<html><body><p><font size="2" face="Arial">IBM BigFix Inventory and IBM License Metric Tool </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">application update 9.2.15</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"> is now available!</font><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">This update contains features that extend software discovery, enhance license reporting and address security scenarios. The key features include:</font><br>
<ul><ul type="disc"><li><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Preview feature*: New Software Summary (Preview) report</font></b></ul>
<ul type="disc"><li><font size="2" face="Arial">The new Software Summary (Preview) report provides an overview of software inventory in your environment. Each row represents a set of software components in a given version that are related to the specified product grouped by the selected columns.</font></ul></ul><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits: </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Thanks to the new report, you get a single point of reference for the high-level overview of your software inventory. The report is easy to read and customize.</font><ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><br><br></ul></ul></ul>
<li type="disc"><font size="2" face="Arial">Additionally, in BigFix Inventory, the report shows the usage statistics for your products, which are dynamically changed to ensure usage currency.</font></ul></ul><font size="2" face="Arial">Note: The usage statistics that are displayed on the report are planned to be enhanced in the future.</font><br><br><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits: </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Thanks to all usage statistics being available in one place, you can quickly compare the total number of software instance that are installed in your environment with the number of instances that are actually in use. Thus, you can plan how to manage your software needs and costs.</font><ul><ul><ul><ul><br><br><b><font size="2" face="Arial">* </font></b><i><font size="2" face="Arial">The Preview features give you a chance to take a sneak peek at what we are currently developing. You can try them out and provide your feedback to influence how they work when they are officially released. You can provide your feedback about the dashboard by clicking the Send Feedback button</font></i><br><br></ul></ul>
<li type="disc"><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Extended support</font></b></ul><br><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Support for the BigFix client on new platforms</font></b><ul type="disc"><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Windows 2019</font><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Oracle SPARC-M8 processor</font><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Ubuntu 18.04 on x86</font></ul><br><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Support for new virtualization technologies</font></b><ul type="disc"><li><font size="2" face="Arial">vCenter with external Platform Services Controllers (PSC) on different computers</font><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Support for Solaris Kernel zones on Oracle Solaris x86 and SPARC with nested virtualization</font></ul>
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<li type="disc"><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Extended reporting of usage statistics for Java (BigFix Inventory only)</font></b></ul></ul><font size="2" face="Arial">BigFix Inventory introduces a new method of reporting usage for Java Virtual Machine and Runtime Environments. Paths to Java processes that run on a computer are matched with paths in which the software is discovered.</font><br><br><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits: </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Thanks to the new method of reporting BigFix Inventory can determine exactly which Java instance is used. It allows you to distinguish between usage of IBM and Oracle Java installed on a single computer.</font><br>
<ul><ul type="disc"><li><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Enhanced Software Installations report</font></b></ul></ul><font size="2" face="Arial">The Software Installation report is improved to provide consistent data that is in line with other available reports.</font><br><br><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits: </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Thanks to the new data model, the report criteria are extended to cover additional component instances.</font><br>
<ul><ul type="disc"><li><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Extension of the To Do list for maintaining currency of your scanning actions</font></b></ul></ul><font size="2" face="Arial">The To Do list is extended and additionally displays information about the outdated scanning actions that need to be restarted.</font><br><br><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits:</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"> Thanks to the newly available information, you can monitor the scanning actions from the Web interface and make sure that scanned data for the related reports is accurate.</font><br>
<ul><ul type="disc"><li><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Names of fixlets in the BigFix console contain information about version</font></b></ul></ul><font size="2" face="Arial">Starting from now, names of all BigFix Inventory and License Metric Tool fixlets include their version.</font><br><br><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits: </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">Thanks to the clear versioning, you can easily check if your running actions are up-to-date. If not, you can decide to restart the actions to make sure that you take advantage of all the newest improvements.</font><br>
<ul><ul type="disc"><li><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Discovery of new components from, among others, Citrix, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle (BigFix Inventory only)</font></b></ul></ul><font size="2" face="Arial">The software catalog is extended to discover new components from Citrix, Symantec, and Oracle. To discover the components, ensure that you upgrade BigFix Inventory to version 9.2.15.</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Below is the list some of the newly added components. To get a full overview of additions and learn about their exact versions, use the Software Catalog widget in BigFix Inventory to browse the catalog content.</font><ul><ul type="disc"><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Extended discovery of Oracle Databases certified for Oracle Database 18c: 18.3</font><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Added discovery capability for Citrix products</font><ul><ul type="circle"><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Citrix XenApp </font><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Citrix XenApp Reports </font><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Citrix XenDesktop </font></ul></ul>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Added discovery capability for Hewlett-Packard products</font><ul><ul type="circle"><li><font size="2" face="Arial">HP Business Process Monitor</font><li><font size="2" face="Arial">HP Business Service Management</font><li><font size="2" face="Arial">HP Operations Agent</font><li><font size="2" face="Arial">HP Operations Manager</font></ul></ul>
<li><font size="2" face="Arial">Added discovery capability for Oracle products</font><ul><ul type="circle"><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Oracle Clusterware</font><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Oracle Linux</font><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Oracle SOA Suite</font></ul></ul><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits:</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"> More visibility into deployed products and components and better license management without the need to develop custom signatures.</font><li><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Security enhancements</font></b><li><font size="2" face="Arial">On the server side:</font><ul><ul type="circle"><li><font size="2" face="Arial">Rails is upgraded to version 5.0.7 to maintain security.</font><br></ul></ul></ul></ul><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Action to take</font></b><br><font size="2" face="Arial">To learn how to get the application update and deploy it as well as to view the full list of new features and APARs that were fixed in this application update, see the following links:</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">BigFix Inventory: </font><a href="https://ibm.biz/bfi_update_9215"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">https://ibm.biz/bfi_update_9215</font></u></a><br><font size="2" face="Arial">License Metric Tool: </font><a href="https://ibm.biz/lmt_update_9215"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">https://ibm.biz/lmt_update_9215</font></u></a><br><br><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Questions</font></b><br><font size="2" face="Arial">If you have any product-related questions, please post them on one of the following forums:</font><br><a href="https://ibm.biz/BFI_Forum"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">https://ibm.biz/BFI_Forum</font></u></a><br><a href="https://ibm.biz/ILMT_Forum"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">https://ibm.biz/ILMT_Forum</font></u></a> <br><br>
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