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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The BigFix Team is pleased to announce the release of version 10 Patch 2 (10.0.2.52) of BigFix Platform.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The main features in this release are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Install BigFix Agent on AWS or Azure VMs by using cloud APIs
</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You can now install BigFix Agent in AWS and Azure environments by leveraging the cloud provider services and APIs. With this enhancement, you can speed up the deployment of agents without the need for deploying and configuring
the Client Deploy Tool (CDT), and providing OS access credentials for target cloud instances<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For details, see:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US">
<a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_install_oncloud.html">
Installing the BigFix Agent on cloud-native resources</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Improved performance and resilience via guided tuning of the MS-SQL configuration
</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The installer now checks for and optionally adjusts suboptimal configuration in terms of DoP (Degree of Parallelism) and CTFP (Cost Threshold for Parallelism) of a SQL Server instance. In case of configuration issues
that cannot be solved automatically, you are provided with enough background and guidance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For details, see:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US">
<a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_sql_server_parallelism_opt.html">
SQL Server parallelism optimization</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Leverage Docker images for root server DB in Windows</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You can now leverage official Ubuntu-based images of MS SQL Server for Docker as a remote database for the Windows BigFix root Server. Platform 10.0.2 officially certifies the MS SQL Server 2017 and MS SQL Server 2019
Docker containers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For details, see: <a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_spcr_platform.html">
Detailed system requirements</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Improved PeerNest behavior in case of large payloads</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Starting with this release, you can elect peers to download files based on the peer cache size too – only specific clients will download large files directly from the Relay. This prevents clients not having enough cache
from initiating downloads which in turns helps increase efficiency and reduce overall distribution time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For details, see: <a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_P2P.html">
Working with PeerNest</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Accelerate responses by allowing clients to use additional CPU in download phase</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You can now speed up the operations to evaluate the hash (sha1/sha256) code of downloaded files by temporarily directing the BigFix Client to use additional CPU. This results in a consistent time optimization for the
download phase since the time required for the hash evaluation decreases as the engaged CPU increases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For details, see: <a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_client_cpu.html">
Configuring Client CPU Utilization</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Other Enhancements</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">Added support for:<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">BigFix Server for RHEL 8 x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">BigFix Relay for Raspbian 10 on Raspberry Pi 4<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">BigFix Agent for Mac OS 11 x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">BigFix Agent for Debian 10 x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">BigFix Agent for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ppc64le on p8<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">DB2 Standard Edition 11.5.4<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">SQL Server 2019<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><span lang="EN-US">SQL Server 2017 and 2019 deployed in a Docker container<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">Upgraded libcurl to version 7.73.0
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">Fixed DAs and defects. For details, see the technical specification section below.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Additional information about this release</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">After applying this Platform patch, when a new WebUI update is published, in deployments where WebUI is configured not to auto-update, the
<b>WebUI service will no longer be automatically restarted</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">The <b>unixODBC RPM package is a prerequisite</b> for the Server components on Linux systems (see
<a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_tivoli_endpoint_manager_server.html">
Server Requirements</a>). This applies to version 10.0.2 and later.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">The standalone BigFix tools are published under the 10.0 Utilities section in
<a href="http://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/">BigFix Enterprise Suite Download Center</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">References</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-US">See the full technical
<a href="https://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/fullchangelist-100.txt">changelist</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Pre-Upgrade Considerations</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-US">This release includes all the BigFix Platform components. It also includes the Plugin Portal that enables the Multicloud and Modern Client Management capabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-US">The unixODBC RPM package is a prerequisite for the Server components on Linux systems (see
<a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_tivoli_endpoint_manager_server.html">
Server Requirements</a>). This applies to version 10.0.2 and later.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-US">Upgrade paths to BigFix 10 begin with v9.5.10 or later. For details, see
<a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrade_paths.html">
Upgrade paths</a> (Windows) and <a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrade_paths_linux.html">
Upgrade paths</a> (Linux).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-US">For detailed information on the specific changes to minimum supported versions of operating systems and databases for BigFix 10, see
<a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_spcr_platform.html">
Detailed system requirements</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"><span lang="EN-US">BEFORE getting started with the upgrade process, stop any active application that is connected to the BigFix database (such as Web Reports, WebUI, BigFix Inventory, or BigFix Compliance).<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Useful links</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/10.0/patch2/">BigFix downloads and release information</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"><span lang="EN-US">BigFix 10 documentation
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level2 lfo5"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/index.html">Home page</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level2 lfo5"><span lang="EN-US">Upgrade considerations
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level3 lfo5"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1.html">Windows</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level3 lfo5"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1_linux.html">Linux</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l4 level2 lfo5"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_spcr_platform.html">Detailed system requirements</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Upgrade Fixlets are available in BES Support version 1445 (or later).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Discuss this on the <a href="https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-10-0-patch-2-is-now-available/36763">
forum</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">–</span><span lang="EN-US"> The BigFix Platform Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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