Welcome
Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide
BigFix® for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches in a virtual environment.
Extended cloud capability
BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager enables the management of cloud endpoints on GCP, AWS, and Azure.
Azure cloud capability
BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager enables Fixlets and Tasks for new patch bundle updates that Azure releases.
Setup for Azure plugin
This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the Azure cloud endpoints by starting, stopping, and restarting discovered resources.
Components
Azure Plugin components are individual building blocks that collectively form the plugin's functionality.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
BigFix 10 Patch Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Patch documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the BigFix Patch.
BigFix Platform
Patch Overview
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
- Patch for Windows User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Windows™ provides Fixlets for Microsoft™ security and non-security patches. Dashboards, wizards, and reports aid you in managing updates for various endpoint devices.
- Patch for AIX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for AIX® provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility, and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all AIX endpoints.
- Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility, and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux endpoints.
- Patch for CentOS Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patch for CentOS Linux™ provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all CentOs endpoints.
- Patch for Amazon Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patch for Amazon Linux™ provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Amazon Linux endpoints.
- Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for SUSE Linux™Enterprise provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility, and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all SUSE Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Ubuntu User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Ubuntu provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Ubuntu endpoints.
- Patch for Oracle Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patches for Oracle Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Oracle Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Solaris User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Solaris provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Solaris endpoints.
- Patch for HP-UX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for HP-UX provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all HP-UX endpoints.
- Patch for Mac OS X User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix® Patch for Mac OS X provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility, and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Mac OS X endpoints.
- Patch for Debian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Debian provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Debian endpoints.
- Patch for VMware ESXi User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for VMware ESXi provides you unified, near real-time visibility to manage patches to all VMware ESXi endpoints from a single console.
- Patch for Raspbian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Raspbian provides Fixlets that you use to manage the latest updates and service packs that Raspberry Pi releases. These Fixlets are available through the Patches for Raspbian sites.
- Patch for Rocky Linux User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Rocky Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility, and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Rocky Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide
  BigFix® for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches in a virtual environment.
  - Overview
    BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides audit Fixlets for new patch bundle updates that VMware releases.
  - VMware
    BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides audit Fixlets for new patch bundle updates that VMware releases.
  - Extended cloud capability
    BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager enables the management of cloud endpoints on GCP, AWS, and Azure.
    - AWS cloud capability
      BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager enables Fixlets and Tasks for new patch bundle updates that AWS releases.
    - GCP cloud capability
      BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager enables Fixlets and Tasks for new patch bundle updates that GCP releases.
    - Azure cloud capability
      BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager enables Fixlets and Tasks for new patch bundle updates that Azure releases.
      - Setup for Azure plugin
        This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the Azure cloud endpoints by starting, stopping, and restarting discovered resources.
        Components
        Azure Plugin components are individual building blocks that collectively form the plugin's functionality.
    - Architecture
      The Cloud plugin architecture helps in understanding and managing a virtualized environment.
    - Working with the cloud plugin dashboard
      Dashboard listing the information about the Cloud Plugins Dashboard.
  - Troubleshooting
  - Frequently asked questions
    Learn from these questions and answers that are designed to help you better understand VMware.
  - List of actionscript commands
- Supersedence for Non-Windows
  This topic describes how supersedence works in Patch.
Detailed system requirements
The tables in this section provide detailed information about the system requirements for BigFix 10.
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the BigFix® Patch software and products.
Patch guides in PDF format
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Patch user guides in PDF format:

Components

Azure Plugin components are individual building blocks that collectively form the plugin's functionality.

Virtual Endpoint Manager has the following components:

Server: The BigFix server is a database that communicates with the relays and the BigFix console to manage the devices in your deployment.

Plugin portal: For information on plugin portal, refer to The Plugin Portal.

Azure plugin: Azure plugin allow devices to be managed without an agent on the device. Azure Asset Discovery Plugin is able to discover and report data about Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines.