[BESAdmin-Announcements] Fwd: BigFix Inventory: Content and Catalog 20240410 Update published 2024-04-24

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

BigFix Inventory Team is proud to announce the new version of BigFix
Inventory.

*Product:  *
BigFix Inventory Content and Catalog update 20240410

*Published site version:  *

BigFix Inventory v10 - version 181

* Features:  *

BigFix Inventory delivers increased value and demonstrates HCL’s commitment
towards HCL and IBM customers.

Key updates in HCL BigFix Inventory 20240410:

*1.* Catalog related changes

   - Capability to discover 600+ new software versions including but not
   limited to software manufacturers like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard,
   McAfee, Microsoft, Oracle, Veritas and VMware with use of standard and
   template signatures. For 58 components a new Template Signatures are
   created.
   - Delivered 5 Ideas (BFINV-I-336
   <https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-336> , BFINV-I-369
   <https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-369> , BFINV-I-301
   <https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-301> , BFINV-I-307
   <https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-307> , BFINV-I-370
   <https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-370> )
   - Improved performance of catalog import due to removal of old software
   signatures from the BigFix Inventory main catalog (for more details refer
   to the release notes).
   - Publisher Normalization: In this release 5 publishers are normalized.
   Publisher data is improved for simplified data filtering and reporting. The
   changes include updating existing publisher names to current ones, and
   deduplicating publishers as well as covering acquisitions (for more details
   refer to the release notes):

 *2.* BigFix Inventory content related changes

   - Improved scanner installation on Windows - updated file and directory
   permissions 2 related fixlets are updated
   - Security enhancement - 7za file archiver for Windows updated to
   version 23.01.17 tasks and fixlets are updated (for more details refer to
   the release notes).


To view the complete list of new features and defects that were fixed in
this application update, refer to the release notes:
https://support.bigfix.com/bfi/BigFix-Inventory-20240410-ReleaseNotes.pdf
<https://support.bigfix.com/bfi/BigFix-Inventory-20240410-ReleaseNotes.pdf>
For more information about discovery capabilities, refer to Catalog Release
Notes:
https://software.bigfix.com/download/tema/catalog/BFI_catalog_release_notes.pdf
<https://software.bigfix.com/download/tema/catalog/BFI_catalog_release_notes.pdf>


To view the complete catalog content, use the Software Components report in
BigFix Inventory.

 *Actions needed:  *

 To apply new discovery capability, run the* Software Catalog Update*
Fixlet from the BigFix console and then wait for the next data import.
 The following fixlets were updated and should be run to install the latest
versions of the specific components:

   - Run Capacity Scan and Upload Results


   - Schedule VM Manager Tool Scan Results Upload


   - Force VM Manager Tool Scan Results Upload


   - Force Reupload of Software Scan Results

For more information about how to install, maintain, and use BigFix
Inventory application, refer to the user documentation:
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/inventory/welcome/BigFix_Inventory_welcome.html
<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/inventory/welcome/BigFix_Inventory_welcome.html>


We hope you find this latest release of BigFix Inventory content useful and
effective.

Thank you!

– The BigFix Inventory Team
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