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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.
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.

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.

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.

Select a card, segment, column, bar, or list item to drill down into the filtered, detailed view of the corresponding screen.

Table 1. Drill-down targets
From	You land on
Latest relevant Fixlets card, Fixlets by Severity segment, Fixlet Aging column	Explore > Fixlets: Fixlet Explorer list view with a Custom filters chip applied.
Top 5 High-Impact Fixlets bar	Explore > Fixlets. From here you can select Fixlets and click Deploy.
High-Risk Devices card	Explore > Devices, filtered to the devices counted on the card.
Top 5 High-Risk Devices bar	Explore > Devices. The device details page for that device, on the Relevant Fixlets tab, where you can select Fixlets and deploy them to the device.
Deployment Backlog card	NA

Fixlet Explorer list view reached from the dashboard, with the Deploy button highlighted — Figure 1. Drilling down to the Fixlet Explorer list view

Figure 1. Drilling down to the Fixlet Explorer list view