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BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
Updates for Middleware Applications
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.
Updates for Windows applications - middleware
With Updates for Windows applications - middleware content site, customer can deploy updates to a vast number of third-party middleware applications.

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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.
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Patch Overview
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
- Patch for Windows User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for AIX User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for CentOS Linux User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for Amazon Linux User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for Ubuntu User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for Oracle Linux User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for Solaris User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for HP-UX User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for Mac OS X User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for Debian User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for VMware ESXi User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for VMware ESXi provides you unified, near real-time visibility to manage patches to all VMware ESXi endpoints from a single console.
- Patch for Raspbian User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for Rocky Linux User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for Open SUSE Leap 15 User's Guide
  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.
- Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide
  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.
- Updates for Middleware Applications
  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.
  - Special notice
  - Edition notice
  - Updates for Linux applications - middleware
    With Updates for Linux applications - middleware content site, customer can deploy updates to a vast number of third-party middleware applications.
  - Updates for Windows applications - middleware
    With Updates for Windows applications - middleware content site, customer can deploy updates to a vast number of third-party middleware applications.
    - Supported applications
      Find a list of supported applications for Windows middleware applications.
    - Site Subscription - Enabling updates for Windows middleware applications
      You can enable updates for Windows middleware applications from BigFix console.
    - Gathering updates for Windows middleware applications
      Use updates from the Windows middleware applications content site to submit a gather request to the BigFix server.
    - Viewing updates for Windows middleware applications
      You can view all the content on the site after the site is gathered. Use Show Non-Relevant Content to view all available content. The display shows both relevant and non-relevant content.
    - Updates for Windows middleware applications in the WebUI
      You can view content on the Updates for Windows Application - middleware WebUI.
  - Manual caching
    Manual caching refers to manually storing and managing data in a cache. Users can put patch files into a folder structure or just manually cache the files.
  - Oracle Weblogic
    Oracle WebLogic Server is a unified and extensible platform for developing, deploying, and running enterprise applications. Oracle WebLogic Server is a software application that runs on a middleware tier, between back-end databases and related applications and browser-based thin clients.
  - Oracle Database
    An Oracle Database (DB) is a collection of data treated as a unit. A database stores and retrieves related information. Oracle Database is widely used and known for its reliability, scalability, and extensive features.
  - Support
    For more information about this product, see the following resources:
  - Notices
- Supersedence for Non-Windows
  This topic describes how supersedence works in Patch.
ESU Patch Add-Ons User's Guide
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.
RHEL Patch Add-Ons User's Guide
Detailed system requirements
The tables in this section provide detailed information about the system requirements for BigFix 11.
Patch guides in PDF format
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Patch user guides in PDF format:

Updates for Windows applications - middleware

With Updates for Windows applications - middleware content site, customer can deploy updates to a vast number of third-party middleware applications.

Note: Support for N, N-1, and N-2 versions are available for Middleware Patch update fixlets.

Prerequisite of Oracle weblogic

Before running the Fixlet, make sure that these prerequisites are met on the windows system:

Make sure that the archive extraction software is installed on the Windows system before proceeding with the installation of Oracle software.
Note: Ensure the LongPathsEnabled registry key is enabled in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem of registry".
Ensure you have the recommended version of JDK for Oracle WebLogic 14C installed during installation and for patching Oracle WebLogic 12C.

Steps to manage Oracle weblogic on Window system

These steps involve locating specific configuration files, extracting information from them, and filtering based on certain criteria:

Locate the Oracle Inventory directory typically at any folder location, for example, C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory.
Use the obtained inventory location to access the inventory.xml file in the ContentsXML directory.
Extract information from inventory.xml to locate specific files, such as registry.xml, in the inventory directory.
Within registry.xml files, filter based on certain criteria:
1. Nodes with a specific version (e.g., 12.2.1.4.0) at certain XPath locations (e.g., /a:registry/a:distributions/a:distribution[@status='installed']).
2. Nodes with names containing "WebLogic".

Steps to manage RedHat JBoss on Window system

These steps involve locating specific configuration files, extracting information from them, and filtering based on certain criteria:

Search for version.txt in the installed folders named eap or jboss. For example, within subdirectories of C:\Users.
Search in folders named eap or jboss within the installed folder. For example, C:\Program Files.

Prerequisite of Apache Tomcat

Before running the Fixlet, make sure that these prerequisites are met on the Window system:

For Windows, you should have the latest JDK installed, and its path must be set in the environment variables under "JAVA_HOME".

Steps to manage Apache Tomcat on Windows

This step involves locating specific configuration files, extracting information from them, and filtering based on certain criteria:

You will find the software details in Windows Registry Service.

Steps to manage MariaDB on Windows (Registry)

This step involves locating specific configuration files, extracting information from them, and filtering based on certain criteria:

You will find the software details in Windows Registry Service.

Steps to manage MongoDB on Windows (Registry)

This step involves locating specific configuration files, extracting information from them, and filtering based on certain criteria:

You will find the software details in Windows Registry Service.

Steps to manage Postgresql on Windows (Registry)

This step involves locating specific configuration files, extracting information from them, and filtering based on certain criteria:

You will find the software details in Windows Registry Service.

Steps to manage IBM MQ on Windows

This step involves locating specific configuration files, extracting information from them, and filtering based on certain criteria:

For Windows systems, check the installed version of IBM MQ under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall.

Steps to manage IBM WebSphere on Windows

This step involves locating specific configuration files, extracting information from them, and filtering based on certain criteria:

For Windows systems, it searches within Windows folders for files named .was.installlocations.registry. Specifically, it looks for properties\version\installed.xml files, particularly those ending with appserver.

Steps to manage MySQL on Windows

This step involves locating specific configuration files, extracting information from them, and filtering based on certain criteria:

You will find the software details in Windows Registry Service.

Pre-caching required for Windows applications

Table 1. Software pre-caching required
Software name	Pre-caching required (Yes/No)
Oracle WebLogic	Yes, needs manual caching.
RedHat JBoss	Yes, needs manual caching.
Apache Tomcat	No, files automatically cached to server by fixlets.
MariaDB	No, files automatically cached to server by fixlets.
MongoDB	No, files automatically cached to server by fixlets.
Postgresql	No, files automatically cached to server by fixlets.
IBM MQ	Yes, needs manual caching.
IBM WebSphere	Yes, needs manual caching.
MySQL	No, files automatically cached to server by fixlets.