Supported operating systems

The tables in this section provide detailed information about the system requirements for BigFix Scanner.

11.0.40.0 BigFix Scanner Service supported operating systems
In BigFix Scanner 11.0.40.0, it is possible to deploy BigFix Scanner Service installed as part of the solution. BigFix Scanner Service provides additional scanning fetaures and is available for the following operating systems:
  • Windows 10 or higher
  • Windows Server 2016 or higher
Using BigFix Scanner on older BigFix Platform versions
New capabilities or solutions provided by the BigFix Scanner might depend on functions of the BigFix Platform. For information about minimal supported BigFix Platform versions for given product use cases, refer to the BigFix Platform and Inventory product documentations.

Agent Version Requirements

To utilize certain features related to the BigFix Scanner, you must use BigFix Platform Agent version 11.0.2 or higher.

  • Scanner API Usage: Accessing the BigFix Scanner APIs in the Platform Content using the sqlite inspector requires Agent 11.0.2 or higher. Older versions will encounter an SQL execution error when attempting to access unsupported APIs.
  • Analysis Property Reporting: Properties that query the BigFix Scanner APIs also require Agent 11.0.2 or higher to be reported correctly.

Limitations on Older Agent Versions

If you are running an Agent version older than 11.0.2, the following analysis properties will not be reported:

  • Scanner Information: Cache Folder, FS Cache Status, FS Cache Timestamp
  • Scanner Trace Settings: All properties
  • File Scan Statistics - Scanner Service: All properties

Lack of reporting of those values does not impact the functionality of the BigFix Scanner itself.

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Operating Systems: AIX Linux Solaris Windows
Hypervisors: AIX Linux Solaris Windows

Operating Systems

Table 1. AIX
Operating System Hardware Bitness Operating System minimum Notes Product minimum End of support Operating System
AIX 6.1 POWER System - Big Endian 64-Exploit TL4 (1) AIX 6.1
AIX 7.1 POWER System - Big Endian 64-Exploit Varies (1) AIX 7.1
AIX 7.2 POWER System - Big Endian 64-Exploit Base (1) AIX 7.2
AIX 7.3 POWER System - Big Endian 64-Exploit Base (1) AIX 7.3
Table 2. Linux
Operating System Hardware Bitness Operating System minimum Notes Product minimum End of support
Amazon Linux 2 ARM64 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base Jun 30, 2026
Amazon Linux 2023 ARM64 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base
TinyCore Linux x86 32-bit Yes Yes
OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 x86-64 64-Exploit Yes Yes BigFix Scanner Documentation
OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 x86-64 64-Exploit Yes Yes BigFix Scanner Documentation
OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 x86-64 64-Exploit Yes Yes BigFix Scanner Documentation
CentOS Stream 9 x86-64 64-Exploit Base No
CentOS Stream 10 x86-64 64-Exploit Base No BigFix Scanner Documentation
CentOS 7 x86-64 64-Exploit Base No
CentOS 8 x86-64 64-Tolerate Base (2) (2)
Debian 9.8 x86-64 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base No
Debian 10 x86 and x64 64-Tolerate Base No
Debian 11 x86 and x64 64-Tolerate Base No
Debian 11 x86 and x64 64-Tolerate Base No
Debian 12 x86-64 64-Exploit,64-Tolerate Base No
Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 x86-64 64-Exploit Base No
Oracle Enterprise Linux 8 x86-64 64-Exploit Base (2) (2)
Oracle Enterprise Linux 9 x86-64 64-Exploit Base (2) (2)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6 IBM z Systems 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base (2) (2) (4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 7 IBM z Systems 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base (2) (2)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 7 POWER System - Little Endian 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate 7.1 Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 7 x86-64 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base (2) (2)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 8.1 POWER System - Little Endian 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base (3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 IBM z Systems 64-Tolerate Base (3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 x86-64 64-Tolerate Base (1) (2) (1) (2) (3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 x86-64 64-Tolerate Base (2) (2)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9

(RHEL 9.1 or higher)

 IBM Power 64-Tolerate Base
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9

