Application update 10.0.13.1July, 2023
- Added new publishers
- Discovery improvements
- Defect fixes
|
169 |
All customers |
|
Release
notes |
Application update 10.0.13June, 2023
- Installation Date and Path collection for Linux packages
- Security updates
- Fixlet improvements
- Defect fixes
- Discovery improvements
|
168 |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to 10.0.13 to allow the new capabilities work for
you. |
Release
notes |
Application update 10.0.12.2May, 2023
- Discovery improvements - added or updated more than 500 new
signatures, that includes software publishers, such as Oracle,
Microsoft, Google Inc., Red Hat, SAP, VMware, and Cyberark, etc.
- Defect fixes
|
164 |
All customers |
|
Release
notes |
Application update 10.0.12.1April, 2023
- Discovery improvements - added or updated more than 90 new
signatures, that includes software publishers, such as Microsoft,
Cisco, Google, McAfee, etc.
- Defect fixes
- Best practices for security improvements
Certification for BigFix Inventory 10.0.12 (LMT 9.2.30
equivalent) is complete. |
163 |
All customers |
|
Release
notes |
Application update 10.0.12.0March, 2023
- Improvements in software vendor reports view - added new Microsoft
reports
- Improvement in default columns under software vendor reports
- Improvements in All Contracts panel
- Support for new Microsoft Processor Core Metrics
- Improvement is Package installation path and date extensions
summary
- Defect fixes
- Security improvements
Certification for BigFix Inventory 10.0.12 (LMT 9.2.30
equivalent) is pending. |
160 |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to 10.0.12 to allow the new capabilities work for
you. Use Upgrade to the latest version of BigFix Inventory
fixlet from BigFix console to upgrade BigFix Inventory
server. |
Release
notes |
Application update 10.0.11.2 February, 2023
- Added or updated more than 530+ new signatures
- Enhanced Oracle Java (JRE & JDK) Signature's for accurate
discovery
- Enhancement is done for Windows & UNIX platform covering versions
9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 & 17
- Discovery is based on CIT signature
- Defect fixes
|
159 |
All customers |
|
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.11.1 January, 2023
- Capability to discover more than 47 new software versions
- Added new template signatures
- Defect fixes
Certification for BigFix Inventory 10.0.11 (LMT 9.2.29 equivalent)
is complete. |
158 |
All customers |
|
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.11 December, 2022
- In the "All Contracts" panel, contracts updated for new metrics
- Product Metrics option added per Contract panel
- New recalculation button added to All Contracts
- New Metric Microsoft SQL Server Physical Cores
- All template derived components assigned to a single, generic product
release
- Managing Microsoft Processor Core licenses
- Improved template signatures
- Oracle features discovery improvements
- Improved handling of CDB/PDB support for Oracle pluggable databases
CDB/PDB discovery and reporting of their licensable options
- Improved discovery of several licenses
- Improved error handling and reporting
- Security improvements
- Defect fixes
Certification for BigFix Inventory 10.0.11 (LMT 9.2.29 equivalent)
is pending. |
157
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to 10.0.11 to allow the new capabilities work for
you. Use Upgrade to the latest version of BigFix Inventory
fixlet from BigFix console to upgrade BigFix Inventory
server. |
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.10.1 November, 2022
- Capability to discover more than 460+ new software versions
- Added new template signatures
- Updated the publisher name from Microfocus to Micro Focus
- Changed definition source of selected Microsoft components
- Defect fixes
Certification for BFI 10.0.10 (LMT 9.2.28 equivalent) is
complete. |
156 |
All customers |
|
Release notes |
Release notes September, 2022 Certification for BFI 10.0.10 (LMT 9.2.28 equivalent) is in
progress. |
155
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to 10.0.10 to allow the new capabilities work for
you. Use Upgrade to the latest version of BigFix Inventory
fixlet from BigFix console to upgrade BigFix Inventory
server. |
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.9.1 August, 2022
- Capability to discover more than 880 new software.
- Improved discovery for various existing software.
- Added SentinelOne Endpoint Protection Agent for Unix & Windows
platform.
- The Update Software Catalog and Run Software Data Harvesting
Tool fixlets were updated.
- Updated MSI Install location property of package information to prefer
regular paths over system paths.
- Changed definition source information on product, version, release,
component and signature view to HCL or IBM Internal Development for
entries in Catalog which uses executable and package information.
- Minimal permissions documented for BigFix Cloud Adapter Kubernetes.
- Defect fixes.
