[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix 10.0 Patch 2 is now available!

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

The BigFix Team is pleased to announce the release of version 10 Patch 2 (10.0.2.52) of BigFix Platform.
The main features in this release are as follows:

Install BigFix Agent on AWS or Azure VMs by using cloud APIs
You can now install BigFix Agent in AWS and Azure environments by leveraging the cloud provider services and APIs. With this enhancement, you can speed up the deployment of agents without the need for deploying and configuring the Client Deploy Tool (CDT), and providing OS access credentials for target cloud instances

For details, see:  Installing the BigFix Agent on cloud-native resources<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_install_oncloud.html>

Improved performance and resilience via guided tuning of the MS-SQL configuration
The installer now checks for and optionally adjusts suboptimal configuration in terms of DoP (Degree of Parallelism) and CTFP (Cost Threshold for Parallelism) of a SQL Server instance. In case of configuration issues that cannot be solved automatically, you are provided with enough background and guidance.

For details, see:  SQL Server parallelism optimization<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_sql_server_parallelism_opt.html>

Leverage Docker images for root server DB in Windows
You can now leverage official Ubuntu-based images of MS SQL Server for Docker as a remote database for the Windows BigFix root Server. Platform 10.0.2 officially certifies the MS SQL Server 2017 and MS SQL Server 2019 Docker containers.

For details, see: Detailed system requirements<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_spcr_platform.html>

Improved PeerNest behavior in case of large payloads
Starting with this release, you can elect peers to download files based on the peer cache size too - only specific clients will download large files directly from the Relay. This prevents clients not having enough cache from initiating downloads which in turns helps increase efficiency and reduce overall distribution time.

For details, see: Working with PeerNest<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_P2P.html>

Accelerate responses by allowing clients to use additional CPU in download phase
You can now speed up the operations to evaluate the hash (sha1/sha256) code of downloaded files by temporarily directing the BigFix Client to use additional CPU. This results in a consistent time optimization for the download phase since the time required for the hash evaluation decreases as the engaged CPU increases.

For details, see: Configuring Client CPU Utilization<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_client_cpu.html>

Other Enhancements


  *   Added support for:

  *   BigFix Server for RHEL 8 x86_64
  *   BigFix Relay for Raspbian 10 on Raspberry Pi 4
  *   BigFix Agent for Mac OS 11 x86_64
  *   BigFix Agent for Debian 10 x86_64
  *   BigFix Agent for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ppc64le on p8
  *   DB2 Standard Edition 11.5.4
  *   SQL Server 2019
  *   SQL Server 2017 and 2019 deployed in a Docker container

  *   Upgraded libcurl to version 7.73.0
  *   Fixed DAs and defects. For details, see the technical specification section below.

Additional information about this release


  *   After applying this Platform patch, when a new WebUI update is published, in deployments where WebUI is configured not to auto-update, the WebUI service will no longer be automatically restarted.
  *   The unixODBC RPM package is a prerequisite for the Server components on Linux systems (see Server Requirements<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_tivoli_endpoint_manager_server.html>). This applies to version 10.0.2 and later.
  *   The standalone BigFix tools are published under the 10.0 Utilities section in BigFix Enterprise Suite Download Center<http://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/>.

References


  *   See the full technical changelist<https://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/fullchangelist-100.txt>.

Pre-Upgrade Considerations


  *   This release includes all the BigFix Platform components. It also includes the Plugin Portal that enables the Multicloud and Modern Client Management capabilities.
  *   The unixODBC RPM package is a prerequisite for the Server components on Linux systems (see Server Requirements<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_tivoli_endpoint_manager_server.html>). This applies to version 10.0.2 and later.
  *   Upgrade paths to BigFix 10 begin with v9.5.10 or later. For details, see Upgrade paths<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrade_paths.html> (Windows) and Upgrade paths<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrade_paths_linux.html> (Linux).
  *   For detailed information on the specific changes to minimum supported versions of operating systems and databases for BigFix 10, see Detailed system requirements<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_spcr_platform.html>.
  *   BEFORE getting started with the upgrade process, stop any active application that is connected to the BigFix database (such as Web Reports, WebUI, BigFix Inventory, or BigFix Compliance).

Useful links


  *   BigFix downloads and release information<https://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/10.0/patch2/>
  *   BigFix 10 documentation
     *   Home page<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/index.html>
     *   Upgrade considerations
        *   Windows<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1.html>
        *   Linux<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1_linux.html>
     *   Detailed system requirements<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_spcr_platform.html>

Upgrade Fixlets are available in BES Support version 1445 (or later).

Discuss this on the forum<https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-10-0-patch-2-is-now-available/36763>

- The BigFix Platform Team


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