(RHEL 9.1 or higher)

 zSystems 64-Tolerate Base Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 x86-64 64-Tolerate BigFix Scanner Documentation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 IBM Power 64-Tolerate BigFix Scanner Documentation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 zSystems 64-Tolerate BigFix Scanner Documentation
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 IBM z Systems 64-Exploit Base No
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 IBM z Systems 64-Exploit Base No
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 IBM z Systems 64-Tolerate Base No
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 POWER System - Little Endian 64-Exploit,64-Tolerate Base No
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 POWER System - Big Endian 64-Exploit Base No 11.0.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 POWER System - Little Endian 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate SP3, SP4, SP5 No
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 POWER System - Little Endian 64-Tolerate Base, SP1 No
SUSE Linux EnterpriseServer (SLES) 11 x86-64 64-Exploit Base No
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 x86-64 64-Exploit Base No
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 x86-64 64-Exploit Base No
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 zSystems 64-Exploit Base No
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS POWER System - Little Endian 64-Exploit Base No
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS x86-64 64-Exploit Base No
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS KVM 64-Exploit Base No
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS POWER System - Little Endian 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base No
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS x86-64 64-Tolerate Base No
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS IBM z Systems 64-Tolerate Base No
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS x86-64 64-Tolerate Base No
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS IBM z Systems 64-Tolerate Base No
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS x86-64 64-Tolerate Base No
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS IBM z Systems 64-Tolerate Base No
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x86-64 64-Exploit Base No
Table 3. Solaris
Operating System Hardware Bitness Operating System minimum Product minimum Notes End of support
Solaris 10 SPARC 32 Base
Solaris 10 x86-64 64-Tolerate Base
Solaris 11 SPARC 32 Base
Solaris 11 x86-32 32 Base
Solaris 11 x86-64 64-Tolerate Base
Table 4. Windows
Operating System Hardware Bitness Operating System minimum Product minimum Notes End of support
Windows 11 Pro x86-64 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows 11 Pro for Workstation x86-64 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows 11 Enterprise x86-64 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows 11 x86-64 64-Tolerate Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows 10 Enterprise x86-32 32 Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows 10 Enterprise x86-64, 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows 10 Pro x86-32 32 Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows 10 Pro x86-64 64-Exploit,

64-Tolerate

 Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows 8 Enterprise x86-64 64-Tolerate Base
Windows 8 Professional x86-32 32 Base
Windows 8 Professional x86-64 64-Tolerate Base
Windows 8 Standard x86-32 32 Base
Windows 8 Standard x86-64 64-Tolerate Base
Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition x86-6464-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows Server 2019 Essentials Edition x86-6464-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition x86-64 64-Exploit, 64-Tolerate Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows Server 2012 R2

Datacenter Edition

 x86-64 64-Exploit,

64-Tolerate

 Base (1)
Windows Server 2012 R2

Essentials Edition

 x86-64 64-Exploit,

64-Tolerate

 Base (1)
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition x86-64 64-Exploit,

64-Tolerate

 Base (1)
Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition x86-64 64-Exploit,

64-Tolerate

 Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition x86-64

64-Exploit,

64-Tolerate

 Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition x86-64

64-Exploit,

64-Tolerate

 Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition x86-64 64-Exploit,

64-Tolerate

 Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation x86-64

64-Exploit,

64-Tolerate

 Base (2)
Windows Server 2022 Datacenter x86-64 64-Exploit,

64-Tolerate

 Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Evaluation x86-64 64-Exploit,

64-Tolerate

 Base (1) (2)
Windows Server 2025 x86-64 64-Exploit,

64-Tolerat

 Base BigFix Scanner Service Supported
Note: Windows filenames with unpaired surrogates are not representable—The filenames cannot be properly represented or processed, as unpaired surrogates are invalid in UTF-16 encoding. This results in an inability to correctly handle Windows filenames.

Hypervisors

Table 5. AIX
Hypervisor Supported Any supported version Operating System minimum Notes
BigFix Agent Disconnected Scanner
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor (LPAR, DPAR, Micro-Partition) - any supported version Yes Yes (2) AIX 6.1 POWER System - Big Endian

AIX 7.1 POWER System - Big Endian

AIX 7.2 POWER System - Big Endian

 (2)
IBM PowerVM VIOS - any version Yes Yes (1)

AIX 6.1 POWER System - Big Endian

AIX 7.1 POWER System - Big Endian

AIX 7.2 POWER System - Big Endian

 (1)
Live Application Mobility (LAM) for Workload Partition (WPAR) AIX 6.1 Yes Yes AIX 6.1 AIX 6.1 POWER System - Big Endian