Certification for BFI 10.0.9 (LMT 9.2.28 equivalent) is
complete. |
154
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
|
Release
notes |
Application update 10.0.9 July, 2022
- Template signature to support catalog customizations
- Improved data import performed by removing deprecated features and
panels
- New predefined license metrics
- Security upgrades
- Support for new platforms and systems
- Patronous update
- Conversion of keystores
- Experimental Cache 3 support
- BigFix Inventory Scans and BigFix Client CPU utilization
- Discovery improvements
- Harvesting tool improvements
- Containers support improvements
Certification for BFI 10.0.9 (LMT 9.2.28 equivalent) is
pending. |
153
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to 10.0.9 to allow the new capabilities work for
you. |
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.8.1May, 2022
- Enterprise signature content integration for more than 105 new
software
- Updates includes for publishers, such as Adobe, Canonical, Dell,
Microsoft, etc.
- SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
- Definition source changed to HCL for Microsoft Office, SQL Server,
and MS Operating systems
- Name of Veritas NetBackup Server to Veritas NetBackup
Master Server for all the existing signatures from GAM.
- New Discovery of Microsoft Visual Studio 2022
- Signatures modified for Quest Web Parts for SharePoint , Remotely
Anywhere and Remotely Anywhere for IBM , SaltStack Salt & Salt
Minion signatures , MongoDB, and Tripwire Enterprise Agent
- Harvesting tool improvements
- Defect fixes
Certification for BFI 10.0.8 (LMT 9.2.26 equivalent) is
complete. |
152
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
|
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.8March, 2022
- Improvements in container support for software discovery - new
cluster technologies verified for Kubernetes API compatibility.
- Extended support for HP-UX managed services
- Optional software data harvesting tool for better software
discovery
- Option to add custom information in the access blocked error for SSO
user
- Option to change the Provide Feedback email in the custom
email address
- Improved scanner cache optimization
- Keystore format changed from JCEKS to PKCS12
- Added CVE metadata to Log4j update fixlet
- Improved serviceability settings for better catalog
customization
- Updated End-of-support for BigFix 9.2 and 9.5 components
- IEST API for assigning a product to a FlexPoint or a Cloud Pack
offering
- Support for new platforms and systems
- Defect fixes
Certification for BFI 10.0.8 (LMT 9.2.26 equivalent) is
pending. |
151
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to 10.0.8 to allow the new capabilities work for you.
To upgrade the BigFix Inventory server to application update 10.0.8.0, run the
'Upgrade to the latest version of BigFix Inventory' fixlet from the BigFix
console. |
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.7.1February, 2022
- Detection of Windows 11 after running the Initiate Software Scan
fixlet
- New template signatures added
- Discovery of 300 and more software versions including Autodesk Inc.,
Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat
- Update the Log4j library in VM Manager Tool to version 2.17.1 -
(10.0.7.0.1)
- Update VM Manager Tool to version (10.0.7.1)
- Unified naming convention for Java
- Defect fixes
Certification for BFI 10.0.7 (LMT 9.2.25 equivalent) is
complete. |
150
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
|
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.7December, 2021
- Software discovery in containers
- Support for Windows 11 using BigFix Client
- Improved contracts REST API.
- Trace level setting in disconnected scanner to set new values.
- ksh no longer required for installing BigFix Inventory
- Capability to discover 440+ software titles.
- Defect fixes.
Certification for BFI 10.0.7 (LMT 9.2.25 equivalent) is
pending. |
148
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to 10.0.7 to allow the new capabilities work for
you. |
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.6.1 November, 2021
- New discovery capabilities for:
- Adobe
- BMC
- CA Technologies
- Cisco Systems Inc
- Citrix
- Dell Computer Corporation
- Hewlett-Packard
- Intel
- Microsoft
- Oracle
- Red Hat
- Several defects fixed and client ideas implemented.
- This release includes Software Catalog version 10.0.6.1 with capability
to discover more than 320 new software versions.
|
147
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
|
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.6
September, 2021
- API to create and modify contracts
- Ability to import contracts from CSV file
- Ability to migrate deprecated contracts
- Allows to convert purchase order from number to ELA and vice
versa
- Set a default products and metric for bundling assistant
- Discovery for more than 435 new signatures, such as Adobe , AutoDesk
Inc., Citrix , Microsoft , Oracle , SAP , SAS, SOLARWINDS, Tableau
Software, and VMware.
- ILMT core module update
- Security updates
- Defect fixes
Certification for BFI 10.0.6 (LMT 9.2.24 equivalent) is
pending. |
145
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to 10.0.6 to allow the new capabilities work for
you. |
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.5.1
August, 2021
- New discovery capability for Adobe, Autodesk, Citrix, JetBrains,
McAfee, Microsoft, MongoDB, Oracle, Veritas, VMware.
- Defect fixes and client ideas implemented.
- Capability to discover more than 270 new software components.
