<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4f97a8dc-7fff-a805-26b0-695ac5c76411"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BigFix Inventory Team is proud to announce the new version of BigFix Inventory Catalog. </span></p></span><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4e1bb79b-7fff-ed2e-27e9-8c29ec95b1e3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Product:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BigFix Inventory Catalog update 20260913</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Published site version:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BigFix Inventory Discovery - version 48</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Features:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Key updates in HCL BigFix Inventory Catalog 20260913: </span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Discovery of 330+ new software versions including but not limited to the following software manufacturers  like Amazon, Anthropic, Citrix, DeepSeek, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Open Text, OpenAI, Oracle, Perplexity, SAP & VMware.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Catalog enhancements for AI Management dashboard:</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.28;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Configuration and product definitions adjusted to provide full visibility of discovered AI tools on macOS devices.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.28;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Added discovery for OpenCode and Hermes Agent.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.28;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Added bundling information to 7 Web AI Assistant components and added 3 new products for Web AI Assistant components.</span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Product bundling definitions enhancement:</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Product bundling definitions for the HCL BigFix Platform (version 10 and 11) components and HCL BigFix Remote Control (version 10) components to the HCL BigFix Platform parent product have been added. This is a reporting improvement designed to help easily localize and filter information within inventory reports.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Product bundling definitions for the HCL Workload Automation(v10.2), HCL Hero(v1.0), and HCL Clara(v2.0) components have been added.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Metric data has been added for 13 Oracle Database Licensable Option components to improve license compliance and utilization reporting.</span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Added 9 new Publishers to Catalog</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.28;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Delivered Idea </span><a href="https://bigfix-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/BFINV-I-525" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BFINV-I-525</span></a></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.28;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Optimization for Catalog processing by removing old software signatures from BigFix Inventory main Catalog.  Deleted 30+ signatures.</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To view the complete list of new features and defects that were fixed in this application update, refer to the release notes.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Catalog: </span><a href="https://support.bigfix.com/bfi/BigFix-Inventory-Catalog-20260913-ReleaseNotes.pdf" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://support.bigfix.com/bfi/BigFix-Inventory-Catalog-20260913-ReleaseNotes.pdf</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To view the complete catalog content, use the Software Components report in BigFix Inventory.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Actions needed:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To apply new discovery capability, run the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Server</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Software Catalog Update</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Fixlet ( </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BigFix Inventory Discovery</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> site) from the BigFix console and then wait for the next data import.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information about how to install, maintain, and use BigFix Inventory application, refer to the user documentation: </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/welcome/BigFix_Inventory_welcome.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BigFix 11 Inventory Documentation</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To find out more about Catalog Updates, visit:  </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/Inventory/Discovery/Catalog_overview_main.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Catalog Overview</span></a></p></span><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-eadae825-7fff-370e-25ca-2d04ab7408d7"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We hope you find this latest release of BigFix Inventory Catalog content useful and effective.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">– The BigFix Inventory Team </span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>