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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.
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.

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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:
SCM Checklists Guide
This SCM Checklists page provides information about the compliance checklists supported by BigFix Compliance, including frameworks, supported platforms, and checklist versions.
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 such as checks and checklists, which assess and manage 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.
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.
- Middleware scanner integration
  Managing multiple instances of Middleware applications requires a dedicated scanner mechanism to ensure seamless patching. This chapter explains how scanner and patching work, prerequisites, required tasks, scanner operation, configuration management, and removal.
- 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 download manager
  The Oracle download manager is a fixlet-based utility that downloads Oracle middleware and database binaries when the vendor requires Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
- 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.
  - 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 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.
Technical References
Find technical reference material for BigFix® Compliance components. The topics in this section cover release notes, tool specifications, and version details for Compliance components, including Security Configuration Automation Protocol (SCAP), Security Compliance Analytics (SCA), and related tools.
BigFix Remediate
BigFix MCM
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the BigFix® Compliance software and products.

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 Using Middleware download plug-in.

Procedure

Complete the following steps to configure Oracle DB patching for your deployment from the BigFix console license overview dashboard:

In the BigFix console, click the Updates for Linux Applications Middleware site or the Updates for Windows Applications Middleware site to open the required sites.
Click Fixlets and Tasks and choose the appropriate Update Oracle DB Patch List and update scripts Fixlet from your Oracle DB installation.

Note: If you are using Oracle ASM or Oracle RAC, select the ASM Fixlet version.

Note: If you are running a standalone Oracle DB, choose the Non-ASM or plain Fixlet version.

Note: If you want to use the independent Fixlet, make sure to use the PSU, OJVM, and OJDK.
Click a Update Oracle DB Patch List and update scripts Fixlet and select Take Action.
Set the input fields in the Execution tab of the Take Action window.

End Date

Leave the end date field empty or unspecified.

Reapply Action

Click While Relevant to enable this option to ensure the action is reapplied whenever it becomes relevant.

Reapply Interval

Set the reapply interval to 1 day to wait one day between reapplications.

Maximum Allowed Reapplications

Choose Unlimited to accept unlimited reapplications.

Action Name

Update the action's name to clearly indicate that it is a policy action.
By configuring the action on the Execution tab as described, you create a policy action that runs daily.
When you finish editing, click OK to deploy the action.
After the policy action runs on the database servers, Oracle DB patch actions can become relevant.

Note: The Fixlet detects only databases that are configured in /etc/oratab (or /var/opt/oracle/oratab on Solaris).