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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.
Security Configuration Management for WebUI User Guide
Security Configuration Management (SCM) App in WebUI continuously assess and manages the device for security misconfiguration and deviation, which enables operator to deploy remediation action to ensure the device meets compliance standards.
SCM App in WebUI: Overview
The SCM App landing page lists all the custom and external checklists that are used to manage devices.
Custom check
A custom checklist includes many checks which enables the security teams to preserve the compliance standards of an organisation. Similarly, checks within a checklist perform various type of actions and ensures the pre-defined parameters of the checks are met.

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.
- Configuration Management for Console User Guide
  Configuration management (SCM) is used to manage security configuration of devices using checklists which includes creating custom checklists, customize individual checks, synchronizing, deploying checklists to devices.
- Security Configuration Management for WebUI User Guide
  Security Configuration Management (SCM) App in WebUI continuously assess and manages the device for security misconfiguration and deviation, which enables operator to deploy remediation action to ensure the device meets compliance standards.
  - Welcome to the SCM App in WebUI
    Security Configuration Management (SCM) is a collection of checks and checklists that organizations can use to configure devices and ensure that the devices meet compliance standards.
  - What's new in SCM App in WebUI
    This topic provides information about the new features and updates in SCM App in WebUI.
  - System requirements
    SCM App in WebUI requires certain system requirements to work in your environment, this topic provides the necessary information to use SCM App.
  - Supported benchmarks
  - SCM App in WebUI: Overview
    The SCM App landing page lists all the custom and external checklists that are used to manage devices.
    - Custom checklist
      A custom checklist is a modified version or a copy of an external checklist. These checklists are created by using one or more external checklists. With custom checklists, Master Operators (MO) can exclude certain checks from an external checklist and deploy those checklists to any device.
    - Custom check
      A custom checklist includes many checks which enables the security teams to preserve the compliance standards of an organisation. Similarly, checks within a checklist perform various type of actions and ensures the pre-defined parameters of the checks are met.
      - Creating a custom check using relevance
        This task helps you in creating a custom check using relevance.
      - Creating a custom check using Unix content
        This task helps you in creating a custom check using Unix content.
      - Editing a custom check
        Understand how to edit a custom copy of a check or the checks which are created and added to the custom checklist.
      - Deleting a custom check or checks
        Understand how to delete a custom copy of a check or the checks which are created and added to the custom checklist. You can delete multiple custom checks or an individual custom check from the custom checklist details page.
    - External checklist
      SCM App in WebUI uses various benchmark checklists to ensure that the device meet the compliance standards. You can use these external checklists to manage devices or create custom checklist as per the requirement. For more information about external checklist, see Supported Benchmarks.
    - Exporting report
      Use export feature to save report for a particular custom or external checklist.
    - Inline reports
      Inline reports provide the status of selected custom or external checklist in the form of chart and graphs which assess the available checks in the selected checklist.
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 and QRadar User Guide
QRadar® provides security intelligence for protecting assets and information from advanced threats. BigFix provides a dashboard that is integrated with QRadar®. This dashboard is called the Manage Vulnerable Computers dashboard and is located within the Endpoint Protection domain in BigFix. From this dashboard, you can view enriched vulnerability and risk data, from which you can quickly identify the computers that are most at risk. You can remediate the vulnerabilities that are detected by QRadar® and you can also quarantine or un-quarantine computers.
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.
Linux and Windows applications - middleware
Traditional BigFix Patch content focuses on a limited set of vendors with a specialty in operating system and security patching. The Updates for Linux Applications – middleware and Updates for Windows Applications – middleware content site provides coverage for upgrades to a growing list of third-party applications. This expansion helps you fill gaps in proactive patching processes.
BigFix Remediate
BigFix MCM
Middleware Application Patching (Windows & Linux)

Custom check

A custom checklist includes many checks which enables the security teams to preserve the compliance standards of an organisation. Similarly, checks within a checklist perform various type of actions and ensures the pre-defined parameters of the checks are met.

Based on the roles and permissions in BigFix console Master operator (MO) and Non-master operator (NMO) can perform various activities.

With SCM App in WebUI you can create, edit, or delete one or more checks. You must meet the following prerequisites to create, edit, or delete a check:

Ensure that you have a custom checklist that is created through Create custom checklist wizard in the SCM App.
Ensure that the custom checks are up to date and that bug fixes are installed with the Synchronize Custom Checks wizard in the WebUI.
Ensure that you have Owner and Write permission for the checklist to create, edit, and delete a check.

The following table lists the activities that a MO and NMO can perform under specific condition:

Activity	Master operator (MO)	Non-master operator (NMO)
Create a custom check	Yes	Yes⁽¹⁾
Delete or Edit a custom check	Yes	Yes⁽¹⁾
View a custom check	Yes	Yes⁽²⁾

Note:

Access to custom content must be "Yes" in BigFix console roles and permission. When roles and persmission is set to "No", you cannot create, edit or delete a check even if you owner or write permission for the checklist.
You must have read permission to view a custom check.