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.
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.
BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides audit Fixlets for new patch bundle updates that VMware releases.
Provides a workflow to send patches to offline virtual machines.
Welcome to the BigFix Patch documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the BigFix Patch.
Learn how BigFix Patch offers an automated and streamlined patch management solution, simplifying the patching process that is administered from a single console.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the management extender, including the necessary prerequisite steps.
This section or menu option provides instructions for installing and configuring the VMware plugin, including the necessary prerequisite steps.
This section provides instructions on migrating from the Management Extender to the new VMware plugin for existing setups.
With this dashboard, an Offline Patch Window task is enforced on the offline virtual machines, which executes the scheduled power down of machines set by the previous dashboard.
Dashboard listing all the guest vms reported via management extender or VMware plugin.
A site specific relevance can be incorporated to ensure that only necessary virtual machines are reported.
BigFix Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager enables the management of cloud endpoints on GCP, AWS, and Azure.
Learn from these questions and answers that are designed to help you better understand VMware.
This topic describes how supersedence works in Patch.
The tables in this section provide detailed information about the system requirements for BigFix 11.
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the BigFix® Patch software and products.
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:
Please refer to Supersedence for Non-Windows to know more about the supersedence.
