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Middleware Application Patching
Middleware Application Patching is an important process for organizations to ensure their systems are secure and up to date. By applying the appropriate patches and security updates, organizations can minimize the risk of malicious attacks and potential data loss. BigFix users can enjoy unified patch management by using a single platform for deploying database and middleware patches.
Overview
BigFix provides a comprehensive view of patching activities, helping administrators manage middleware updates efficiently. Middleware Application Patching provides a view of Fixlet fields, offering key insights into available patches and security updates.
Fixlet fields
Fixlet® fields provide essential information about Fixlet, helping them assess the importance, relevance, and impact of deploying a particular Fixlet to their systems.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
BigFix 11 Compliance Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Compliance documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use BigFix Compliance.
BigFix Platform
BigFix Query
Compliance Overview
BigFix Compliance helps support endpoint security throughout your organization.
Compliance Guides in PDF format
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Compliance user guides in PDF format:
Compliance Setup Guide and User Guide
BigFix Compliance Analytics is a web-based application designed to help you manage security, vulnerability, and risk assessment. The application archives security and vulnerability compliance check results to identify configuration issues and report levels of compliance toward security configuration goals.
Configuration Management (SCM)
BigFix Compliance Configuration Management (SCM) includes configurable content that is checks and checklists, which assess and manages the devices to ensure compliance standards are met.
Client Manager for Endpoint Protection
BigFix Compliance CMEP is an effective tool to monitor the deployment and health status of various Endpoint Protection products and provide quick remediation actions to recover needed endpoint protection.
BigFix Client Compliance
This guide describes the BigFix Client Compliance and its solutions (BigFix Client Compliance Configuration and BigFix Client Compliance Windows (IPSec Framework)) which helps in maintaining the compliance status of the computers.
BigFix and Carbon Black integration
The HCL BigFix and Carbon Black integration allows administrators to deploy a full endpoint security solution to detect, contain, investigate, and remediate security threats and attacks on endpoints across the enterprise. The following sections provide useful information and links to the resources available for the solution.
Middleware Application Patching
Middleware Application Patching is an important process for organizations to ensure their systems are secure and up to date. By applying the appropriate patches and security updates, organizations can minimize the risk of malicious attacks and potential data loss. BigFix users can enjoy unified patch management by using a single platform for deploying database and middleware patches.
- Overview
  BigFix provides a comprehensive view of patching activities, helping administrators manage middleware updates efficiently. Middleware Application Patching provides a view of Fixlet fields, offering key insights into available patches and security updates.
  - Fixlet fields
    Fixlet® fields provide essential information about Fixlet, helping them assess the importance, relevance, and impact of deploying a particular Fixlet to their systems.
- Updates for Linux applications - middleware
  With Updates for Linux applications - middleware content site, customer can deploy updates to a vast number of third-party middleware applications.
- Updates for Windows applications - middleware
  With Updates for Windows applications - middleware content site, customer can deploy updates to a vast number of third-party middleware applications.
- Multiple Instance Patching Support in Middleware
  Managing multiple instances of the Middleware applications requires a structured approach to ensure seamless patching.
- Manual caching
  Manual caching refers to manually storing and managing data in a cache. Users can organize patch files in a folder structure or cache them manually.
- Using Middleware download plug-in
  Middleware plug-in is an executable program that downloads a specific patch from the website of the patch vendors. To make caching easier, Fixlets have a built-in protocol that uses the download plug-in.
- Oracle Weblogic
  Oracle Weblogic Server is a unified and extensible platform for developing, deploying, and running enterprise applications. Oracle Weblogic Server is a software application that runs on a middleware tier, between back-end databases and related applications and browser-based thin clients.
- Oracle Database
  An Oracle Database is a collection of data treated as a unit. A database stores and retrieves related information. Oracle DB is widely used and known for its reliability, scalability, and extensive features.
RBI Compliance User Guide
Discover how the RBI Compliance Report provides a centralized and automated reporting solution for monitoring device and Fixlet compliance.
BigFix Remediate
BigFix MCM
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the BigFix® Compliance software and products.

Fixlet fields

Fixlet® fields provide essential information about Fixlet®, helping them assess the importance, relevance, and impact of deploying a particular Fixlet® to their systems.

Fixlet® contains fields of metadata that provide specific details. Some Fixlet® fields are common across all domains, that is, categories of BigFix sites.

The following table lists the Fixlet® fields and their descriptions.

Table 1. Fixlet fields and descriptions
Fixlet fields	Description	BigFix domain
ID	A numerical ID assigned to the Fixlet by the author.	All
Name	The name assigned to the Fixlet by the author.	All
Applicable Computer Count	The number of BigFix clients in the network currently affected by the Fixlet.	All
Category	The type of Fixlet, such as a Security Patch or Update.	All
Download Size	The size of the remedial file or patch that the action downloads.	All
Source	The name of the source vendor that provides the Fixlet information.	All
Source ID	A numerical ID assigned to the Fixlet to relate it back to its source.	All
Source Release Date	The date when an upstream vendor releases the patch.	All
Source Severity	A measure of how critical a Fixlet is, assigned by the Fixlet author. Typical values are Critical, Important, Moderate, or Low.	All
Site	The name of the site that is generating the relevant Fixlet.	All
Unlocked Computer Count	The number of unlocked computers that are affected by the Fixlet.	All
Open Action Count	The number of distinct actions that are open for the given Fixlet.	All
X-Fixlet-content-stream	The category that the patch belongs to.	Middleware Application Patching
Modification Time	The time when a given Fixlet was last modified.	All
X-Fixlet-first-propagation	The Fixlet release date.	All