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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The BigFix team is pleased to announce the release of version 9.5 Patch 9 (9.5.9.62) of the BigFix Platform.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Added signature to the Red Hat installation packages
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Starting from BigFix Version 9.5.9, the Red Hat RPM packages for Server, Agent and Relay are signed with a PGP key. Also the CentOS BigFix Agent and Relay use the same Red Hat binaries.
The same applies to Oracle Linux BigFix Agent </span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ability for endpoints to constrain the download action if the client is not connected to the designated (preferred) relay
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">BigFix 9.5.9 introduces the capability to prevent starting actions requiring downloads when the BigFix Agent is not connected to a preferred Relay. In such scenario, the user can avoid
that actions are executed if the total size of the downloads associated to the action exceeds a configurable value
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ability for Web Reports to restrict access to some properties
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">BigFix Version 9.5.9 introduces a new client setting that allows to configure a list of properties that will be blacklisted for Web Reports. This will help to prevent reporting on large
or privacy sensitive data as well as to limit memory usage </span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Improved Relay scalability by supporting 5000 endpoints per Relay
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">BigFix leaf relays for the Windows and Linux platforms can be configured now to manage up to 5000 endpoints. This 500% scalability improvement means reduced cost to deploy and manage
IT assets, while maintaining the superior visibility and security that BigFix is known for
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Other Enhancements
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Added support for IBM BigFix Agent and Relay on AIX 7.2 on Power 9
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">APAR and defect fixes
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">See further details in the 9.5.9 Release Notes at:
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a id="LPNoLP153377" href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/IBM%20BigFix%209.5.9%20Release%20Notes">https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/IBM%20BigFix%209.5.9%20Release%20Notes</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">See the full technical changelist at:
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https://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/fullchangelist-95.txt" href="https://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/fullchangelist-95.txt"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/fullchangelist-95.txt</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
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Pre-Upgrade Considerations: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">All BigFix Platform components are being released in this patch.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure to STOP the WebUI and any other active application connecting to the BigFix database BEFORE starting the upgrade
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A manual Server upgrade is required if you upgrade from a version earlier than 9.5.5. Refer to the 9.5.5 release notes for more information:
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https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/IBM%20BigFix%209.5.5%20Release%20Notes" href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/IBM%20BigFix%209.5.5%20Release%20Notes"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/IBM%20BigFix%209.5.5%20Release%20Notes</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A Pre-Upgrade check Fixlet is available. The Fixlet performs a set of checks to verify if the IBM BigFix Server can be successfully upgraded to 9.5.9. A log file is created in the IBM
BigFix Server directory containing details about the executed steps. </span></li></ul>
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Useful links: </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">IBM BigFix downloads and release information:
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http://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/9.5/patch9" href="http://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/9.5/patch9"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/9.5/patch9</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Upgrade documentation in IBM Knowledge Center
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https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQL82_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1_linux.html" href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQL82_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1_linux.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQL82_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1_linux.html</span></a>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">BigFix Server on Windows:
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https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQL82_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1.html" href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQL82_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQL82_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1.html</span></a>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Discuss this on the forum:
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https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-9-5-patch-9-is-now-available/25258" href="https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-9-5-patch-9-is-now-available/25258"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-9-5-patch-9-is-now-available/25258</span></a></span></p>
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