Welcome
BigFix UI User's Guide
Read this guide for an introduction to the BigFix UI tools, concepts, and terminology.
Using BigFix UI
This guide is for regular users of the BigFix UI.
Administration
The Administration section helps you manage users and access control in BigFix UI.
Identity management
The Identity management app in BigFix UI is the central place to manage global settings for all applications running within BigFix UI. From here, administrators manage users, roles, account policies, and identity provider configuration.
User & Role Management
The User & Role Management area of Identity management provides administrators with a centralized interface to manage user accounts, roles, permissions, and activities. This section walks you through the process of creating new users, disabling or deleting existing users, setting passwords, managing roles, and more.
Editing user profile
Administrators can edit user details, such as login name, email, and full name, and reset passwords directly from the user details page in User & Role Management.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
BigFix 11 Platform Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Platform documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use BigFix.
Detailed system requirements
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Platform guides in PDF format
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Platform user guides in PDF format:
Common Criteria Certification
Getting Started
Use this section to become familiar with BigFix infrastructure and key concepts necessary to understand how it works.
HTTPS across BigFix applications
This topic describes how the SSL/HTTPS communication works in BigFix applications and links the tasks on how to configure it.
Installation Guide
Learn the system requirements, licensing and installation instructions, and how to configure and maintain BigFix.
Configuration Guide
Learn how to configure BigFix according to your needs.
Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
Asset Discovery User's Guide
Learn how BigFix Asset Discovery works.
Web Reports Guide
Learn how the Web Reports feature extends the power of BigFix.
BigFix Explorer Guide
Learn how the BigFix Explorer feature extends the power of BigFix.
BigFix MCP Server Guide
Learn how the BigFix Platform MCP Server extends the capabilities of BigFix by allowing compatible AI clients to use BigFix functionalities through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
WebUI User's Guide
Read this guide for an introduction to the WebUI tools, concepts, and terminology.
WebUI Administration Guide
Read this guide for information about installing and administering the WebUI.
BigFix UI User's Guide
Read this guide for an introduction to the BigFix UI tools, concepts, and terminology.
- Introduction
  BigFix UI is a unified interface that consolidates multiple BigFix capabilities into one modern application. It provides IT operations and security teams with a centralized workspace to manage endpoints, remediate vulnerabilities, and generate reports.
- Getting Started
  The Getting Started section introduces key features that help users begin working with the BigFix UI. It provides a foundation for understanding how to access the system securely, navigate common features, and apply guided recommendations to improve efficiency and compliance.
- Using BigFix UI
  This guide is for regular users of the BigFix UI.
  - Home
    The customizable dashboard is the home page of the BigFix UI. It shows the applications and reports that you use most as a grid of widgets that you can add, remove, and reorder to match your workflow.
  - Explore
    The Explore section provides a centralized view of core BigFix resources. It helps administrators and operators quickly access devices, fixlets, deployments, sites, and analyses for monitoring and action.
  - Resolve
    The Resolve section provides tools to act on issues and apply remediations across your environment.
  - Reporting
    The Reporting section provides tools to create, view, and manage reports for analysis and decision-making.
  - Administration
    The Administration section helps you manage users and access control in BigFix UI.
    - Application Configuration
      The Application Configuration page is a central administrative hub for the modular applications and integrations that BigFix UI hosts. It lists each application as a card and shows whether the application is configured, so that you can open the configuration page that the application team owns.
    - Identity management
      The Identity management app in BigFix UI is the central place to manage global settings for all applications running within BigFix UI. From here, administrators manage users, roles, account policies, and identity provider configuration.
      - User & Role Management
        The User & Role Management area of Identity management provides administrators with a centralized interface to manage user accounts, roles, permissions, and activities. This section walks you through the process of creating new users, disabling or deleting existing users, setting passwords, managing roles, and more.
        Creating a new user
        Use the Create user wizard in User & Role Management to add new users in BigFix UI. You define how users authenticate, bind them to a BigFix operator, assign their roles, and review the applications they can access.
        Editing user profile
        Administrators can edit user details, such as login name, email, and full name, and reset passwords directly from the user details page in User & Role Management.
        Managing roles
        Create, edit, and manage user roles with customizable access to applications, devices, sites, and permissions in the BigFix UI environment. You can customize each role by specifying app-level permissions, ensuring users have secure and appropriate access based on their responsibilities.
        Permissions reference
        Permissions define the operational actions that a role or a user can perform within the platform. The same set of permissions appears on the Permissions step of the Create Role and Edit role wizards, on the Permissions tab of the role details page, and in the Permissions section of the user details page.
      - Admin user and account policy
        The Admin user and account policy area of Identity management lets the instance admin create the primary site administrator and define the account security policies that govern how all users authenticate and maintain their sessions in BigFix UI.
      - OIDC Configuration
        OIDC Configuration lets the instance admin connect BigFix UI to an external identity provider by using the OpenID Connect (OIDC) protocol, so that users can log in with single sign-on (SSO) using their existing organizational credentials.
    - System configuration
      Use System configuration to manage the global settings that every application in BigFix UI shares. In this release, System configuration contains the SMTP settings that BigFix UI uses to send email.
- Support
  For more information about this product, see the following resources:
BigFix UI Administration Guide
Read this guide for information about installing and administering the BigFix UI
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the BigFix software and products.

Editing user profile

Administrators can edit user details, such as login name, email, and full name, and reset passwords directly from the user details page in User & Role Management.

Note: You must be logged in as an administrator.

Edit User Details

Follow these steps to modify a user's basic profile information:

Log in to BigFix UI with your credentials.
Expand Administration, select Identity Management, and then select the User & Role Management card.
On the Users tab, click the login name of the user you want to edit.
On the user details page, click the Edit user profile (pencil) icon in the top right corner.
Note: To change only the full name, you can also click the pencil icon next to Full Name in the User Details card.
In the Edit user profile panel, update the following fields as needed:
- Login name: Enter a name using at least 8 to 15 alphanumeric characters. Do not include special characters such as ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) + = { } [ ] | ; : ' " < > , . ? /.
- User email: Enter the user's email address.
- First name: Enter the user's first name.
- Last name: Enter the user's last name.
Click Save. The user's profile information is updated immediately.

Reset a User Password

Follow these steps to manually reset a local user's password:

Expand Administration, select Identity Management, and then select the User & Role Management card.
On the Users tab, click the login name of the user whose password you need to reset.
On the user details page, click the Reset password icon in the top right corner.
In the Reset password panel, enter a new password in the Password field.
The panel lists the password security requirements. Each requirement is marked as met while you type. Ensure the new password meets the following criteria:
- Contains 15 characters or more
- Contains at least 1 lowercase letter
- Contains at least 1 uppercase letter
- Contains at least 1 number
- Contains at least 1 special character
Re-enter the password in the Confirm Password field.
Click Reset. The Reset button is enabled only after the password meets all security requirements and both entries match. The user's password is changed. The user must use the new password upon their next login.