[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Inventory: Application Update 11.0.6.0 published 2025-12-17
Announcements for BES Administrators
besadmin-announcements at bigmail.bigfix.com
Wed Dec 17 13:16:39 PST 2025
The BigFix Inventory Team is proud to announce the new version of the
BigFix Inventory.
*Product:*BigFix Inventory application update 11.0.6.0
*Published site:*BigFix Inventory version 11
*Features:*
Key features in HCL BigFix Inventory 11.0.6.0:
- User Interface navigation change - the main menu component has been
moved to the left-side. Original menu structure and options are preserved.
Import status and action are now under a dedicated icon in the main bar.
- Idea BFINV-I-195 <https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-195>:
Software reports offer new Standard End of Support, Extended End of Support
and Release Date attributes on top of the original End of Support
information. In this release, data is available for Broadcom, Microsoft,
Micro Focus (Open Text), Oracle, RED HAT, SAP, SAS, Veritas and VMware
(Broadcom) software. For the future updates refer to catalog update
announcements.
- License Optimizer: A ready-to-use dashboard delivering AI-powered
pricing insights and essential tools to optimize licenses and reduce costs
for a set of desktop applications. With future product releases, the
License Optimizer will be expanded to include additional desktop and
datacenter products. For more details, refer to
https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/Inventory/overview/license_optimizer.html
- Cached dashboard data for Inventory, Reports and Spend dashboards
New mechanism implemented to cache data on the server side to eliminate
unnecessary database queries and provide quick dashboard response time in
big environments. Automatic cache refresh is aligned to data imports (both
regular and continuous discovery processing) and additionally can be
triggered on demand.
- Management: Data Imports panel has been reorganized
- Import history and import log are now located under a new Import
History tab
- Import schedule and notifications are now located under a new
Import Settings tab
- New Continuous Discovery Processing statistics for the last 24
hours are available now under a dedicated tab.
- Data Import performance improvements
- Optimized import time for environments with Microsoft SQL Server
(30% observed in lab environment)
- Continuous Discovery Processing mode when enabled additionally
optimizes the standard import time (by 25% in lab environment).
- Software scan process update
- Metering Data and Package Data are no longer dependent on analyses.
These data scans are now part of the standard scanning lifecycle. Data is
generated by the Initiate software scan and uploaded using upload or
reupload Fixlets.
- Installed Windows Applications, Installed UNIX Packages and
Application Usage Statistics analyses are available in the site for
backward compatibility for the scenario where the previous
BigFix Inventory
server version is still used.
- Enhanced Application Usage detection
- The new usage detection algorithm significantly improves monitoring
coverage for desktop applications and extends coverage for enterprise
applications. It is applied on top of catalog and catalog-less discovery
methods.
- The *Metering Data* report offers additional details like file path
and software instances matched to a specific process. The
previous data is
no longer valid and it is removed during the upgrade to offer new usage
statistics based on a fresh and complete data set collected from the
endpoint.
- The* Software Classification* report offers more granular usage
statistics per software instance and additional *Usage Facts* section
in the *Details* panel.
- The usage data collection is controlled now by the Initiate
Software Scan and activation of *Application Usage Statistics* analysis
is no longer needed (it is deprecated starting from this version
and valid
for previous server versions only).
- Regular import calculates *Component Evidence* and new *Details* for
the *Software Classification* report. In the previous release this
information was available for software discovery covered by the Continuous
Discovery Processing mode only.
In case of environments with DB2 the import time is extended by 10% to
cover this new data processing. It is optimized if continuous Discovery
Processing mode is enabled.
- The Continuous Discovery Processing enhancements
- Support for hardware discovery - capacity data and VM Manager tool
data processing
- Default frequency changed for *Schedule VM Manager Tool Scan
Results Upload* Fixlet from 12 to 6 hours to process more frequently
smaller data sets.
- Support for Metering Data processing and software usage calculation
- If Continuous Discovery Processing mode is enabled then regular
import time is reduced (25% observed in a lab environment).
- New Continuous Discovery Processing statistics in the *Data
Imports *panel help to optimize scan schedules to achieve near real
time reporting.
- BigFix Inventory 11.0.6 is an equivalent to IBM License Metric Tool
9.2.41 for IBM Virtualization Capacity reporting
Notes:
- The scanner equivalent - BigFix Scanner v11.0.41.0 is available under
the BigFix Scanner site. For details refer to the scanner release notes:
https://support.bigfix.com/scanner/BigFix-Scanner-11.0.41.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
- RVU Managed Activated Processor Cores metric is unified. The full name
is used instead of the RVU MAPC abbreviation.
- The new version is under certification process by IBM on the release
date. To view the status of IBM validated releases, refer to
https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/SubCapacity/BFI_and_HCL_FAQ.pdf
- Usability and serviceability enhancements
- Server installation and upgrade procedure has been reviewed and
specific findings are addressed - for details refer to the release notes
- Software Classification performance is improved for out of the box
and custom reports filtered by *Software Component Publisher* in set
- The ToDo List is now present in each dashboard. Idea BFINV-I-262
<https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-262>: ToDo list can
be hidden for non-administrative users if needed
- Idea BFINV-I-472
<https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-472>: API to
decommission computers from disconnected scans and container images
- Dedicated timeout setting for the *Get Oracle Database Measurements*
Fixlet
- Improved logging for the *Get Oracle Database Measurements* Fixlet.
- Catalog 20251128 is included in the server package
Catalog extended with Standard EOS, Extended EOS and Release Date
attributes.
- Support for new systems and platforms
- Debian 13 on x86 by using the disconnected scanner
- Virtualization - Nutanix PRISM Central Ideas BFINV-I-251
<https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-251> and BFINV-I-305
<https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-305>.
- Security enhancements
- IBM WebSphere Liberty was updated to version 25.0.0.11
- A number of other libraries have been updated.
- The BigFix Scanner version 11.0.41.0 covers 7za binary update to
version 25.01
To view the complete list of new features and defects that were fixed in
this application update, refer to the release notes.
Server and tools:
https://support.bigfix.com/bfi/BigFix-Inventory-11.0.6.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
Catalog:
https://support.bigfix.com/bfi/BigFix-Inventory-Catalog-20251128-ReleaseNotes.pdf
Scanner:
https://support.bigfix.com/scanner/BigFix-Scanner-11.0.41.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
*Actions needed:*
To upgrade the BigFix Inventory server to application update 11.0.6.0, run
the *Upgrade to the latest version of BigFix Inventory* Fixlet from the
BigFix console and the BigFix Inventory site.
*Important! It is recommended to restart the BigFix Inventory Server after
successful database schema upgrade to ensure proper initialization of
internal information about current database schema.*
Note: The *Central VM Tool on Linux *cannot be upgraded independently. It
should be updated only when the BigFix Inventory server is upgraded.
The complete upgrade procedure and post-upgrade steps are available in the
product documentation:
https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/Inventory/upgrading/t_upgrading.html
https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/BigFix_Scanner/BigFix_Scanner/Installation/upgrading_scanner_tools_actions.html
For more information about how to install, maintain, and use the BigFix
Inventory application, refer to the user documentation:
https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/welcome/BigFix_Inventory_welcome.html
To find out more about Software Asset Management at BigFix, visit the
BigFix page: https://www.hcl-software.com/bigfix/software-asset-management
We hope you find this latest release of BigFix Inventory content useful and
effective.
Thank you!
*– The BigFix Inventory Team *
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