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.
VMware
BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides audit Fixlets for new patch bundle updates that VMware releases.
Setup for management extender
This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the management extender, including the necessary prerequisite steps.

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
  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
  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
  BigFix® for 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
  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
  - VMware
    BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides audit Fixlets for new patch bundle updates that VMware releases.
    - Setup for management extender
      This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the management extender, including the necessary prerequisite steps.
      - Components
        VMware Plugin components are individual building blocks that collectively form the plugin's functionality.
      - Architecture
        The VMware architecture helps in understanding and managing virtualized environment.
      - Managing the workload balance
        Managing the workload balance describes how Patch for VMware ESXi is designed to work in big environments to optimize the workload balance.
      - Configuring the Management Extender
        Before you can begin working with the different Virtualization features, you must configure a relay server or a root server to communicate with a specific VMware vCenter or ESX host.
      - Working with multiple computer representations
    - Setup for VMware plugin
      This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the VMware plugin, including the necessary prerequisite steps.
    - Migration from management extender to VMware plugin
      This section provides instructions on migrating from the Management Extender to the new VMware plugin for existing setups.
    - Offline Patching Workflow
    - Virtual Machine Guest Overview
    - Specifying virtual device computers
  - Extended cloud capability
    BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager enables the management of cloud endpoints on GCP, AWS, and Azure.
  - Troubleshooting
  - Frequently asked questions
  - 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:

Setup for management extender

This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the management extender, including the necessary prerequisite steps.

Note: The BigFix team is actively working to expand the scope of utilizing the new Plugin across a broader range of BigFix platform versions. Once this expansion is achieved, the existing VMWare VCenter Management Extender will be deprecated. For the new setup details regarding the new VMware Plugin, please refer to the Setup for VMware plugin.

Note: BigFix will no longer provides content and support for the management externder after June 30, 2025. The deprecated site is no longer available on the License Overview dashboard.

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