AIX 7.1 POWER System - Big Endian

AIX 7.2 POWER System - Big Endian
Live Application Mobility (LAM) for Workload Partition (WPAR) AIX 7.1 Yes Yes AIX 7.1 AIX 6.1 POWER System - Big Endian

AIX 7.1 POWER System - Big Endian

AIX 7.2 POWER System - Big Endian
Table 6. Linux
Hypervisor Any supported version Operating System minimum Notes Product minimum End of support
AWS Nitro System Based on KVM for Graviton 2 onwards
Citrix Hypervisor 8.0 8.0 No
Citrix Hypervisor 8.1 8.1 No
Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 8.2 No
Citrix XenServer 7 7 (1) (1)
IBM PowerKVM any supported version any version No
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor (LPAR, DPAR, Micro-Partition) any supported version any version (5) (5)
IBM z/VM Hypervisor 6.4 6.4 No
KVM in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 11 No
KVM in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 12 No
KVM in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 12 No
KVM on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 16.04 LTS No
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 2008 R2 No
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 2012 No
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 2012 R2 No
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 2016 No
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 2019 No
Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022 2022 No
Nutanix Acropolis 5.10 5.10 (4) (4) (6)
Oracle VM Server for SPARC All Versions (2) (2)

Red Hat KVM as delivered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its RHEV equivalent 6.0

 6.0 No
Red Hat KVM as delivered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its RHEV equivalent 7.0 7.0 No
Red Hat Virtualization 4.0 4.0 No
Red Hat Virtualization 4.1 4.1 No
Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 4.2 No
Red Hat Virtualization 4.3 4.3 No
Red Hat Virtualization 4.4 4.4 No
VMware ESXi 7.0 7.0 No
Xen 4.4 4.4.(3) (3)
Xen 4.5 4.5 (3) (3)
Xen 4.6 4.6 (3) (3)
z/VM 6.1 6.1 No
z/VM 6.2 6.2 No
z/VM 6.3 6.3 No
Azure Stack HCI No
VMware vSphere 8 - vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) No
Table 7. Solaris
Hypervisor Supported version Supported guest operating system Notes Product minimum End of support
KVM in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 11

Solaris 11 SPARC

Solaris 11 x86-64

 No
Oracle VM Server for SPARC All Versions (2)

Solaris 11 SPARC

Solaris 11 x86-64

 (2)
Red Hat KVM as delivered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 6.0

Solaris 11 SPARC

Solaris 11 x86-64

 No
Red Hat KVM as delivered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its RHEV equivalent 6.0 6.0

Solaris 11 SPARC

Solaris 11 x86-64

 No

Red Hat KVM as delivered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its RHEV equivalent 7.0

 7.0

Solaris 11 SPARC

Solaris 11 x86-64

 No
Sun Solaris 10 Global/Local Zones (SPARC) 10 10

Solaris 11 SPARC

Solaris 11 x86-64

 No
Sun Solaris 10 Global/Local Zones (x86-64) 10 10

Solaris 11 SPARC

Solaris 11 x86-64

 No
Sun Solaris 11 Global/Local Zones (SPARC) 11 11 (1) Solaris 11 SPARC (1)
Sun Solaris 11 Global/Local Zones (x86-64) 11 11 (1) Solaris 11 x86-64 (1)
VMware ESXi 7.0 7.0

Solaris 11 x86-64

 (4)
VMware ESXi 7.1 7.0

Solaris 11 x86-64

 (4)
Xen 4.4 4.4

Solaris 11 SPARC

Solaris 11 x86-64

 (3)
Xen 4.5 4.5

Solaris 11 SPARC

Solaris 11 x86-64

 (3)
Xen 4.6 4.6

Solaris 11 SPARC

Solaris 11 x86-64

 (3)
VMware vSphere 8 - vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) No
Table 8. Windows
Hypervisor Supported version Supported guest operating system Notes Product minimum End of support
Citrix Hypervisor 8.0 8.0 No
Citrix Hypervisor 8.1 8.1 No
Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 8.2 No
Citrix XenServer 7 7 (1)
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 2016 No
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 2019 No
Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022 2022 No
Nutanix Acropolis 5.10 5.10 (1) (2)
Red Hat Virtualization 4.0 4.0 No
Red Hat Virtualization 4.1 4.1 No
Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 4.2 No
Red Hat Virtualization 4.3 4.3 No
VMware ESXi 7.0 7.0 No
Azure Stack HCI No
VMware vSphere 8 - vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) No