Welcome
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.
BigFix Compliance Analytics Setup Guide
Introduction
BigFix Compliance Analytics is a component of BigFix Compliance, that aggregates and reports on the compliance statuses of all endpoints against deployed policies that are continually collected, aggregated, and reported using a powerful Compliance Analytics engine, database and user interface.
Port requirements
When planning the infrastructure, ensure that port numbers used by BigFix Compliance, BigFix, and the database are free to enable communication between those components.

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:
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.
- BigFix Compliance Analytics Setup Guide
  - Introduction
    BigFix Compliance Analytics is a component of BigFix Compliance, that aggregates and reports on the compliance statuses of all endpoints against deployed policies that are continually collected, aggregated, and reported using a powerful Compliance Analytics engine, database and user interface.
    - System Requirements
      Set up your deployment according to the system requirements to successfully deploy BigFix Compliance Analytics.
    - Setup Considerations
      When configuring your system, ensure that your ideal deployment size aligns with your hardware specifications. Utilize the provided recommendations as general guidance to effectively set up BigFix Compliance Analytics for optimal performance.
    - Port requirements
      When planning the infrastructure, ensure that port numbers used by BigFix Compliance, BigFix, and the database are free to enable communication between those components.
  - Installing BigFix Compliance Analytics
    Follow this comprehensive guide to successfully deploy and configure the BigFix Compliance for optimal performance and data insights.
  - Uninstalling
    To remove BigFix Compliance from your infrastructure, stop the application-specific actions and analyses that are running on the computers and uninstall the scanner. Remove the VM Manager tool. Subsequently, uninstall the BigFix Compliance server, and optionally eliminate the associated database as well.
  - Configuring report definitions using REST API
    Administrators can use REST API to create, update, and delete saved report view definitions across BFC instances.
  - Disaster recovery for BigFix Compliance Analytics
    Use the standard cold standby method of creating a backup and restoring the system in your disaster recovery plan for BigFix Compliance Analytics.
- BigFix Compliance Analytics User Guide
  BigFix Compliance Analytics is a component of BigFix Compliance, that includes technical controls and tools that are based on industry practices and standards for endpoint and server security configuration.
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.
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.

Port requirements

When planning the infrastructure, ensure that port numbers used by BigFix Compliance, BigFix, and the database are free to enable communication between those components.

The following is the list of default ports used by the BigFix Compliance infrastructure. You can change them during the installation of each component:

Table 1. Default ports used by the BigFix Compliance infrastructure
Type	Port number	Description
BigFix Compliance	9081	The web browser connects to the server (HTTPS) to display the user interface.
BigFix Compliance	9081	The BigFix server uses this port to connect to the BigFix Compliance server.
DB2®	50000	The server connects to DB2®.
SQL Server	1433	The server connects to SQL Server.
BigFix	52311	BigFix clients and console connect to the server.
BigFix	52311	The BigFix Compliance server uses this port to connect to the BigFix server.

For more information about port numbers and interactions between components of the BigFix Compliance infrastructure, refer to Flow of data.

Make sure that relevant web addresses are accessible from the computer where the BigFix server is installed. For more information, refer to Firewall exceptions.