Certification for BFI 10.0.5 (LMT 9.2.23 equivalent) is
complete. |
144
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
|
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.5
|
143
BigFix Inventory
update Note: Original site version 142 has been refreshed to address link
issues. |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to 10.0.5 to allow the new capabilities work for
you. |
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.4.1
May, 2021
- Added capability to discover 160 software versions, that includes:
- BMC
- CA Technologies
- Citrix
- Oracle
- Red Hat
- Veritas
- VMware
- Implemented customer ideas
- Defect fixes
Certification for BFI 10.0.4 (LMT 9.2.22 equivalent) is now
complete. |
141
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
|
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.4
March, 2021
- REST APIs available to retrieve, create, change, and delete license
metrics
- REST APIs to integrate multicluster licensing data in IBM License
Service Reporter
- Removal of the “Caused Detection” column and the
“enable_caused_detection” setting in Advanced Server Parameters.
Recognized column is now the primary option to perform your tasks.
- Reporting information about the detailed version of applications
discovered by package-based signatures.
- Database connection encryption
- Regular database index rebuilding
- Search software catalog by component name on the new dashboard
- Fixlet available to download PVU table
- Parameter added to show hidden values
- Improvements in reporting information about detailed version and file
size
- Suppressed discovery of certain software products
- Automatically enabled performance logs
- Security enhancements
- Support for new platforms and systems
- Added capability to discover 350 software versions.
Certification for BFI 10.0.4 (LMT 9.2.22 equivalent) is
pending. |
140
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to 10.0.4 to allow the new capabilities work for
you. |
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.3.1 February, 2021 |
139
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
|
<discontinued> Release notes up to version 10.0.13.1 |
Application update 10.0.3December, 2020
- Changes to supported systems and upgrade paths - BigFix Inventory
version 10.0.3 supports direct upgrade from version 9.2.14 onwards.
For version below 9.2.14, you need to upgrade to BigFix Inventory
10.0.2 and then upgrade to the recent version.
- Improved user interface - improved icons in the menus, dialogs, and
reports
- Discovery of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform version
6.0-6.4.
- Notifications on failed data and catalog imports.
- Assigning components to active BigFix products.
- Security enhancements.
- Discovery improvements
- 221 new signatures added
- 14 new manufactures added
- Support for new systems and hypervisors.
Certification for BFI 10.0.3 (LMT 9.2.21 equivalent) is
complete. |
138
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
|
<discontinued> Release notes up to version 10.0.13.1 |
Content pack 10.0.2.1 November, 2020
- Updated Software Catalog to discover:
- BMC software
- Oracle software
- SAP software
- Tibco software
- Red Hat software
- Open source Apache software
- Oracle Java Advanced Management Console Agent as part of Oracle
Java auditing function
- Microsoft 365 Apps as part of Microsoft Office 365 product
- Defect fixes
- Added 352 new signatures
|
137
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
|
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.2 October, 2020
- Default dashboard now shows vendor-specific reports with an option to
switch to the old dashboard.
- Inventory reports now shows installation path of all discovered
products. If a product is installed at multiple instances, it reports all
paths as separate instances.
- The Software Classification details view now shows only matched
detections. The signature shows a list of all signatures.
- Extended exclusion list on Windows for scanner installation.
- Manual update of IBM catalog is no longer supported by BigFix Inventory.
- Settling entitlement feature allows to mark products as entitled.
- User management parameter allows to capture any change to the user and
user permissions.
- Streamed JSON responses to improve API response time.
- Component Detailed Version provides complete information about the fix
packs.
- Security enhancements.
- Support for new systems and hypervisors.
- Certification for BFI 10.0.2 (LMT 9.2.20 equivalent) is
complete.
|
136
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to 10.0.2 to allow the new capabilities work for
you. |
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.1.1 August, 2020
- Added capability to discover Docker engine and Kubernetes software
- Added discovery capability for 100+ software versions for software
titles, such as Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, McAfee, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP,
and VMware
- Optional feature: Scanner installation for BigFix Inventory on
Windows.
|
135
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
|
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.1 July,
2020 |
134
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
|
Release notes |
Content pack 10.0.0.1May, 2020
- Updated HCL Catalog
- Improved Microsoft .NET Framework version discovery
- Microsoft SQL Server 2019 discovery
- Microsoft SQL Server 2019 discovery
|
133
BigFix Inventory catalog
update |
|
|
Release notes |
Application update 10.0.0.0 March, 2020
|
132
BigFix Inventory
update |
All customers |
You must upgrade BigFix Inventory server to v10 to upgrade database to DB2
11.5. |
<discontinued> Release notes up to version 10.0.13.1 |
Application update 9.2.17.0 February, 2020
- Equivalence to IBM License Metric Tool 9.2.17. For current status of IBM
validated releases, see Passport Advantage.
