Welcome
Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
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.
BigFix Patch for Solaris
Use the Fixlets on the various Solaris sites to apply Oracle patches and updates to your deployment.
Network File System Support
The Network File System (NFS) is a mechanism for storing files on a network. It is a distributed file system that allows users to access files and directories that are on remote computers and treat those files and directories as if they were local.

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.
Platform
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.
  - Special notice
  - Edition notice
  - Overview
    BigFix Patch for Solaris provides unified, real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Solaris endpoints from a single console. It keeps your Solaris clients current with the latest Oracle updates.
  - Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard overview
    Use the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard to oversee and manage download plug-ins in your deployment.
  - BigFix Patch for Solaris
    Use the Fixlets on the various Solaris sites to apply Oracle patches and updates to your deployment.
    - Mirror management
      BigFix provides tasks to help with the failback options for your mirror management solution. These tasks are available only for Solaris 10 endpoints.
    - Network File System Support
      The Network File System (NFS) is a mechanism for storing files on a network. It is a distributed file system that allows users to access files and directories that are on remote computers and treat those files and directories as if they were local.
    - Using the Solaris download cacher
      Use the Solaris download cacher utility to pre-cache Solaris updates to the BigFix server or to a specified target directory before deploying the Fixlets to targeted endpoints.
    - Patching using Fixlets
      You can apply Solaris patches to your deployment by using the Fixlets on the available Solaris sites.
    - Local repositories
      BigFix provides a method for using local repositories to store patch updates for Solaris 11.
    - Single-user mode patch application
      You must bring computers into single-user mode to prepare them for kernel-level or cluster-level patching.
    - Creating a baseline for single-user mode
      Create a baseline to modify a Solaris patch Fixlet for single-user mode.
    - Deploying Solaris packages
      You can control which packages to deploy to Solaris computers that have the BigFix client installed.
    - Retrieving installed package information
      You can retrieve a list of all installed packages on Solaris 10 and 11 endpoints by activating analyses on the BigFix console.
    - Retrieving the endpoint upgrade list
      You can retrieve a list of the Solaris 10 and 11 endpoints that contain packages with available updates by activating analyses on the BigFix console.
    - Uninstalling patches
      You can uninstall Solaris patches from Solaris 9 and 10 computers by using the Solaris Patch Rollback Wizard.
    - Superseded Fixlets
      Superseded Fixlets are Fixlets that contain outdated patch packages. If a Fixlet is superseded, a newer Fixlet exists with newer versions of the packages.
    - Enabling superseded Fixlets
      You can install an earlier version of a Solaris patch by enabling superseded Fixlets.
  - Solaris zone patching
    Patch Management for Solaris supports zone patching on Solaris 10 endpoints.
  - Solaris Live Upgrade support
    Use the Solaris Live Upgrade tool to manage system downtime and risk when installing patches on alternate boot environments on Solaris 9 and 10 computers.
  - Support
    For more information about this product, see the following resources:
  - Frequently asked questions
    To better understand BigFix Patch for Solaris, read the following questions and answers.
  - Notices
- 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.
- 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:

Network File System Support

The Network File System (NFS) is a mechanism for storing files on a network. It is a distributed file system that allows users to access files and directories that are on remote computers and treat those files and directories as if they were local.

All the Fixlets for Critical Patch Update (CPU) and the Recommended Patch Cluster, which are on the Patches for Solaris site and Patches for Solaris Live Upgrade site, provide an option to install the packages from an accessible NFS share instead of from the Oracle repository or a local repository. Because these patches can be large, downloading and extracting them directly to the endpoint can take some time. Deploying patches from an NFS share shortens the installation time, decreases bandwidth usage, and reduces storage costs. For information about deploying patches, see Patching endpoints on Solaris 10 and earlier.

You can use the following tasks on the Patching Support site to run basic NFS configuration:

Enable NFS Support - Solaris 10: Use this task to enable NFS services on targeted Solaris systems.

Disable NFS Support - Solaris 10: Use this task to disable NFS services on targeted Solaris systems.

Add NFS Share - Solaris 10: Use this task to export a new directory to the NFS client to make the directory accessible to other systems across the network. You can specify an NFS repository location that contains the updates that you want to install. The task provides options to add a persistent or non-persistent NFS share with certain access levels.

Remove NFS Share - Solaris 10: Use this task to remove a directory from the NFS client to stop sharing the directory with other systems across the network. You can remove the NFS share only from the current session or include the subsequent sessions.

For more information about NFS, see http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1454/rfsintro-2.html.