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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 for Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide
Discover how BigFix Patch 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.
VMware
BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides audit Fixlets for new patch bundle updates that VMware releases.
Setup for management extender
This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the management extender, including the necessary prerequisite steps.

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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.
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 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 for Windows User's Guide
  Discover how 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
  Discover how BigFix 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 VIOS User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for VIOS provides an automated and simplified patching process specifically designed for IBM's AIX Virtual I/O Server (PowerVM VIOS) environments. It allows system administrators to manage and deploy patches efficiently across all PowerVM VIOS endpoints from a single console.
- Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
  Discover how 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
  Learn about BigFix® Patch for CentOS Linux™ that 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 Alma Linux User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch for Alma 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 Alma Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Amazon Linux User's Guide
  Discover how 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
  Discover how 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
  Discover how 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
  Discover how BigFix Patch 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
  Discover how 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
  Discover how BigFix 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
  Discover how BigFix® 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
  Discover how 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 Raspbian User's Guide
  Discover how 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
  Discover how 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
  Discover how 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 VMware ESXi User's Guide
  Discover how 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 Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide
  Discover how BigFix Patch 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.
  - Overview
    BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides audit Fixlets for new patch bundle updates that VMware releases.
  - VMware
    BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides audit Fixlets for new patch bundle updates that VMware releases.
    - Setup for management extender
      This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the management extender, including the necessary prerequisite steps.
      - Components
        VMware Plugin components are individual building blocks that collectively form the plugin's functionality.
      - Architecture
        The VMware architecture helps in understanding and managing virtualized environment.
      - Managing the workload balance
        Managing the workload balance describes how Patch for VMware ESXi is designed to work in big environments to optimize the workload balance.
      - Configuring the management extender
        Before you can begin working with the different Virtualization features, you must configure a relay server or a root server to communicate with a specific VMware vCenter or ESX host.
      - Working with multiple computer representations
        Managing multiple computer representations by creating custom filters or by using Roles and Operators.
      - Using Roles and Operators to manage computer representations
        You can also use Roles and Operators to manage computer representations in BigFix.
    - Setup for VMware plugin
      This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the VMware plugin, including the necessary prerequisite steps.
    - Migration from management extender to VMware plugin
      This section provides instructions on migrating from the Management Extender to the new VMware plugin for existing setups.
    - Offline Patching Workflow
      Provides a workflow to send patches to offline virtual machines.
    - Virtual Machine Guest Overview
      Dashboard listing all the guest vms reported via management extender or VMware plugin.
    - Specifying virtual device computers
      A site specific relevance can be incorporated to ensure that only necessary virtual machines are reported.
  - Extended cloud capability
    BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager enables the management of cloud endpoints on GCP, AWS, and Azure.
  - Troubleshooting
  - Frequently asked questions
    Learn from these questions and answers that are designed to help you better understand VMware.
  - List of actionscript commands
- Extended third-party Windows Application
- Supersedence for Non-Windows
  This topic describes how supersedence works in Patch.
Detailed system requirements
The tables in this section provide detailed information about the system requirements for BigFix 11.
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the BigFix® Patch software and products.
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:

Setup for management extender

This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the management extender, including the necessary prerequisite steps.

Warning: The Management Extender will no longer be available for new installations or upgrades. Existing users may continue using it until it is fully deprecated in the near future.

Note: The BigFix team is actively working to expand the scope of utilizing the new Plugin across a broader range of BigFix platform versions. Once this expansion is achieved, the existing VMWare VCenter Management Extender will be deprecated. For the new setup details regarding the new VMware Plugin, please refer to the Setup for VMware plugin.