<html><body><p><font size="2" face="Arial">Software Knowledge Base Toolkit (SWKBT) was formerly shipped with BigFix Inventory and was used to create and manage software signatures.</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>This note is to confirm the end of support for SWKBT, effective April 30th, 2017, as it was announced in IBM Knowledge Center for BigFix Inventory:</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">“Starting from application update 9.2.2, the signatures can be created in BigFix Inventory. Thus, Software Knowledge Base Toolkit becomes deprecated and will eventually be sunset.” (</font><a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKLLW_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.inventory.doc/Inventory/softinv/c_advanced_catalog_management.html"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKLLW_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.inventory.doc/Inventory/softinv/c_advanced_catalog_management.html</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Arial">)</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>This strategy is in line with the feedback that we received from clients who have been using SWKBT so far. Until now, clients needed to install SWKBT to create custom signatures, as well as export and import the software catalog to Software Use Analysis or Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed. Now, the whole process is simplified and redesigned as part of BigFix Inventory. You can easily create, manage, and use custom signatures. Viewing and managing signatures is an important part of BigFix Inventory and will be enhanced in future releases. You can view the signatures in BigFix Inventory under </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Reports > Signatures. </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Clients are presented with seamless migration from SWKBT.</font><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">For more information, see:<br></font><font size="2" face="Arial">- Creating custom signatures:</font><br><a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKLLW_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.inventory.doc/Inventory/softinv/t_creating_catalog_entries.html"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKLLW_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.inventory.doc/Inventory/softinv/t_creating_catalog_entries.html</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">- Editing signatures: <br></font><a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKLLW_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.inventory.doc/Inventory/softinv/t_editing_entries_sua.html"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKLLW_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.inventory.doc/Inventory/softinv/t_editing_entries_sua.html</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Arial"> <br>- Migrating custom signatures from SWKBT to BigFix Inventory:</font><br><a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKLLW_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.inventory.doc/Inventory/upgrading/t_migrating_swkbt.html"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKLLW_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.inventory.doc/Inventory/upgrading/t_migrating_swkbt.html</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>If any of the functionalities available through SWKBT is missing, an RFE can be raised under the following link: </font><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Arial">. (Select ‘Security’ as a brand, and IBM BigFix Inventory as a product).</font><BR>
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