Network Installation Management (NIM) integration

BigFix provides an alternative solution for updating and managing multiple AIX system through Network Installation Management (NIM). BigFix supports the NIM patch management features in this release.

You can use NIM from the BigFix console to remotely manage AIX installations and updates in multiple AIX systems in your environment.

For more information about NIM, see the IBM AIX Information Center. The AIX information centers are version-specific. To see the list of available AIX information centers, see the IBM AIX resources at: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/resources.html

The Patches for AIX site provides dashboards that you can use to install, configure, and manage your NIM environment. For more information about these dashboard, see NIM dashboards overview.