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BigFix 11 Lifecycle Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Lifecycle documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use BigFix Lifecycle.
BigFix Platform
BigFix Query
Lifecycle overview
BigFix Lifecycle is single-agent, single-console technology that provides near real-time visibility into the state of endpoints.
Lifecycle guides in PDF format
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Lifecycle guides in PDF format:
Software Distribution
Use the BigFix Software Distribution applications to deploy software to endpoints across your network from a single location. Maintain control and visibility into software delivery and installation. Device owners can use the Self Service Application to manage software and other BigFix actions that are deployed to them as offers.
OS Deployment
BigFix OS Deployment, which is part of the BigFix Lifecycle Management suite, provides a consolidated, comprehensive solution to quickly deploy new workstations and servers throughout a network from a single, centralized location. This solution saves time and money, enforces a standardized and approved image, and reduces risks associated with non-compliant or insecure configurations.
Remote Control
BigFix Remote Control application helps to communicate between different components, clients, and endpoints within BigFix environment.
Power Management
Use Power Management to control, monitor, and manage conservation policies in your deployment.
Server Automation
Server Automation provides powerful automation. You can use it to sequence automation actions in steps across multiple endpoints.
Profile Management
Profile Management is a WebUI-based feature of BigFix Lifecycle. It provides Security Administrators the capability to define and deploy security policies to Windows 10 and macOS devices.
BigFix Remediate
BigFix MCM

BigFix Platform

BigFix enables organizations to securely manage even the most intermittently connected mobile users, delivering continuous updates regardless of connectivity to the internal corporate network and enforcing policies offline to ensure regulatory compliance.

BigFix provides the following new features and enhancements:

Unicode support: BigFix 11 Platform gathers data from BigFix clients deployed with different code pages and languages, encodes the data into UTF-8 format, and reports it back to the BigFix server.
HTTPS gathering: you can gather license updates and external sites via the HTTPS protocol on a BigFix server or in an airgapped environment.
SAML V2.0 integration: BigFix uses the passport-saml authentication provider to allow both Identity provider (IdP) initiated and Service provider (SP) initiated authentication.
Database cleanup tools: you can use the BESAdmin interface or the BESAdmin command line to remove data about computers, custom fixlets, properties, analyses, and actions and to update the PropertyIDMap table with changes.
FillDB log rotation: it is active by default with LogFileSizeLimit set to 100 MB.

For more information about BigFix 11 Platform, see the following Help Center: BigFix 11 Platform documentation.

For more information about the changes and the enhancements, see What is new in BigFix 11 Platform.