Welcome
Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
Fixlets and Tasks
Monitoring Fixlets and Tasks
When a Fixlet or Task becomes relevant somewhere in your network, BigFix adds it to the list available under the Fixlets and Tasks icon in the Domain Panel navigation tree.

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
BigFix 10.0.1.41 complies with the requirements of the standard ISO/IEC 15408 (Common Criteria) v. 3.1 for the assurance level: EAL2
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.
- Accessing the console
  The console is the visible face of BigFix, used by the operator to monitor and repair networked computers running the BigFix client.
- Fixlets and Tasks
  - Introducing Fixlets and Tasks
    Fixlets and Tasks are central to BigFix.
  - Differences between Fixlets and tasks
    If you look at the details in the Fixlet and task definition on the BigFix console, you see the same entries. What makes the difference between the two are the scope and the default behavior.
  - Viewing Fixlets and Tasks
    How to display a Fixlet or a Task.
  - Monitoring Fixlets and Tasks
    When a Fixlet or Task becomes relevant somewhere in your network, BigFix adds it to the list available under the Fixlets and Tasks icon in the Domain Panel navigation tree.
  - Commenting on Fixlets and Tasks
    You can attach a comment to a Fixlet or Task that other operators can read.
  - Creating or Customizing Fixlets and Tasks
    How to create your own custom Fixlet or Task message from scratch.
  - Hiding Fixlets and Tasks
    You can hide a Fixlet or Task.
  - Viewing Relevance Expressions
    When a Fixlet message becomes relevant to some computer in your network, you might want to know exactly what triggered it, and what action is suggested.
  - Introducing Relevance
    To quickly and non-invasively inspect various aspects of a computer, the Relevance Language was created.
- Actions
  Actions are scripts that run on selected targets. They are used to fix policy violation and security exposures and to run configuration steps. Fixlet, tasks, and baselines depend on actions to run their remediation mission.
- Sites
- Domains
- Roles
- Client Computers
- Computer Groups
- Analyses
- Baselines
- Relays and Servers
- Activating the license counting process
  How to activate the license counting process.
- Displays and Reports
- Menus
- The Dialogs
- Disabling local operators on BigFix Console
  Starting from BigFix Version 10.0.8, you can decide to disable the local operators from logging into the BigFix Console, to use LDAP operators instead.
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.
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.
Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the Modern Client Management for BigFix software and products.

Monitoring Fixlets and Tasks

When a Fixlet or Task becomes relevant somewhere in your network, BigFix adds it to the list available under the Fixlets and Tasks icon in the Domain Panel navigation tree.

You can filter this list by opening the icon and clicking the subcategories underneath. Each icon represents data groupings that you can use to narrow down the items in the List Panel on the right. Then, in the listing area itself, you can sort the items by clicking a column heading.

The list headers include the following information:

Name: The name assigned to the Fixlet message by the author.
ID: A numerical ID assigned to the Fixlet message by the author.
Source Severity: A measure of how serious a Fixlet message is, assigned by the Fixlet author. Typical values are Critical, Important, Moderate, or Low.
Site: The name of the site that is generating the relevant Fixlet message.
Applicable Computer Count: The number of BigFix Clients in the network currently affected by the Fixlet message.
Open Action Count: Number of distinct actions open for the given Fixlet message.
Category: The type of Fixlet message, such as a security patch or update.
Unlocked Computer Count: The number of unlocked computers affected by the Fixlet.
Download Size: The size of the remedial file or patch that the action downloads.
Source: The name of the source company that provided the Fixlet information.
Source ID: An identification number assigned to the Fixlet to relate it back to its source.
Source Release Date: The date this Fixlet message was released.

For example, you might filter the Fixlet list by opening the Source Severity folder and selecting Important to filter out less urgent Fixlet messages.

This window displays the domain panel showing the Applicable computer count and description tab highlighted on the right hand side of the panel. On the left hand side of the panel it shows a list of fixlets and tasks that are sorted by source severity.

Then you could sort the Fixlet messages by Applicable Computer Count (which shows the number of affected computers) to find which Fixlet messages are relevant to the greatest number of computers. If you do not see one of the columns listed above, right-click in the Fixlet header and select it from the pop-up menu.