Deployments

Monitor and manage deployments across your environment from the Deployment Manager page - view deployment status, filter and search the list, and stop or delete existing deployments.

The Deployment Manager in BigFix UI provides a centralized view to monitor and manage deployments. It enables you to view deployment status, stop or delete existing deployments, and review configuration and device-level details for each deployment.

The Deployment Manager displays all deployments associated with your environment in a table view. Each deployment represents an action initiated on one or more devices. These actions are called deployments. The complexity of a deployment can vary significantly. Some deployments complete in minutes, while others take days to run successfully on all targeted devices.

Viewing the Deployment Manager

To access the Deployment Manager app, expand Explore from the side navigation, and select Deployments.

This page displays a table of all deployments executed in your environment, including open, expired, or stopped ones. Each row represents a single deployment record. The page title shows an Updated line with the date and time the table data was last refreshed.

Data table columns:

Table 1. Deployment Manager - data table columns
Column	Description
Name	The deployment title or action name. Select the name to open its detailed page.
Tags	Tags applied to the deployment. Shows a tag value, a count link (for example, 2 tags) if more than one tag is applied, or No data if no tag is applied.
State	Shows the current status of the deployment - Open, Expired, and Stopped.
Issued	Time when the deployment was created, shown relative to now (for example, 1 day ago).
ID	Unique deployment identifier assigned by BigFix.
Start date	Scheduled start time of the deployment. Shows [ null ] if no start date is scheduled.
End date	Completion or expiration time of the deployment.
BigFix Operator	The operator account that initiated the deployment.
Issuer full name	User who created or owns the deployment.

The Deployment Manager also offers the following controls:

Table 2. Deployment Manager - toolbar and data table controls
Control	Description
Column	Customizes which columns the data table displays. For more details, see Columns.
Density	Adjusts the row height of the data table. For more details, see Density.
Filter icon	Opens the filter panel. Using the filter tool makes it possible to reduce the number of deployments displayed in the data table. For more details, see Filtering Data.
Export icon	Opens the Export panel. Select either CSV or Excel format, and then select Download to export and save the deployment data. For more details, see Exporting Data.
Column header sort	Sorts the data table using the values in that column. Move your cursor near the column header name and select it to sort; select again to reverse the sort order. For more details, see Sorting Data.
Count line	Shows the number of deployments selected in the data table out of the total associated with your account, in the form X of Y Deployments (for example, 0 of 375 Deployments). Selecting deployments is required for actions such as stopping or deleting them.
Stop	Stops the selected open deployments.
Delete	Deletes selected deployments from the data table so that they no longer display. You can delete only expired deployments. To delete an open deployment, you must first stop it.
Search box	Filters the deployments list by a keyword, such as a name or ID. The list updates automatically as you type.

Note: The Stop and Delete buttons are disabled by default and become selectable only after you choose at least one deployment in the data table. User permissions, as assigned by administrators, might restrict some users from stopping or deleting deployments.

Select the deployment name to drill down to the deployment details page, which has extensive details about that deployment's configuration and status.