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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 Databse 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.
Rolling back an Oracle DB patch
You can roll back most Oracle DB patches with Fixlets that HCL provides. However, rollbacks are not officially supported.

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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.
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Add-on User Guide
BigFix Compliance PCI Add-on is a new chargeable component that provides security configuration checklists that are based the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). These compliance checks are designed to help ensure continuous compliance at every endpoint in your organization.
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 put patch files into a folder structure or just manually cache the files.
- 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 Databse 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
    You can configure Oracle DB patching for your deployment from BigFix console.
  - Preparing Oracle DB patch downloads
    Complete these steps to prepare for downloading Oracle DB patches.
  - Check servers for Oracle DB patch readiness by using the precheck Fixlets
    For each Oracle DB patch Fixlet a corresponding precheck Fixlet is available. The precheck Fixlets check that your Oracle DB servers are ready to accept the 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 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 Fixlets that HCL provides. However, rollbacks are not officially supported.
  - Troubleshooting
    Troubleshooting in Oracle DB involves diagnosing and resolving issues that might arise while you work with the database server, applications, or related components.
BigFix Remediate
BigFix MCM
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the BigFix® Compliance software and products.

Rolling back an Oracle DB patch

You can roll back most Oracle DB patches with Fixlets that HCL provides. However, rollbacks are not officially supported.

Before performing prechecks on PSU and OJVM integrated or independent patch Fixlets, make sure that the patch list Fixlet is deployed for each endpoint.

Patch rollback Fixlets remove the Fixlets that the corresponding patch Fixlet applied. For example, if an Oracle DB server is initially at the 2023-01 patch level, and the patch Fixlet for 2023-07 is applied, then the rollback Fixlet for 2023-07 removes the 2023-07 patches. After the Fixlet removes the 2023-07 patches, the DB server returns to the 2023-01 patch level.

Important: Patch rollback Fixlets do not roll back the OPatch version upgrades that a precheck patch Fixlet installed.

Important: If a rollback is required, it should be performed in the reverse order of patching:

OJDK
OJVM
PSU

If a rollback is required for the PSU, only the PSU should be rolled back. Similarly, if a rollback is required for the OJVM or OJDK, only that specific patch should be rolled back.

The corresponding precheck and patch Fixlets become applicable again after a a rollback Fixlet deployment.

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