- Software Catalog version 9.2.17 containing:
- IBM License Metric Tool Software Catalog version 9.2.17.0
- Added discovery capability for Microsoft Windows 2019
- Added discovery capability for components of Adobe Create Cloud
2020
- Added discovery capability for 1300+ other software versions
- Support for new systems
- Hyper-V 2019
- Linux VMs on Nutanix AVH (IBM Power only)
- RHEV 4.2 and 4.3 using new API available in RHEV-M 4.x
|
130
BigFix Inventory
v9 |
All customers |
|
|
Application update 9.2.16.2 December, 2019 Updates
include Software Catalog version 9.2.16.2 containing
- IBM License Metric Tool Software Catalog version 9.2.17.0
- Improved Oracle Java Runtime Environment discovery
|
129
BigFix Inventory
v9 |
All customers |
|
|
Application update 9.2.16.1 October, 2019
- Enhanced software discovery capability
- For more information please refer to Catalog Release Notes: Catalog release notes
- Scanner version 9.2.17.0000 improvements
- Oracle Feature Health Check analysis is updated
- Support for new platforms
- On the endpoint side: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0
|
128
BigFix Inventory
v9 |
All customers |
|
|
Application update 9.2.16 September, 2019
- Improved reporting of IBM FlexPoints
- Setting metric quantity for license metrics that are not calculated by
BigFix Inventory
- You can manually declare the metric quantity for selected license types
for which BigFix Inventory does not calculate license metric utilization
out of the box.
- Extension of the computer_hardware API association
- You can retrieve information about additional hardware parameters, such
as the serial number, vendor, model, or type of the physical server.
- Custom rules for automatically suppressing components that meet
specified criteria
- By specifying the relevant criteria you can create the custom rule which
automatically suppresses the matching components in the future.
- Support for BigFix Inventory server on MS SQL 2017
- MS SQL 2017 is now supported as a database for BigFix Inventory for
fresh installations.
- Discovery with the latest 9.2.15.3 software catalog
- The included software catalog is the latest 9.2.15.3.
- It includes IBM License Metric Tool Software Catalog version
9.2.16.0.
- Security enhancements
- On the endpoint side:
- Update of the Xerces library to version 3.2.1 on AIX to keep
the scanner secure and reliable.
- Support for new platforms
- On the server side:
- On the endpoint side:
- Debian 9 x86 and x64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 x86-64
- SMBIOS3 on Linux
|
127
BigFix Inventory
v9 |
All customers |
|
|
Application update 9.2.15.2
May, 2019
- 'Detecting malware threats based on SHA-256 file checksums' Preview
Feature deactivation announcement.
- End of the support for MS SQL 2008 and 2008 R2 database is planned for
September 2019.
|
125 - BigFix Inventory update 9.2.15.2 |
All customers |
|
|
Content pack 9.2.15.1
April, 2019
- Discovery capability for a number of software components
|
124 - BigFix Inventory content pack 9.2.15.1 |
All customers |
|
|
Application update 9.2.15
March, 2019
- Preview feature: New Software Summary (Preview) report.
- Extended reporting of usage statistics for Java.
- Extended support for new platforms and new virtualization
technologies.
- New Software Installations report that is based on the new data
model.
- Extension of the To Do list.
- Documentation extended with new topics.
- New look and feel of the user interface.
- Usability improvements on the management panels.
- Filtering reports by using matches exactly operator.
- New naming convention for the exported reports.
- Extended discovery of Oracle Databases certified for Oracle Database
18c: 18.3.
- Discovery of new components from Citrix, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and
other.
- Names of BigFix Inventory fixlets in the BigFix console contain
information about version.
- Security enhancements.
|
123 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.14 update |
All customers |
|
|
Content pack 9.2.14.1
February, 2019
- Discovery capability for a number of software components
|
122 - BigFix Inventory content pack 9.2.14.2 |
All customers |
|
|
Content pack 9.2.14.1
January, 2019
- Discovery capability for a number of software components
- Improved discovery of the Oracle database features with the use of the
ReviewLite.sql script and the extension of the Oracle Feature Health
Check analysis with additional information for better
serviceability.
- Modification of the file compression utility used by the fixlets.
|
121 - BigFix Inventory content pack 9.2.14.1 |
All customers |
|
|
Application update 9.2.14
December, 2018
- Reporting license usage for Adobe Creative Cloud products on
Windows.
- Reporting license usage for IBM Rational portfolio.
- Tagging software for more flexible categorization.
- Preview feature: The new dashboard is extended with additional widgets
and quick search.
- New predefined reports.
- Preview feature: Detecting malware threats based on SHA-256 file
checksums.
- Reporting end of support dates for Microsoft products.
- Best practices for configuring VM managers.
- Top navigation bar extended with the icon for providing feedback.
- Changes in the Report menu.
- Users panel is expanded with the information about time and date of the
last login.
- Improvements on the VM Managers panel.
- Migrating software classification with REST API.
- Retrieving information about the license utilization peak and the
contributing software instances through REST API in version 2.
- Discovery of new components from Citrix, Oracle, SAP and other.
