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Patch on BigFix UI
The Patch Overview dashboard gives you a consolidated, risk-prioritized view of missing patches and vulnerable devices across your environment, with drill-down navigation into Fixlets, Devices, and Deployments.
Patch Dashboard
Patch in the BigFix UI provides a fully integrated patch management experience in the Resolve menu, giving IT administrators and patch managers a single, risk-prioritized view of missing patches and vulnerable devices without requiring the BES Console.
Charts and widgets
Charts and ranked-list widgets visualize patch risk and impact across your environment.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
BigFix 11 Patch Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Patch documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the BigFix Patch.
BigFix Platform
Patch Overview
Learn how BigFix Patch offers an automated and streamlined patch management solution, simplifying the patching process that is administered from a single console.
Patch guides in PDF format
Below is a comprehensive list of links to the BigFix Patch user guides available in PDF format, designed to assist users in navigating and utilizing the software effectively:
Patch User Guides
Explore how BigFix Patch streamlines automated patch management, enhances vulnerability remediation, and facilitates seamless update deployment from a unified console. This comprehensive solution ensures efficient system maintenance and security, making it an essential tool for IT professionals.
Patch on BigFix UI
The Patch Overview dashboard gives you a consolidated, risk-prioritized view of missing patches and vulnerable devices across your environment, with drill-down navigation into Fixlets, Devices, and Deployments.
- Get started with Patch
  Patch in the BigFix UI has two entry points: the Fixlet explorer under Explore, where you find the patches that apply to your devices and deploy them, and the Patch dashboard under Resolve, which gives you a risk-prioritized overview of what is outstanding.
- Patch Dashboard
  Patch in the BigFix UI provides a fully integrated patch management experience in the Resolve menu, giving IT administrators and patch managers a single, risk-prioritized view of missing patches and vulnerable devices without requiring the BES Console.
  - How to access Patch Dashboard
    Open the Patch dashboard from the Resolve menu in the BigFix UI.
  - KPI cards
    KPI cards are summary metric tiles shown at the top of the Patch Dashboard Overview page.
  - Charts and widgets
    Charts and ranked-list widgets visualize patch risk and impact across your environment.
  - Filters
    Narrow the whole Patch Dashboard Overview page to a subset of Fixlets. Filters are applied to all KPI cards and charts simultaneously, except the Deployment Backlog card.
  - Drill-down navigation
    The Patch Dashboard does not deploy patches itself. Use the click-through links on each card and chart to reach the page where you take action.
  - Viewing and exporting dashboard data
    Display any widget's underlying data as a table, and export the whole dashboard or an individual widget.
- Patch Compliance Report
  The Patch Compliance Report shows the update health of your environment by tracking, for every applicable patch, how many of the targeted devices have been successfully remediated. Use it to isolate outstanding vulnerabilities and to produce audit-ready evidence of patch compliance.
- Tooltip text
  The following text is shown when you hover over the information (i) icon of each card or chart.
- Troubleshooting
  Understand these common issues and known considerations so that you can effectively troubleshoot the Patch Dashboard Overview page.
Detailed system requirements
The tables in this section provide detailed information about the system requirements for BigFix 11.
Technical Reference
Detailed documentation of system components, configurations, and patch management processes.
General Information
Overview of key concepts, features, and basic usage of the patch management system.
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the BigFix® Patch software and products.

Charts and widgets

Charts and ranked-list widgets visualize patch risk and impact across your environment.

Table 1. Patch Dashboard charts and widgets
Widget	What it shows	Where it takes you
Fixlets by Severity (donut chart)	Total applicable Fixlets distributed across severity levels. Severities are grouped into five bands; see Severity bands used by the Fixlets by Severity chart for the full severity-to-band mapping. Note: The chart groups multiple severities into 5 core color slices due to UI color palette constraints. Select the Data Table icon on the widget to see exact, ungrouped counts for every severity level.	Fixlets (under Explore), filtered by the selected severity
Top 5 High-Risk Devices (bar chart)	Lists the top 5 devices with the maximum number of Critical, High, or Mandatory severity patches applicable but not yet deployed. The x-axis shows the device names, and the y-axis shows the count of applicable Fixlets.	Device details page for the selected device, opened on the Relevant Fixlets tab.
Top 5 High-Impact Fixlets (bar chart)	Lists the top 5 patches with the maximum number of applicable devices. Defaults to Critical, High, and Mandatory severities, adjustable using the dashboard filters. Bars are colored by severity.	Fixlet details page for the selected Fixlet.
Fixlet Aging (bar chart)	Groups unapplied patches into age buckets: <30, 30-59, 60-89, and 90+ days. Age is calculated from the day the patch was released by the OEM, not from the date the Fixlet became relevant on a device.	Fixlets (under Explore), filtered by the selected age range.

Select the Data Table icon on the top-right of a widget to open a table listing the individual, ungrouped counts behind that widget. For steps, see Viewing and exporting dashboard data.

Severity bands used by the Fixlets by Severity chart

BigFix content uses several severity vocabularies. The donut chart merges them into 5 bands so that the chart stays readable.

Band	Severity values included
1	Critical, Mandatory, High
2	Important, Recommended
3	Moderate, Medium
4	Low, Optional, Negligible
5	Unspecified, N/A, and empty values

Note: Fixlets whose severity field is blank cannot be selected in the dashboard filter and might not appear in the chart. This is a limitation of the underlying data.