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BigFix® for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches in a virtual environment.
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Configuring the Management Extender

Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
- Patch for Windows User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Windows™ provides Fixlets for Microsoft™ security and non-security patches. Dashboards, wizards, and reports aid you in managing updates for various endpoint devices.
- Patch for AIX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for AIX® provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all AIX endpoints.
- Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux endpoints.
- Patch for CentOS Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patch for CentOS Linux™ provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all CentOs endpoints.
- Patch for Amazon Linux 2 User's Guide
  BigFix® Patch for Amazon Linux™ provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Amazon Linux 2 endpoints.
- Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all SUSE Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Ubuntu User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Ubuntu provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Ubuntu endpoints.
- Patch for Oracle Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patches for Oracle Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Oracle Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Solaris User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Solaris provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Solaris endpoints.
- Patch for HP-UX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for HP-UX provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all HP-UX endpoints.
- Patch for Mac OS X User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for Mac OS X provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Mac OS X endpoints.
- Patch for Debian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Debian provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Debian endpoints.
- Patch for VMware ESXi User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for VMware ESXi provides you unified, near real-time visibility to manage patches to all VMware ESXi endpoints from a single console.
- Patch for Raspbian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Raspbian provides Fixlets that you use to manage the latest updates and service packs that Raspberry Pi releases. These Fixlets are available through the Patches for Raspbian sites.
- Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide
  BigFix® for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches in a virtual environment.
  - Overview
  - Setup
    - Site subscription
      Sites are collections of Fixlet messages that are created internally by you, by HCL, or by vendors.
    - System Requirements
    - Components
    - Architecture
    - Managing the workload balance
    - Configuring the Management Extender
  - Offline Patching Workflow
  - Virtual Machine Guest Overview
  - Specifying virtual device computers
  - Working with multiple computer representations
  - Troubleshooting
  - Frequently asked questions
  - List of actionscript commands
- Supersedence for Non-Windows
  This topic describes how supersedence works in Patch.

Configuring the Management Extender

Before you can configure the management extender, you must do the following steps:

Install the BigFix relay Version 9.2, 9.5, or 10.0.x.
Deploy Fixlet 801: Deploy Management Extender for VMware vCenter from the Patches for ESXi site. This action appears as applicable when the BigFix relay is installed.
Note: Using the Fixlet to install the Management Extender is now deprecated.
Activate analysis 905: Management Extender Status.

Note: By default, the management extender uses port 443.

Using the Configure Management Extenders dashboard

To use the dashboard, navigate to Systems Lifecycle Domain > Virtual Endpoint Manager > Setup and Configuration > Configure Management Extenders. The Configure Management Extenders dashboard lists all the endpoints where you ran the Deploy Management Extender for VMware vCenter task. Select the management extender that you want to configure. Click Configure.

The Configure Extender window opens. Fill in the values for the following items in the window:

Refresh interval minutes
Set how often the management extender gathers data. A larger refresh cycle is highly suggested. The larger the VMware deployment is, the longer it takes to gather data.
Server name
Admin User
Password

Note: By default, the windows prompts for the server name only. If you choose to do that, the URL that connected is https://(SERVER NAME)/sdk/webService. When the URL is not correct, you can enter your own URL by selecting the Enter vCenter's wev service URL.

The username and password are encrypted using the private key and public key. These keys are set during the deployment of the vCenter management extender. The public key is based on the computer name. The private key is generated during the deployment task. The username and password are then sent to the management extender, which uses the credentials to plug in to the VMware vCenter. The credentials are sent to the endpoint in an encrypted format.

You can view these credentials in the plugin-settings.ini file which is found by default in C:\program files\bigfix enterprises\management extenders\plugin\VMware ESXi 1\plugin.

Note: The plugin-settings.ini file is stored in plain text.

You can configure the management extender again without removing the deployment and configuring it twice.

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