[BESAdmin-Announcements] Pre-Announcement: BigFix Patch is releasing a new download plug-in for SUSE

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

BigFix Patch is pleased to pre-announce the release of an enhanced 
download plug-in for SUSE. This new download plug-in uses the SUSE 
Customer Center (SCC) to download and cache patches from a vendor’s 
website to the BigFix server. It is designed to extract package data 
directly from the vendor, which can help improve the accuracy of package 
dependency resolution and repository support.

The SCC download plug-in will be available in the Manage Download Plug-ins 
dashboard as a new plug-in entry called SCC Plug-in. 

All patch Fixlets are updated to use the SCC Plug-in. The SUSE Plug-in 
will still be available to allow customers to use the Fixlets that are in 
custom sites. However, the SUSE Plug-in will no longer be supported for 
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (x86 and 
x86-64) when the SCC Plug-in is released.

Actions that you need to take BEFORE the release: 
* Review your baselines. Ensure that the best practices for baselines 
listed at https://ibm.biz/Bdsc8D are followed.

Actions that you need to take AFTER the release: 
* Register the SCC download plug-in on the BigFix server.
* Use the Baseline Synchronization Dashboard to update existing baselines 
and custom sites with the latest content from the external Fixlet sites. 
For details on how to sync your baseline components with the external 
sites, see https://ibm.biz/Bdsc8d.


Application Engineering team
IBM BigFix



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