Welcome
Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
Patch for Mac OS X User's Guide
BigFix® for 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.
Patching using Fixlets
You can select the action for the appropriate Fixlets that you want to deploy from the BigFix console. Patches are applied based on the settings that you make in the Fixlet work area and the Take Action dialog.
Fixlet Maker dashboard overview
The Fixlet Maker dashboard provides an interface where you can create application update Fixlets by using templates.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
BigFix V9.5 Patch Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Patch documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the BigFix Patch.
Platform
Patch Overview
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
- Patch for Windows User's Guide
  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
  BigFix® for 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
  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
  BigFix® Patch for CentOS 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 CentOs endpoints.
- Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise User's Guide
  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
  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
  BigFix® Patches 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
  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
  BigFix® for 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
  BigFix® for 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.
  - Special notice
  - Edition notice
  - Overview
    BigFix Patch for Mac provides unified, real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Mac endpoints from a single console. It keeps your Mac clients current with the latest Apple security updates and service packs for your OS X and applications.
  - Patching using Fixlets
    You can select the action for the appropriate Fixlets that you want to deploy from the BigFix console. Patches are applied based on the settings that you make in the Fixlet work area and the Take Action dialog.
    - Viewing patch information with the Patches for Mac Overview dashboard
      View the breakdown of security and non-security Mac patches that are needed in your deployment. The Patches for Mac Overview dashboard displays a summary of patch information for Mac computers in your deployment using tables, graphs, and pie charts.
    - Deploying software applications
      BigFix® for Patch Management provides the Mac Software Deployment Wizard to assist you in deploying software applications to Mac OS X computers.
    - Fixlet Maker dashboard overview
      The Fixlet Maker dashboard provides an interface where you can create application update Fixlets by using templates.
    - Creating custom Fixlets from templates
      You can use the Fixlet Maker dashboard to create your own Fixlets for Mac OS applications that are not supported by the Patch Management for Mac and Patching Support sites.
    - Supersedence
  - Support
    Various resources are available for support of the product, including the Knowledge Center, BigFix Support Center, BigFix Support Portal, BigFix Developer, BigFix Wiki, and HCL BigFix Forum.
  - Frequently asked questions
    The questions and answers in this section can help you to better understand Patch Management for Mac OS X and Mac applications.
  - Notices
- Patch for Debian User's Guide
  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 VMware ESXi User's Guide
  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 Raspbian User's Guide
  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.
- Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide
Patch guides in PDF format
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Patch user guides in PDF format:

Fixlet Maker dashboard overview

The Fixlet Maker dashboard provides an interface where you can create application update Fixlets by using templates.

The dashboard currently supports templates for the following applications in Mac OS X computers:

Google Chrome (Enterprise Edition)
Mozilla Firefox
Skype

Audit Fixlets for these applications are available to inform you when a new version of the application becomes available.

Note: You can create your own template to generate Fixlets in the Fixlet Maker dashboard. For more information, see the BigFix wiki and search for "creating a Fixlet template".

You must subscribe to the Patching Support site to gain access to the Fixlet Maker dashboard. To access the dashboard from the Patch Management domain, click All Patch Management > Dashboards > Fixlet Maker.

Fixlet Maker wizard from the navigation tree — Figure 1. Fixlet Maker dashboard from the navigation tree

The dashboard displays all the previously created Fixlets for each template.

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