- Certification of Microsoft Edge browser.
- Support for new virtualization technologies.
- Security enhancements.
- Information about the session time out after a period of user
inactivity
|
120 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.14 update |
All customers |
|
|
Content pack 9.2.13.2
November, 2018
- Discovery capability for a number of software components
- Software classification capability for new releases of IBM software
products.
- Multiple updates and additions for non-IBM software titles. See the
change list for additional details.
|
119 - BigFix Inventory content pack 9.2.13.2 |
All customers |
|
|
Content pack 9.2.13.1
October, 2018
- Discovery capability for a number of software components
|
118 - BigFix Inventory content pack 9.2.13.1 |
All customers |
|
|
Application update 9.2.13
September, 2018
- Utilization of the Registered User metric for Microsoft Office 365
- Reporting additional IBM metrics based on the resource utilization data
that is delivered by .slmtag files
- Version currency of Internet browsers and other selected software that
changes frequently
- Reporting utilization of FlexPoints
- Preview feature: Visibility of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
(CVEs)
- New predefined reports available under Software Classification
panel
- Preview feature: Security dashboard and reporting
- New To Do list on the top navigation bar
- Information about the shared processor pool
- REST API associations for quick analysis of security risks
- Filtering reports and retrieving data through REST API request by using
is empty and is not empty operators
- Support for BigFix Inventory server on MS SQL 2016
- Discovery of new components from Citrix, Symantec, Oracle and other
- List of software components with end of support dates is updated
- Performance improvements
- Security enhancements
|
117 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.13 update |
All customers |
|
|
Content pack 9.2.12.2
August, 2018
- Discovery capability for a number of software components
|
116 - BigFix Inventory content pack 9.2.12.2 |
|
|
|
Content pack 9.2.12.1
July, 2018
- Discovery capability for a number of software components
|
115 - BigFix Inventory content pack 9.2.12.1 |
|
|
|
Application update 9.2.12
June, 2018
- Reporting detailed hardware information
- Preventing security threats with information about Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) added to the software catalog
- Retrieving information about the discovered software component as
specified in the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) dictionary
- Enhancements to reporting end of support dates
- Using Review Lite script for extended discovery of Oracle databases
- Automatic scanning of remote shared disks
- Collecting utilization data of SAP license metrics with License
Administration Workbench 2.0
- Flexible license management by specifying the type of relation between a
component and a product as charged or not charged based on the specific
license agreement
- Refreshing scan data on a computer through the Support Page
- Resuming a connection to the VM manager
- Information about full version of already discovered files
- Extension of audit snapshot
- A new link to Learning Resources under Help
- Security enhancements
- Support for BigFix Inventory server on DB2 11
|
114 - Fix for
APAR IJ07404
|
Customers who scan shared disks |
|
|
113 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.12 update |
All customers |
|
|
Content pack 9.2.11.3
June, 2018
- Discovery capability for a number of software components
|
112 - BigFix Inventory content pack 9.2.11.3 |
|
|
|
Content pack 9.2.11.2
April, 2018
- Discovery capability for a number of software components
|
110 - BigFix Inventory content pack 9.2.11.2 |
|
|
|
Application update 9.2.11.1
April, 2018
|
107, 108 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.10.1 update |
Customers with large environments with more than 3 millions files used for
software detection. |
|
|
Application update 9.2.11
March, 2018
- Improved license planning and prevention of security risk by setting up
and monitoring end of support dates for specific software
- Utilization of the Virtual Processor Core (VPC) metric for IBM
products
- Introduction of the Package Data Summary report
- Reporting information about the detailed version of Windows
applications
- Discovery of new components from Windows, Corel, Adobe, Symantec and
SAP
- Simplification of updating the software catalog
- Optimizing data imports thanks to enabling a new schema of the BigFix
database
- Preventing accumulation of unprocessed data in case of failing
imports
|
106 - Refresh of the DB2 license terms |
|
|
|
105 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.11 update + March catalog update |
All customers |
|
|
Application update 9.2.10.1
January, 2018
|
104 - February catalog update |
All customers |
|
|
103 - January catalog update |
All customers |
|
|
102 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.10.1 update |
All customers |
|
|
Application update 9.2.10
December, 2017
- Reporting usage of products such as Microsoft Office at suite level
aggregated per computer
- Collecting and measuring utilization of SAP license metrics
- Adding products to the software catalog
- Information about imported part numbers that influenced the initial
classification is visible on the Software Classification panel
- REST API for advanced integration and data sharing
- New computer status - Outdated VM Manager Data
- Stand-alone scanner for monitoring isolated HP-UX computers
- Information about the number of partition cores
- Discovery of new components from HP, SAP, BMC and other
- Optimizing the import of data
- Serviceability improvements
- Support for Docker containers under Red Hat OpenShift
|
99, 100 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.10 update + December catalog
update |
All customers |
|
|
Application update 9.2.9
October, 2017
- Reporting of SAP license usage with integration of SAP License
Administration Workbench (SLAW) and SAP USMM
- Discovery of Oracle Database extended to Solaris
- Discovery of new components from Oracle, SAP, and Red Hat
- Adding custom fields to license metric reports
- Reporting information about the detailed version of software
components
- Stand-alone scanner for monitoring isolated AIX computers
- Filtering the Package Data report to view the packages that can be used
to create new software signatures
- Improved security of storing VM manager passwords
- Configuring LDAP server that uses load balancer to preserve server
certificates
- User interface improvements
- Scanner improvements
- Version of the application build visible in PDF reports
- Software catalog enhancements
|
98 - November catalog update |
All customers |
APARs delivered in the catalog update
|
|
97 - VM Manager Tool updated to version 1.6.0.1 |
All customers |
VM Manager Tool version 1.6.0.1 supports RHEV-M version 4.x. The support
covers instances that use HTTP Basic Authentication and version 3 REST
API.
