<font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.<br><br>The SCC download plug-in will be available in the Manage Download Plug-ins
dashboard as a new plug-in entry called <i>SCC Plug-in. </i><br><br>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.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Actions that you need to take BEFORE
the release:</b> </font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Review your baselines. Ensure that
the best practices for baselines listed at </font><a href=https://ibm.biz/Bdsc8D target=_blank><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif"><u>https://ibm.biz/Bdsc8D</u></font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">are followed.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b><br>Actions that you need to take AFTER the release:</b> </font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Register the SCC download plug-in
on the BigFix server.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* 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 </font><a href=https://ibm.biz/Bdsc8d target=_blank><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif"><u>https://ibm.biz/Bdsc8d</u></font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">.</font><br><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>Application Engineering team</i></font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>IBM BigFix</i></font><br><br><BR>