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WebUI User's Guide
Read this guide for an introduction to the WebUI tools, concepts, and terminology.
Get Started with Patch Policy
Monitoring Deployed Policies

WebUI User's Guide
Read this guide for an introduction to the WebUI tools, concepts, and terminology.
- Welcome
- Meet the WebUI
  Take a quick tour of the WebUI screens, controls, and workflow.
- Get Started with Devices
  Use the Device screens to view and manage all the devices in your environment as determined by your permission levels. You can find specific devices, access device documents, select devices for deployment, generate and export device reports and do much more.
- Get Started with Patch
- Get Started with Patch Policy
  - Patch Policy Overview
    To open the Patch Policy application, from the WebUI Apps menu, select Patch Policy.
  - The Patch Policy List
  - Create a Patch Policy
    In this page, steps for creating a patch policy, selecting patches to include, setting deployment options, and designating targets are provided in detail.
  - Patch Policy Document
    Use the Patch Policy Document to view and manage policy settings. Policy information appears on the right.
  - Monitoring Deployed Policies
  - Patch Policy Operations: Task Reference
    The Patch Policy operations are summarized in this page. If you suspend an Active policy to make changes, re-activate it when you are done to resume patching.
- Get Started with Software
- Get Started with Custom Content
- Get Started with BigFix Query
  Use the BigFix Query feature to retrieve data from endpoints through a dedicated query channel, where the memory available on each Relay minimizes the impact to normal BigFix processing.
- Take Action: The Deploy Sequence
- Get Started with Deployments
- Get Started with the Content App
  Use the Content App to work with Fixlets, tasks, and baselines on the BigFix sites. Search, filter, and deploy content using standard WebUI tools.
- Support

Monitoring Deployed Policies

Monitoring Results

Use the WebUI’s Deployment views to monitor policy-based patching activity.

Working with Multiple Action Groups

A policy is a package of Fixlets and schedules. At the time indicated by the schedule, all patches meeting policy criteria are collected to create a BigFix Multiple Action Group (MAG). If a patch is not relevant on a particular device, no individual action will be taken.

A single policy may contain hundreds of patches, and its MAG may contain hundreds of components. To improve performance, when the number of patches in a policy exceeds 200 it is divided into Multiple Action Groups.

Default behavior of a Multiple Action Group (MAG)

Staggers deployment start time over the course of an hour to reduce network load.
Retries three times with a one hour interval on each try.
Uses default action.
Expires in 2 days (48 hours).
The targeting method depends on the target type, whether it is: a) a static endpoint, b) a manual computer group, or c) an automatic computer group.