RHEV-M 4.x uses different URL than the earlier versions.
|
|
96 - October catalog update |
All customers |
|
|
95 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.9 update + September catalog update |
All customers |
|
|
Application update 9.2.8
June, 2017
- Utilization of the Single and Dual Physical Processor metrics for
Microsoft Windows Server
- Utilization of the Oracle Processor Core metric for Oracle
Databases
- Reporting software installed on shared disks based on software
templates
- Collecting executable files based on application usage
- Version 2 of REST APIs for software and hardware inventory
- Assigning a new license metric to an existing product
- Configuration of user account lockout
- Stand-alone scanner for monitoring isolated Solaris computers
- Automatic decommissioning of computers that are inactive for a specified
period of time
- Fixlet for collecting logs to troubleshoot problems with computers
- Viewing all signatures that are defined for a component in the software
catalog
- Improved browsing of the software catalog content
- Serviceability improvements
- Information about supported operating systems can be dynamically
generated through SPCR
- Discovery of new components from Oracle, SAP, and Red Hat
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94 - August catalog update |
All customers |
APARs delivered in the catalog update
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93 - July catalog update |
All customers |
APARs delivered in the catalog update
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92 - Disconnected scanner package updated with the scanner version
2.8.0.4001 |
Customers who use disconnected scans |
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91 - Fixlet site update to address a problem with scanner performance
and the software scan |
All customers |
If you installed the scanner in version 2.8.0.4000, upgrade it to version
2.8.0.4001.
If you started the software scan by using the Initiate Software Scan fixlet
from site number 90, restart the scan action by using the fixlet from site
number 91.
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90 - Fixlet site update to address a problem with initiating the
software scan |
All customers |
If you started the software scan by using the Initiate Software Scan fixlet
from site number 89, restart the scan action by using the fixlet from site
number 90. |
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89 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.8 update + June catalog update |
All customers |
APARs delivered in the catalog update:
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Application update 9.2.7
March, 2017
- New Software Classification panel replaces the IBM Software
Classification panel
- Creation of custom classification rules
- Utilization of the Physical Core and Virtual Core metrics for Microsoft
SQL Server with Software Assurance
- Utilization of license metrics for VMware vCenter and vSphere
- Discovery of SAP components
- Utilization of the Install Instances metric for IBM products
- Overview of license metrics that are used by IBM products in your
infrastructure
- Discovery of software and hardware inventory with disconnected scans on
Windows and Linux
- API for adding and changing VM managers
- Adding custom part numbers to the catalog
- Extension of two bundling rules: bundling tags and part numbers
- Two-phase matching of file signatures
- Configuring security policy for user passwords
- Improvements of the VM Manager Tool
- Optimization of migration
- New look and feel of the user interface
- Discovery of new components from Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle
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88 - May catalog update |
All customers |
APARs delivered in the catalog update:
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87 - April catalog update |
All customers |
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86 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.7 update + March catalog update |
APARs delivered in the catalog update:
- IV80621
- IV81865
- IV81714
- IV80371
- IV81815
- IV93555
- IV93252
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Application update 9.2.6
December, 2016
- Enhanced discovery of Microsoft Exchange editions
- Reporting high water mark of Oracle Database user sessions
- Measuring application usage on Mac OS X
- Utilization of the Install Seats metric for products discovered by SWID
tags
- Upload of PVU table and software catalog during the upgrade
- Reduced impact of scans due to the optimization of the scanner cache
folder on the endpoints
- Searching the software catalog by part number
- Best practices for database backup
- Fixlet version visible in the BigFix client logs
- Improved performance of generating CSV reports
- Additional options for migrating from License Metric Tool and Tivoli
Asset Discovery for Distributed 7.x
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PREVIEW FEATURE: Utilization of the physical core-based metric for
Microsoft SQL Server
-
PREVIEW FEATURE: Extension of the Software Classification
panel
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84, 85 - February catalog update |
All customers |
APARs delivered in the catalog update:
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83 - January catalog update |
APARs delivered in the catalog update:
- IV91508
- IV90557
- IV90764
- IV91182
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82 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.6 update + December catalog update |
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Application update 9.2.5.1
October, 2016
- Fix for APARs IV89617, IV90167, IV90129
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81 - November catalog update |
All customers |
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80 - October catalog update |
All customers |
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79 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.5.1 update |
All customers |
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Application update 9.2.5
September, 2016
- Utilization of the Install metric for non-IBM products
- Software discovery on IBM i
- Software discovery in Docker containers
- Bundling tags for improved software classification
- Determining the usage of Virtual Processor Cores (VPC)
- Information about software scan duration
- New VM manager status - Insufficient rights
- Information about processor brand string
- Forcing re-upload of software scan results
- Installing the scanner in an alternative path
-
