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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.
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.

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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.
- 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.
  - Configuring Oracle DB patching for your deployment
    The BigFix Console offers a simple interface for configuring and deploying Oracle DB patches across your environment. To configure the download plugin for Oracle DB, refer to Compliance/Patch_Middleware/c_using_mw_plugin.html.
  - Check servers for Oracle DB patch readiness by using the precheck tasks
    For each Oracle DB patch Fixlet a corresponding precheck tasks are available. The precheck tasks verify that your Oracle DB servers are capable of being patched to the specified Oracle patch level.
  - Patch Oracle databases
    Oracle Database Patch Fixlets are specific to OS, Oracle version, and specific patch level such as OracleDB 19c on Linux - 2023-10 Patch. (There are also Patch Fixlet variants specific to ASM and RAC). When a Patch Fixlet is deployed to a database server, it attempts to patch all the targeted databases on that server; for example, OracleDB 19c on Linux - 2023-10 Patch will patch all 19c Linux databases listed in the server's oratab file to 2023-10. There are patch Fixlets specific to OJDK and independent Fixlets. For example, SDB - OracleDB 19c on Linux - PSU 2024-07 Patch, SDB - OracleDB 19c on Linux - OJVM 2024-07 Patch, and SDB - OracleDB 19c on Linux - OJDK 2024-07 Patch.
  - Rolling back an Oracle DB patch
    You can roll back most Oracle DB patches with tasks that HCL provides.
  - Troubleshooting
    Troubleshooting in Oracle DB involves diagnosing and resolving issues that might arise while you work with the database servers.
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.

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.

Currently, BigFix supports Oracle Database 12c, 18c, and 19c in RAC, ASM, and SDB environments.

Note: Oracle has announced 12c and 18c reached the End of Life (EOL).

Patching an Oracle Database with BigFix involves three basic steps:

Deploying an "Patch List" task as a Policy Action: This action captures information about all databases entry in the oratab file (or Oracle services on Windows) along with their respective patch levels.

Deploying a "Precheck" task: This step includes updating the Oracle opatch utility to the version required by the patch, and to verify the prerequisites (disk space, patch conflicts, etc) for installing the patch.

Deploying a "Patch" Fixlet: This step is to deploy a "Patch" Fixlet that installs both the binary and database patches.

Deploying a "Rollback" task: This step is performed to reverse a previously applied oracle patch or restore the system to its earlier state by uninstalling or undoing the update.

Note: On non-Windows systems, the Update Fixlet can only capture information about databases entry that are in the oratab file. If a database entry is not in the oratab file, the patch Fixlet will not include it in the patching process.

Note: The Precheck and Patch Fixlets are specific to OS, Oracle version, and specific patch level such as "OracleDB 19c on Linux - 2023-10 Patch". (There are also Fixlet variants specific to ASM and RAC). When a Precheck or Patch Fixlet is deployed to a database server, it performs prechecks or patches on all the targeted databases on that server. For example, "OracleDB 19c on Linux - 2023-10 Patch" will patch all 19c databases on the Linux servers to 2023-10, that are listed in the oratab file.

Note: The Precheck task is designed to be run multiple times as needed prior to patching. Running the Precheck Fixlet allows you to verify that all the prerequisites are met before deploying the corresponding Patch Fixlet.