Network Installation Management (NIM) integration

BigFix provides an alternative solution for updating and managing multiple VIOS system through Network Installation Management (NIM). BigFix supports the NIM patch management features in this release.

You can use NIM from the BigFix console to remotely manage VIOS installations and updates in multiple VIOS systems in your environment.

For more information about NIM, see the IBM VIOS Information Center. The VIOS information centers are version-specific. To see the list of available VIOS information centers, see the IBM VIOS resources at: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/resources.html

The Patches for VIOS site provides dashboards that you can use to install, configure, and manage your NIM environment. For more information about these dashboard, see NIM dashboards overview.