BigFix Scanner overview
Introduction to BigFix Scanner
BigFix Scanner is a tool expanding the capabilities of BigFix Agent in the BigFix ecosystem.
It originates from BigFix Inventory, an industry-proven software and hardware scanning solution, and now is made available as a BigFix shared component, and its use will be expanded over time.
The core capabilities are
- Caching information about the files on the file system for the purpose of querying to capture information about the device
- Evaluating software Catalog signatures leveraging the above cache and inspecting the device against other elements to confirm the existence of a given software component
- Capture device information for the capacity/processor-based metrics.
- Capture hardware information