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WebUI User's Guide
Read this guide for an introduction to the WebUI tools, concepts, and terminology.
Extending BigFix management capabilities
BigFix 10 delivers a few significant new functions for enhancing the visibility and management of devices on your network regardless of whether the devices are physical or virtual.

WebUI User's Guide
Read this guide for an introduction to the WebUI tools, concepts, and terminology.
- Welcome
  Welcome to BigFix WebUI. The WebUI delivers a powerful set of functions for BigFix operators. It simplifies BigFix workflows, speeds access to data, and improves flexibility, visibility, and performance.
- Meet the WebUI
  Take a quick tour of the WebUI screens, controls, and workflow.
- Get Started with Devices
  Use the Device screens to view and manage all the devices in your environment as determined by your permission levels. You can find specific devices, access device documents, select devices for deployment, generate and export device reports and do much more.
- Get Started with Patch
  Use the Patch screens to list patches, find specific patches, and view detailed patch information including known issues, vulnerable devices, and deployments.
- Get Started with Patch Policy
  A patch policy is a set of criteria that defines a patch list; that is, a collection of Fixlets that meet the patching criteria of a specific set of endpoints.
- Get started with IVR
  Use the Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) application to view a list of all the vulnerabilities, remediate vulnerabilities and create customized IVR reports.
- Get Started with Software
  A BigFix software package is the collection of Fixlets used to install software on a device. The package includes the installation files, the Fixlets that install them, and information about the package itself.
- Get Started with Custom Content
  Use the Custom Content pages to view custom content, edit tasks, and view related information, including applicable devices and deployments.
- Get Started with BigFix Query
  Use the BigFix Query feature to retrieve data from endpoints through a dedicated query channel, where the memory available on each Relay minimizes the impact to normal BigFix processing.
- Take Action: The Deploy Sequence
  To deploy means to dispatch content such as applications, modules, updates, and patches to one or more endpoints. For example, by deploying a software, you install the software in the targeted endpoints. BigFix WebUI enables you to configure the content and the target devises to create a deployment and monitor the deployment status. The work flow including all the steps, processes, and activities that are required to create a deployment is collectively called as the Deploy Sequence.
- Get Started with Deployments
  Use the Deployment views to monitor and verify completion of BigFix deployments.
- Get Started with the Content App
  Use the Content App to work with Fixlets, tasks, and baselines on the BigFix sites. Search, filter, and deploy content using standard WebUI tools.
- Get Started with Extensions Management Application
  BigFix Extension Management application provides you the possibility to extend WebUI features beyond what is delivered in the products that you are currently entitled to. You can address specific use cases that are not currently fulfilled by the product by adding ad-hoc extensions to WebUI.
- Modern Client Management and BigFix Mobile
  This section guides you through BigFix Modern Client Management (MCM) and BigFix Mobile to understand the MCM concepts, terminologies, features, and functionality. You can find detailed instructions for managing the complete lifecycle of your MDM managed endpoints here.
- Extending BigFix management capabilities
  BigFix 10 delivers a few significant new functions for enhancing the visibility and management of devices on your network regardless of whether the devices are physical or virtual.
  - Managing cloud plugins
    BigFix 10 Platform includes a plugin for every cloud provider supported, namely Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, VMware and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Each of these cloud providers has its own uniqueness, capabilities, and ways to interface with an external program and they handle access to data and capabilities differently.
- Support
  For more information about this product, see the following resources:

Extending BigFix management capabilities

BigFix 10 delivers a few significant new functions for enhancing the visibility and management of devices on your network regardless of whether the devices are physical or virtual.

Challenges faced in managing modern IT infrastructures

Managing their infrastructures is growing more and more challenging and complex for IT organizations. With the advent of multiple types of servers, different operating systems, software, cloud computing and services, and technology that is changing almost every minute, it becomes difficult to track, control, and manage the IT environments.

Technologies such as cloud computing and mobility change the IT landscapes fast and it becomes difficult to stay current.
Catering to new compliance and regulatory requirements while still complying with the old ones has mandated the need for a cost-effective solution.
As IT organizations continue to increase operations around latest technologies, security becomes a major concern.
Sophisticated IT infrastructures that support high computing and data analysis need efficient and cost-effective data extraction and data storage techniques.

BigFix 10 features

To achieve transparency across your heterogeneous IT environments, you need a more automated, comprehensive, and robust solution like BigFix 10. This all-new version of BigFix provides you with an accurate view of the resources in your network, key analytics, and detailed insights that can enable your decision makers to make faster and informed decisions about IT management.