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WebUI User's Guide
Read this guide for an introduction to the WebUI tools, concepts, and terminology.
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.
The Device List
View a list of BigFix managed devices, create customized device reports, and review the detailed information about each device to effectively and proactively monitor the health and activity of endpoints.

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.
  - The Device List
    View a list of BigFix managed devices, create customized device reports, and review the detailed information about each device to effectively and proactively monitor the health and activity of endpoints.
  - Device Document
    Click a device name to get the information related to that device including its properties, status, relevant content, deployment status, history, and much more. Drill further into device details by using the associated views.
  - Send a File
    You can upload, list, delete your files and send a file to multiple devices from your file system.
  - Send Messages to Devices
    Using Send Messages feature, you can send a short message notification to multiple selected devices. You can determine if the message is read by the end user and also configure to automatically delete messages from the target devices after a specified number of days.
- Get Started with Patch
- Get Started with Patch Policy
- 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

The Device List

View a list of BigFix managed devices, create customized device reports, and review the detailed information about each device to effectively and proactively monitor the health and activity of endpoints.

Image of the Device list.

Operator permission settings, device, and site assignments govern list contents.
See a list of devices eligible for software in your catalog using the Relevant Devices with applicable software filter.
BigFix Lock – A machine with a BigFix lock on it does not run BigFix actions until it is unlocked.
See a list of devices used by a specific person with the Most Recent User filter. If a device has one user account, the device holder is listed. If a device has multiple user accounts the last person to log on is listed.

Note: To improve performance, property values are truncated to the first 5000 characters.

If Inline Reporting feature is enabled, you can visualize summary report of the real-time data and export the data to .csv or .xlsx files. For more information, see The Device List in BigFix 10 Help Center.

Note: Inline Reporting feature is not extensively tested in WebUI running on versions earlier than BigFix 10 Platform.

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