[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Inventory: Application Update 11.0.9.0 published 2026-09-30
Announcements for BES Administrators
besadmin-announcements at bigmail.bigfix.com
Wed Sep 30 09:32:24 PDT 2026
The BigFix Inventory Team is proud to announce the new version of the BigFix
Inventory.
Product:
BigFix Inventory application update 11.0.9.0
Published site:
BigFix Inventory version 20
Features:
Key features in HCL BigFix Inventory 11.0.9.0:
- AI Management
- New Blocklist and Unblock actions in the AI Management dashboard
- AI Web Assistants inventory with a new BigFix Scanner Browser
Extension. Data is presented in the AI Management dashboard and
dedicated AI Web Assistants report.
- For more details, refer to the release notes.
- Oracle Database License Optimizer dashboards
A ready-to-use dashboards delivering AI-powered pricing insights and
essential tools to optimize licenses and reduce costs, dedicated for Oracle
Database products. For details, check
https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/Inventory/overview/license_optimizer_for_Oracle_DB_products.html
- Ideas BFINV-I-384
<https://bigfix.ideas.hcl-software.com/ideas/BFINV-I-384>, BFINV-I-79
<https://bigfix.ideas.hcl-software.com/ideas/BFINV-I-79>: Hardware
Inventory data for macOS devices
- Support for Capacity and Detailed Hardware Scans
- Minimum requirements: macOS 12 or later, BigFix Platform Agent
11.0.6 or later, BigFix Scanner 11.0.44 or later
- Blocklist software actions
- Blocklist action is available now also on a Product level (Product
& Metrics report supports tags)
- New Blocklist and Unblock actions are available on Software
Classification, Catalog Components and Products & Metrics. Those
actions add/remove blocklist tags to selected Catalog
definitions, Software
Instances and Products.
- Catalog update enhancements
- Idea BFINV-I-101
<https://bigfix.ideas.hcl-software.com/ideas/BFINV-I-101>: Automatic
HCL catalog update is enabled by default for fresh installation
and can be
also configured after the upgrade. When this option is enabled then the
catalog import time does not affect the scheduled data import time. Note:
IBM catalog is updated with the server upgrade or by using a dedicated
Fixlet.
- New advanced server settings are available to control when a new
catalog is available to automatically download and update it on
the server.
- New option available in Management>Catalog>Server Software Catalog
to apply new catalog on demand not waiting for the scheduled import. This
is for configuration where automatic catalog update is disabled.
- The Management>Catalog>Server Software Catalog panel is updated to
support the enhancements above
- Idea IDEACNCTNS-I-224
<https://bigfix.ideas.hcl-software.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-2242>: New
Rest APIs for catalog import
- Software bundling enhancements
- A new option in the Assign Components to Product or IBM Product
Bundle panel, which allows narrowing the bundling options only to
products detected on selected computers
- Allowed Bundlings report offers a new Source column.
- Software Discovery Evidence enhancements
- Package Data report is renamed to Application Evidence
- Package Summary is renamed to Application Summary Evidence and it
is calculated by default for All Computers (on demand option stays for
remaining computer groups).
- Scanned File Data renamed to File Evidence and moved under Software
menu
- Add signature option renamed to Classify and it is also added to
the actions bar
- Note: Classification from the Application Evidence Summary is
automatic based on the normalized name, vendor and version columns
available in this report. Classification from the Application Evidence
report allows for a simple confirmation or advanced edit option (custom
catalog signature panel).
- User interface changes
- Login window and Users reports - labels and styles adjusted to
BigFix guidelines
- Style of selected widgets in Dashboard adjusted to BigFix guidelines
- Table grid style adjusted to BigFix guidelines
- Configurable table density in reports and management panels. A
Comfortable
density is set as default. A previous Standard density can be
selected and is active for the user session time.
- BigFix Inventory 11.0.9 is an equivalent to IBM License Metric Tool
9.2.44.X for IBM Virtualization Capacity reporting.
- The BigFix Inventory 11.0.9 is an IBM-approved tool. For details
refer to the IBM BFI FAQ document:
https://www.ibm.com/downloads/documents/us-en/16ddd5a57a3948f6
- Note: The scanner equivalent is BigFix Scanner v11.0.44.0. For
details refer to the platform announcements and the scanner
release notes:
https://support.bigfix.com/scanner/BigFix-Scanner-11.0.44.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
- mTLS support for License Reclamation functionality for BigFix DEX
- Other usability and serviceability enhancements
- Saved Reports: Name is sorted locally to assure alphabetical and
not database order.
- BigFix Inventory installer offers more granular error codes
- Software Summary report offers Usage Actively Monitored information
- Unsupported Virtualization status is available in the VM Managers
panel
- The BFI utility supports an option to display the BigFix Inventory
server and BFI Utility versions
- Datasource Delete process for DB2 - stored procedure for optimal
removal of large data sets
- Catalog 20260913 is included in the server package
- Support for new systems and platforms
- Debian 13 (x86-64) support for the managed devices
- VMware ESXi 9.0 is supported virtualization
- MS SQL Server 2025 and DB2 12.1.4 and higher are supported as
BigFix Inventory server database
- Linux Red Hat Enterprise 10 x86-64 for BigFix Inventory server
- Security enhancements
- Open Liberty was upgraded to version 26.0.0.9
- Java JRE was upgraded to version 21.0.12.10 for all components
- A number of other libraries have been updated.
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-11.0.9.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
Catalog:
https://support.bigfix.com/bfi/BigFix-Inventory-Catalog-20260913-ReleaseNotes.pdf
Scanner:
https://support.bigfix.com/scanner/BigFix-Scanner-11.0.44.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf
Actions needed:
To upgrade the BigFix Inventory server to application update 11.0.9.0, 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.
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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