[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Lifecycle Server Automation V9.2 Application Update 4.4 is now available

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

Site Version 58 - December 2015

IBM BigFix Lifecycle Server Automation 9.2 - Application Update SA 4.4


The Server Automation team is pleased to announce that SA Application
Update 4.4 is now available.


New features


You can now get email notifications to notify you on the execution status
of your Automation Plans.


Along with several quality enhancements, this release also delivers the
ability send email notifications on the execution status of your Automation
Plans, a new Advanced patching site with advanced patching content,
expanded cluster patching support to include patching WebSphere®
Application Server cluster (middleware or OS), and enhancements to the
Microsoft Exchange cluster patching solution.


Major new features and enhancements


Email notification


You can configure Server Automation to send notification emails on the
execution status of your automation plans.


A new Notification Service will be published with an imminent refresh of
BigFix Web Console. When published, this Server Automation update will
integrate with the new service.


Advanced patching


New advanced patching content is available in a new BigFix Lifecycle site
called Advanced Patching. See separate announcement concerning this. For
this release, this site contains advanced patching content for Fix Packs
and interim fixes (iFix) for WebSphere Application Server versions 8.0,
8.5, and 8.5.5. To access this content, you must subscribe to the Advanced
Patching site under BigFix Lifecycle.


The Server Automation cluster patching solutions on Microsoft Windows have
been expanded to enable automated patching of WebSphere Application Server
clusters (middleware and OS) for WebSphere Application Server versions 8.0,
8.5, and 8.5.5.


There are further enhancements to the Microsoft Exchange cluster patching
solution to ensure that services are running after patching. If you have a
File Share Witness configured, you can check if the File Share Witness is
accessible from the target computers during the patching process.


You can automate patching of standalone nodes of WebSphere Application
Server versions 8.0, 8.5, and 8.5.5.


Prefetching only relevant content


If you schedule a plan and choose the prefetching option, only the steps
that are relevant at the time of submission of the plan are downloaded.
This helps minimize network traffic by downloading only the content that is
relevant and required to execute the plan steps.


Sample plans


Several new sample plans have been added to help you get up and running
quickly with new content.


Quality Improvements and Enhancements.


The Take Automation Plan Action screen has been improved and streamlined.


In addition, Several defects have been fixed and quality enhancements have
been included in this release.


The Knowledge Center has been updated to reflect these changes.


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