PREVIEW FEATURE: Extension of the Software Classification
panel
|
78 - Fixlet site update to address security vulnerability in the
compressing utility used by the scanner |
All customers |
|
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77 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.5 update + September catalog update |
All customers |
|
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Application update 9.2.4
June, 2016
- Setting metric thresholds for IBM products
- Sharing feedback
- Improvements for VM managers
- API to retrieve cluster information
- Support for BigFix database restoration
- Optimization of the scanner cache configuration
- Discovery of software that is not in the current software catalog
-
PREVIEW FEATURE: New Software Classification panel
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76 - August catalog update |
All customers |
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75 - July catalog update |
All customers |
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74 - June catalog update |
All customers |
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72, 73 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.4 update |
All customers |
|
Application update 9.2.3.1
April, 2016
- Fix for APAR IV83558 (Upgrade issue on DB2)
- Performance improvements
|
71 - May 2016 catalog update |
All customers |
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70 - April 2016 catalog update |
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69 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.3.1 update |
Customers who have not yet upgraded to application update 9.2.3.
If you already upgraded to version 9.2.3, you can install the update to
improve the application performance.
|
Upgrade from version earlier than 9.2.3: Stop the actions created by
the Initiate Software Scan and Upload Software Scan Results fixlets and
start them again by using the fixlets from the updated BigFix Inventory
site.
Upgrade from version 9.2.3: Stop the actions created by the Initiate
Software Scan fixlet and start them again by using the fixlet from the
updated BigFix Inventory site.
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Application update 9.2.3
March, 2016
- Support for Unicode
- Collecting file MD5 and SHA256 checksums for security purposes
- Conditional report emails based on the number of rows in the report
- Controlling scan schedule directly from the BigFix Inventory user
interface
- Data visibility and license reporting per computer group limited to
authorized users
- Replacing Software Knowledge Base Toolkit with BigFix Inventory for
managing the software catalog content
- Flexible date filtering
- Collecting host serial numbers
- Forcing capacity scan data uploads
- Changing advanced server settings from the application user
interface
- Manually adjusting the PVU per core value from the BigFix Inventory user
interface
|
67, 68 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.3 update + March 2016 catalog
update |
All customers |
Stop the actions created by the Initiate Software Scan and Upload Software
Scan Results fixlets and start them again by using the fixlets from the
updated BigFix Inventory site.
If you do not restart these actions, results of the delta file system scan
are not generated and the full file system scan is always uploaded to the
BigFix server.
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Application update 9.2.2
December, 2015
- License reports per IBM subcapacity region
- License reports per organizational business unit
- License reports in the service provider environment
- Creating extended signatures
- REST API for retrieving raw scan data
- Consolidated endpoint information
- Disabling the calculation of extended software aggregates
- Configuring location of the scanner cache folder
- Identifying VM manager duplicates
- Defining time range of reports in relation to the current data
- Support for new platforms
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66 - February catalog update |
All customers |
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65 - January catalog update |
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64 - December catalog update |
|
63 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.2 update |
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Application update 9.2.1
October, 2015
- Rebranding from IBM Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis to IBM
BigFix Inventory
- Discovery of software installed on Mac OS
- Extended discovery of Oracle Database
- Monitoring utilization of license metrics other than PVU and RVU
MAPC
- Single Sign-On
- Coexistence of multiple instances of BigFix Inventory on one BigFix
platform
- Identifying computers running on public clouds
- Creating custom signatures based on non-standard file types
- Adding custom bundling options
- Checking why a Fixlet is not relevant
- Manually adjusting the PVU per core value
- Importing delta file system scan
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62 - November catalog update |
All customers |
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61 - October catalog update |
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59 and 60 - Fix for incorrectly encoded Japanese and Chinese
translated files introduced during site propagation 58. |
|
58 - Fix of relevance errors reported by BigFix console for one of
troubleshooting fixlet (internal defect 143747) |
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57 - BigFix Inventory 9.2.1 update + September 2015 catalog |
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Application update 9.2.0.2
June 25, 2015
- Migrating customizations from Software Use Analysis 2.2
- Coexistence of Software Use Analysis and License Metric Tool on one
Endpoint Manager server
- Collecting capacity data directly from KVM hosts
- Hiding free software instances from the IBM Software Classification
panel
- PowerShell as the communication interface for Hyper-V
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55 and 56 - August 2015 catalog |
All customers |
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53 and 54 - July 2015 catalog |
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52 - June 2015 catalog |
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50, 51 - SUA 9.2.0.2 update |
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Application update 9.2.0.1
May 19, 2015
|
48 - Fixed pre-fetch syntax error |
Customers with IEM enhanced security mode enabled and SHA-256 downloads
required |
Only fixlet for upgrading to the newest version of SUA changed.
