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Compliance</span></p>

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Availability of BigFix Compliance Analytics version 2.0 Patch 18</span></p>

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Reporting, v170</span></p>

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BigFix is pleased to announce the release of BigFix Compliance Analytics
version 2.0 Patch 18. </span></p>

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release includes </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="color:black">Upgrade
to Sumeru Java 21.0.10_7</span></p>

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to Rails 8.1.3</span></p>

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to WLP 26.0.0.3</span></p>

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include an enhancement</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

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  intimate Admin of SSL certificate Expiry</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Actions to take:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in 14pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">1.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Upgrade BigFix Compliance Analytics to version
2.0.18 to take advantage of the fixes.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">For first-time
installations:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">1.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">In the License Overview Dashboard in the BigFix
console (BigFix Management domain), enable the SCM Reporting site.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">2.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">In the Security Configuration domain in the
console, open the Configuration Management navigation tree.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">3.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Select the Fixlet named BigFix Compliance
Server 2.0 - First-time Install Fixlet under the BigFix Compliance
Install/Upgrade menu tree node.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 14pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">4.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Follow the Fixlet instructions and take the
associated action to install your BigFix Compliance deployment.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">For upgrade installations:
Refer to the below upgrade steps for the BigFix Compliance version that you are
using.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">IMPORTANT: Before you
start any upgrade process, perform a server and database backup.</span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">A. For BigFix Compliance
Analytics versions 1.9.x, 1.10.x and 2.0.x:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">1.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Make sure that you complete the server and
database backup.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">2.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">It is recommended to stop the BigFix Compliance
Server or at least disable scheduled Data Imports to ensure that Data Import is
not in progress during the upgrade.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">3.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">In the Security Configuration domain in the
console, open the Configuration Management navigation tree.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">4.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Under the BigFix Compliance Install/Upgrade
menu tree item, select the BigFix Compliance Server 2.0 - Upgrade Fixlet which
automatically installs and upgrades to the new version.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">5.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Follow the Fixlet instructions and take the
associated action to upgrade your BigFix Compliance deployment.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 14pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">6.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Update the data schema. To do this, log in to
the BigFix Compliance web interface from the host server and proceed with
configuration. Upgrading the data scheme is expected and it will take some time
to complete. NOTE: Automatic upgrade installation only affects installations
running under the LocalSystem account. Follow the Fixlet instructions to
install the update manually if this fix cannot be applied.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">B. For BigFix Compliance Analytics versions before 1.9:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">1.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Manually upgrade to version 1.10.1.48. The
1.10.1.48 installer can be found here <br>
</span><span lang="EN"><a href="http://software.bigfix.com/download/bfc/server/1.10/bfc-server-1.10.1.48.exe"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,136,204)">http://software.bigfix.com/download/bfc/server/1.10/bfc-server-1.10.1.48.exe</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">2.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">After manually upgrading to version 1.10.1.48,
use the BigFix Compliance Server 2.0 Upgrade Fixlet to upgrade to version 2.0
(See step A).</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">More information:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols"">●<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">BigFix Compliance Guide: </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCA_Users_Guide/securityandcomplianceanalyticsuserguide.html"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,136,204)">https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCA_Users_Guide/securityandcomplianceanalyticsuserguide.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 14pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols"">●<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">BigFix Forums - Release Announcements Channel: </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,136,204)">https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14pt 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">BigFix Compliance team</span><span lang="EN"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">HCL BigFix</span></p></div>