Welcome
Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
Fixlets and Tasks
Commenting on Fixlets and Tasks
You can attach a comment to a Fixlet or Task that other operators can read.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
BigFix 10 Platform Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Platform documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use BigFix.
Detailed system requirements
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Platform guides in PDF format
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Platform user guides in PDF format:
Common Criteria Certification
BigFix 10.0.1.41 complies with the requirements of the standard ISO/IEC 15408 (Common Criteria) v. 3.1 for the assurance level: EAL2
Getting Started
Use this section to become familiar with BigFix infrastructure and key concepts necessary to understand how it works.
HTTPS across BigFix applications
This topic describes how the SSL/HTTPS communication works in BigFix applications and links the tasks on how to configure it.
Installation Guide
Learn the system requirements, licensing and installation instructions, and how to configure and maintain BigFix.
Configuration Guide
Learn how to configure BigFix according to your needs.
Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
- Accessing the console
  The console is the visible face of BigFix, used by the operator to monitor and repair networked computers running the BigFix client.
- Fixlets and Tasks
  - Introducing Fixlets and Tasks
    Fixlets and Tasks are central to BigFix.
  - Differences between Fixlets and tasks
    If you look at the details in the Fixlet and task definition on the BigFix console, you see the same entries. What makes the difference between the two are the scope and the default behavior.
  - Viewing Fixlets and Tasks
    How to display a Fixlet or a Task.
  - Monitoring Fixlets and Tasks
    When a Fixlet or Task becomes relevant somewhere in your network, BigFix adds it to the list available under the Fixlets and Tasks icon in the Domain Panel navigation tree.
  - Commenting on Fixlets and Tasks
    You can attach a comment to a Fixlet or Task that other operators can read.
  - Creating or Customizing Fixlets and Tasks
    How to create your own custom Fixlet or Task message from scratch.
  - Hiding Fixlets and Tasks
    You can hide a Fixlet or Task.
  - Viewing Relevance Expressions
    When a Fixlet message becomes relevant to some computer in your network, you might want to know exactly what triggered it, and what action is suggested.
  - Introducing Relevance
    To quickly and non-invasively inspect various aspects of a computer, the Relevance Language was created.
- Actions
  Actions are scripts that run on selected targets. They are used to fix policy violation and security exposures and to run configuration steps. Fixlet, tasks, and baselines depend on actions to run their remediation mission.
- Sites
- Domains
- Roles
- Client Computers
- Computer Groups
- Analyses
- Baselines
- Relays and Servers
- Activating the license counting process
  How to activate the license counting process.
- Displays and Reports
- Menus
- The Dialogs
- Disabling local operators on BigFix Console
  Starting from BigFix Version 10.0.8, you can decide to disable the local operators from logging into the BigFix Console, to use LDAP operators instead.
Asset Discovery User's Guide
Learn how BigFix Asset Discovery works.
Web Reports Guide
Learn how the Web Reports feature extends the power of BigFix.
WebUI User's Guide
Read this guide for an introduction to the WebUI tools, concepts, and terminology.
WebUI Administration Guide
Read this guide for information about installing and administering the WebUI.
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the Modern Client Management for BigFix software and products.

Commenting on Fixlets and Tasks

You can attach a comment to a Fixlet or Task that other operators can read.

Perform these steps:

From the Domain Panel, select Fixlets and Tasks from the navigation tree.
Select a Fixlet or Task from the List Panel on the right by clicking it.
From the document panel below, select the Details tab and scroll to the bottom.
Type your comment into the text box and click the Add Comment Button.

Your comment is name- and time-stamped for other operators to view it. In addition to Fixlets and Tasks, you can attach comments to Actions, Computers, and Analyses.