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Overview
Become familiar with key concepts that are necessary to understand how BigFix Inventory works and learn about features and functions that are introduced in every version of the application.
Dashboards in BigFix Inventory
Dashboards in BigFix Inventory provide a comprehensive overview of your IT environment. They allow you to monitor and analyze data related to software usage, hardware inventory, and license compliance. By using these dashboards, you can gain insights into your organization's assets and make informed decisions to optimize resource utilization and ensure compliance with licensing agreements.
Health Check
The Health Check dashboard in BigFix Inventory provides overall statistics about software and hardware scan and more granular information about each endpoint’s scan status to help with troubleshooting.

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Welcome to the BigFix Inventory documentation, where you can find information about how to install and configure BigFix Inventory. The application provides you with information about your inventory and license metrics. You can manage your software assets, gather information about your hardware, and ensure license compliance for your enterprise using BigFix Inventory.
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Overview
Become familiar with key concepts that are necessary to understand how BigFix Inventory works and learn about features and functions that are introduced in every version of the application.
- What's new in this release
  BigFix Inventory provides new features and enhancements that facilitate your work with the application. For more information, follow BigFix Forum - Inventory (Release Announcements).
- Features and functions
  BigFix Inventory provides useful features for managing physical and virtualized environments. It discovers the software that is installed in your infrastructure, helps you to analyze the consumption data, and allows you to generate reports.
- Preview features
  BigFix Inventory provides a set of preview features that give you a chance to take a sneak peek at what we are currently developing and researching. Whether it is a small function or an extended report, you can check how it works and tell us about your ideas. The previews can change with each release, which means that you can still influence their final form.
- Keeping BigFix Inventory up-to-date
  BigFix Inventory updates and content packs are released periodically. Ensure that you upgrade the BigFix Inventory server with each release to take advantage of the new features and apply the application patches.
- Dashboards in BigFix Inventory
  Dashboards in BigFix Inventory provide a comprehensive overview of your IT environment. They allow you to monitor and analyze data related to software usage, hardware inventory, and license compliance. By using these dashboards, you can gain insights into your organization's assets and make informed decisions to optimize resource utilization and ensure compliance with licensing agreements.
  - Inventory Dashboard (default dashboard)
    With version 11.0.4, BigFix Inventory brings a new 'Inventory Dashboard' which provides overall and breakdown data about your software database. The new dashboard is displayed by default if the preferred homepage is not set and you have the required permissions to view it.
  - Reports Dashboard
    The 'Reports Overview Dashboard' in BigFix Inventory provides a centralized view of key data insights, offering users an at-a-glance summary of inventory reports, software deployment status, and system health metrics. This dashboard helps streamline decision-making by displaying real-time analytics, trends, and performance indicators, making it easier to monitor and manage your organization's IT assets efficiently.
  - Health Check
    The Health Check dashboard in BigFix Inventory provides overall statistics about software and hardware scan and more granular information about each endpoint’s scan status to help with troubleshooting.
  - Spend Overview Dashboard
    The Spend dashboard in BigFix Inventory provides a comprehensive view of software and hardware usage costs. It enables you to track and analyze software spend, optimize license utilization, and manage budget allocation effectively. The dashboard displays key financial metrics, such as license compliance, cost breakdowns, and trends, helping organizations make informed decisions about software investments.
  - License Optimizer for desktop applications
    The License Optimizer dashboard in BigFix Inventory delivers AI-powered pricing insights and essential tools to optimize licenses and reduce costs for a set of desktop applications. It enables you to track and analyze statistics of unused software and undeployed licenses to manage budget allocation effectively. The dashboard displays key financial metrics, such as comparison of contract spend to market price, potential savings, cost breakdowns, helping organizations make informed decisions about software allocation and license purchases.
  - License Optimizer for Microsoft SQL Server
    A new License Optimizer dashboard is provided for Microsoft SQL Server products, Enterprise and Standard Edition, providing insights and essential tools to optimize licenses and reduce costs, taking into account the specific license type.
- To Do list
  Available from 9.2.13. The To Do list provides you with information about items that might require your action including failed imports of data, availability of a new version of BigFix Inventory or the need to configure a connection to VM managers.
- Key concepts
  There are several concepts that will help you to understand how BigFix Inventory works and how to use it effectively.
- Business Scenarios
  To understand the business goals that you can achieve with BigFix Inventory, familiarize yourself with the main user scenarios. Each scenario presents a real-life example of using the application and lists personas who are typically involved in achieving a business goal.
- Limitations
  Review the list of BigFix Inventory limitations. For information on IBM limitations, refer to IBM limitations.
- <discontinued> Updates and patches for BigFix Inventory up to version 10.0.13.1
  This page provides information about application updates released for BigFix Inventory.
Installing
Learn about the requirements and available installation scenarios to ensure that the deployment of BigFix Inventory goes smoothly in your environment.
Configuring
After you install BigFix Inventory, configure the application. Create accounts for the users who need access to the application and set up scans to collect software and hardware inventory data from your environment.
Upgrading
A new version of BigFix Inventory is released periodically, typically at the end of each calendar quarter. Upgrade to the new version regularly to take full advantage of new features and application fixes.
Catalog Overview
This section provides information about catalog updates available with every release.
Managing the infrastructure
After you complete the initial configuration of BigFix Inventory, learn how to manage components of its infrastructure: VM managers, server, database, and data sources.
Software inventory and license utilization
You can classify the discovered software so that reports in BigFix Inventory reflect your entitlements and properly show utilization of license metrics by particular products.
Managing security threats
Learn how to use BigFix Inventory to manage security threats in your environment. You can view whether any of the installed components is prone to any Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE).
Tutorials
Tutorials help you understand how to use BigFix Inventory. They consist of modules that focus on broad goals. Modules consist of tasks that show how to configure specific settings step-by-step.
Security
Configure different security features to adequately protect business assets and resources in the data model when using BigFix Inventory.
Troubleshooting and support
Learn about solutions to common problems that might arise when you use BigFix Inventory BigFix Inventory and how to find logs and trace files that help you troubleshoot those problems.
Integrating with REST API
External systems integration is one of the key features of BigFix Inventory. Business logic is enabled for integration and interfaces are provided for common integration points.
Glossary
Guide in PDF format
DataFlow ServiceNow Integration
Service Graph Connector Integration

Health Check

The Health Check dashboard in BigFix Inventory provides overall statistics about software and hardware scan and more granular information about each endpoint’s scan status to help with troubleshooting.

Required permission: View Endpoints and View Hardware Inventory

Health Check dashboard widgets

Hardware/Software Scan Health widget

The number of subscribed computers by software/hardware scan status.

'Success' means that there is no significant problems with the scan.
'Partial' means that there are medium problem resulting in partial or obsolete scan data.
'Failed' means that there are major problems resulting in lack of scan data.

Drilldown to Computers panel using the Is Subscribed filter set to 'Yes' and hardware/software scan status from the given category.

For the complete list of hardware scan statuses, refer to Computer statuses.

For the complete list of software scan statuses, refer to Software Scan Status.

Note: Hardware Scan Health does not include Mac OS computers for which hardware scan status is not applicable.

Total Subscribed Computers

The number of computers subscribed to the BigFix Inventory site. Drilldown to Computers panel using the Is Subscribed filter set to 'Yes'.

Pending IBM Software Classification

The number of not confirmed IBM software instances which were reported during the last 90 days. Drilldown to Software Classification panel using the not suppressed software instances filter with component publisher equal to ‘IBM’, having discovery end date within last 90 days or still present, and Confirmed not equal to 'Yes'.