|
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47 - SUA 9.2.0.1 update |
All customers |
The update is recommended for all customers who are using SUA 9.2 |
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Application update 9.2
March 19, 2015
- Windows installer for the Software Use Analysis server working with MS
SQL server database
- Migration from TAD4D 7.2.2 and 7.5
- Scan groups and scan schedule migration
- Coexistence between SUA 2.2 and 9.x
- Serviceability improvements for VM managers
What's new in this release
|
46 - April 2015 catalog |
All customers |
Coexistence with Software Use Analysis 2.2. |
|
45 - April 2015 catalog; SwKBT database refreshed with new
catalog |
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44 - Refreshed installers with fix for APAR IV70954 |
|
42, 43 - Removal of the ability to install/upgrade because of
APAR IV70954 |
|
41 - SUA 9.2 GA |
|
Application update 9.0.1.2
December 19, 2014
- Migration from TAD4D 7.5
- Optimized volume of scanned file data
- Information about software that is installed on UNIX shared disks
- Scan health widget
What's new in this release
|
40 - February 2015 catalog |
Customers migrating from Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed 7.5
|
The number of file extensions that are scanned and analyzed on the endpoints
is smaller, which reduces the load on the Software Use Analysis server. To
get accurate results, you must run a new software scan shortly after you
have applied this patch.
The ability to scan shared disks on demand. This can result in multiple
clients scanning a shared disk at the same time, which can lower the
performance of the shared disk. Moreover, software scans and data imports
can be longer.
|
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39 - January 2015 catalog |
|
38 - SUA 9.0.1.2 refresh |
|
37 - VMMAN_Tool/1.0.0.6 |
|
36 - November 2014 catalog |
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35 - SUA 9.0.1.2 update with September 2014 catalog |
|
34 - November 2014 catalog fix |
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Application update 9.0.1.1
October 30, 2014
- Export of the entire software inventory to a CSV file
- Support for Power Systems on Linux (Endpoint Manager client)
What's new in this release
|
33 - November 2014 catalog |
|
|
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32 - Minor content updates |
|
31 - Minor content updates |
|
30 - Minor content updates |
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29 - SUA 9.0.1.1 update |
|
Application update 9.0.1
August 17, 2014
- Deployment Health widget
- Integration with SmartCloud Control Desk (SCCD)
- Managing the software scan from the web user interface
- Customized report views
- REST API for exporting and importing customized report views
- REST API for retrieving computers, software, and license use
- Automatic capacity configuration for Linux on z/VM
- Support for the ISO/IEC 19970-2 standard
- CPU pooling on Linux for IBM System z
- Shorter catalog import time
What's new in this release
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28 - CIT v 2.7.0.2043 |
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27 - September 2014 catalog |
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26 - July 2014 catalog |
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25 - SUA 9.0.1 GA with June 2014 catalog |
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Application update 9.0.0.2
June 2014
This update contains fixes for APARs.
What's new in this release
|
24 - July 2014 catalog |
|
|
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23 - Minor content updates |
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22 - SUA 9.0.0.2 update |
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Application update 9.0.0.1
March 2014
- Native catalog export and import
- IBM software catalog versioned according to its release date
- Fixlet for diagnosing the Common Inventory Technology scanner
- APARS and defects
What's new in this release
|
21 - April 2014 catalog |
|
|
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20 - CIT version 2.7.0.2039 |
|
19 - March 2014 catalog |
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18 - February 2014 catalog |
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17 - SUA 9.0.0.1 update |
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Application update 9.0
December 2013
- Subcapacity reports
- New and enhanced user interface: dashboard and top menu
- Audit log
What's new in this release
|
16 - Minor content updates |
|
|
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15 - Minor content updates |
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14 - Minor content updates |
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13 - CIT version 2.7.0.2000 |
|
12 - Minor content updates |
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11 - Minor content updates |
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10 - SUA 9.0 GA |
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