigFix Inventory uses HTTP streaming for JSON responses. As a result, pagination can be omitted and the whole dataset can be fetched using a single query. The pagination feature is still available and can be used. When using the pagination feature, it is recommended to retrieve the total number of records only once and then iterate over pages.

      • Options to limit size of the individual response

        Starting from 10.0.2, BigFix Inventory uses HTTP streaming in JSON responses. In HTTP response method, the HTTP Header Transfer Encoding is set to chunked and the response size is not determined. As a result, the data is available in stream as the database provides records that matches the API. With this improvement, pagination in the API is optional and all data can be fetched with a single query.

      • Synchronizing with Data Imports
      • Understanding data changes
  • Integrating with REST API

    External systems integration is one of the key features of BigFix Inventory. Business logic is enabled for integration and interfaces are provided for common integration points.

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Synchronizing with Data Imports

The below available APIs provide status information of the data import:
  1. https://hostname:port/api/import_status.json?token=token
  2. https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/10.0/inventory/Inventory/integration/r_get_import_status_bfi.html
Consider synchronizing API bulk calls with data import by:
  • checking if there is no import in progress (mode).
  • checking if the time of last successful data import (last_success_time) is later than in previous synchronization.
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