BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
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.
Use the Fixlets on the Patches for AIX Fixlet site to apply AIX patches to your deployment.
Welcome to the BigFix Patch documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the BigFix Patch.
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.
BigFix Patch for AIX® provides unified, real-time visibility, and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all endpoints from a single console. BigFix Patch keeps your AIX clients current with the latest packages, service packs, and fixes.
The download plug-ins, AIX Plug-in, and AIX Plug-in R2 are executable programs that download a relevant patches directly from the patch vendor. Fixlets use an internal protocol to communicate with the download plug-in to download files. These Fixlets are based on updates made by the vendor.
You can use the AIX download cacher utility to deploy service pack, concluding service pack, or technology level fixes. The download cacher uses HTTP to download specific fix packs. Ensure that HTTP network traffic is not blocked in your environment.
Configure the target AIX systems and the BigFix server to download filesets from the internet.
Fileset installations can be in either an Applied or a Committed state.
You can deploy technology level and service pack updates through the BigFix released content or the custom content that is generated by the AIX Deployment Wizard.
Use the AIX Interim Fix Management Wizard to create Fixlets to install customized interim fixes on AIX systems.
BigFix provides Fixlets for interim fixes that are released through an AIX vulnerability advisory or subscription notification. You can deploy these Fixlets to install interim fixes to endpoints. For customized interim fixes, you can use the AIX Interim Fix Management Wizard to create custom Fixlets for deployment.
Interim fixes lock their target filesets to prevent any changes to the filesets while the interim fix is installed.
You can use the AIX Deployment Wizard to deploy packages for firmware updates, which are also known as microcode updates, on endpoints that are not managed by IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC). These updates can be in either .rpm or .iso format.
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You can deploy firmware updates, also known as microcode updates, by using the custom content that was created by the AIX Deployment Wizard.
You can use the AIX Deployment Wizard to deploy fileset updates and program temporary fixes (PTFs).
You can use the AIX Deployment Wizard to deploy packages for service packs, concluding service packs, and technology levels.
Use the AIX Advanced Deployment Wizard to deploy technology level and service pack fix packs to a new or existing alternate disk clone.
Use the AIX Advanced Deployment Wizard to deploy technology level and service pack fix packs to a new or an existing standby BOS.
Use the AIX Advanced Deployment Wizard to create Fixlets that check the preinstallation requirements of a selected fix pack against the endpoints in your environment.
You can use the AIX Advanced Deployment Wizard to create tasks to reject filesets that are in the applied state and restore the previous version of the update. You can reject individual filesets or all the filesets for a specific fix pack. You can run a preview of the action to ensure that it completes successfully without rejecting any filesets. You can also specify whether you want to reject filesets that have dependencies and do not meet the rejection checks.
To help manage technology level or service pack fix packs on a remote disk space, BigFix Patch offers the NFS (Network File System) Repository Management feature on the AIX Advanced Deployment Wizard.
Deploy AIX technology level and service pack updates as a full fix pack bundle and not as individual filesets. Updating individual filesets might cause unexpected results.
Learn which common factors affect the outcome of a deployment.
BigFix provides an alternative solution for updating and managing multiple AIX system through Network Installation Management (NIM). BigFix supports the NIM patch management features in this release.
For more information about this product, see the following resources:
When problems occur when patching AIX endpoints, review the log files to determine what went wrong and how to correct the errors.
The questions and answers in this section can help you to better understand BigFix Patch for AIX®.
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.
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.
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 endpoints.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BigFix Patch for VMware ESXi provides you unified, near real-time visibility to manage patches to all VMware ESXi endpoints from a single console.
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.
BigFix Patch for Rocky 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 Rocky Linux endpoints.
BigFix Patch for Open SUSE Leap 15 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 Open SUSE Leap 15 endpoints.
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.
Middleware patching is an important process for organizations to ensure their systems are secure and up to date. By applying the appropriate patches and security updates, organizations can minimize the risk of malicious attacks and potential data loss. BigFix users can enjoy unified patch management by using a single platform for deploying database and middleware patches.
This topic describes how supersedence works in Patch.
BigFix content supporting the Extended Support Updates (ESU) patching program from Microsoft® is available as an add-on to BigFix Patch, BigFix Lifecycle and BigFix Compliance.
The tables in this section provide detailed information about the system requirements for BigFix 11.
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Patch user guides in PDF format:
Please refer to Supersedence for Non-Windows to know more about the supersedence.
