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Compliance Setup Guide and User Guide
BigFix Compliance Analytics is a web-based application designed to help you manage security, vulnerability, and risk assessment. The application archives security and vulnerability compliance check results to identify configuration issues and report levels of compliance toward security configuration goals.
BigFix Compliance Analytics Setup Guide
Uninstalling
To remove BigFix Compliance from your infrastructure, stop the application-specific actions and analyses that are running on the computers and uninstall the scanner. Remove the VM Manager tool. Subsequently, uninstall the BigFix Compliance server, and optionally eliminate the associated database as well.
Uninstalling the server in interactive mode
To uninstall the BigFix Compliance server on Windows, run the uninstall.bat file. Follow the instructions in the installation wizard. The wizard does not uninstall the MS SQL Server or the BigFix server. These components need to be removed separately.

Compliance Setup Guide and User Guide
BigFix Compliance Analytics is a web-based application designed to help you manage security, vulnerability, and risk assessment. The application archives security and vulnerability compliance check results to identify configuration issues and report levels of compliance toward security configuration goals.
- BigFix Compliance Analytics Setup Guide
  - Introduction
    BigFix Compliance Analytics is a component of BigFix Compliance, that aggregates and reports on the compliance statuses of all endpoints against deployed policies that are continually collected, aggregated, and reported using a powerful Compliance Analytics engine, database and user interface.
  - Installing BigFix Compliance Analytics
    Use this guide to deploy and configure the BigFix Compliance Analytics.
  - Uninstalling
    To remove BigFix Compliance from your infrastructure, stop the application-specific actions and analyses that are running on the computers and uninstall the scanner. Remove the VM Manager tool. Subsequently, uninstall the BigFix Compliance server, and optionally eliminate the associated database as well.
    - Uninstalling the server in interactive mode
      To uninstall the BigFix Compliance server on Windows, run the uninstall.bat file. Follow the instructions in the installation wizard. The wizard does not uninstall the MS SQL Server or the BigFix server. These components need to be removed separately.
  - Configuring report definitions using REST API
    Administrators can use REST API to create, update, and delete saved report view definitions across BFC instances.
  - Disaster recovery for BigFix Compliance Analytics
    Use the standard cold standby method of creating a backup and restoring the system in your disaster recovery plan for BigFix Compliance Analytics.
- BigFix Compliance Analytics User Guide
  BigFix Compliance Analytics is a component of BigFix Compliance, that includes technical controls and tools that are based on industry practices and standards for endpoint and server security configuration.

Uninstalling the server on Windows in interactive mode

To uninstall the BigFix Compliance server on Windows, run the uninstall.bat file. Follow the instructions in the installation wizard. The wizard does not uninstall the MS SQL Server or the BigFix server. These components need to be removed separately.

Procedure

Log in to the computer where the BigFix Compliance server is installed as the same user who performed the installation.
Go to the C:\Program Files\BigFix Enterprise\SCA\Uninstall directory and run the uninstall.bat file. Start the uninstallation with the Run as administrator option.
Follow the instructions in the uninstallation wizard. When the uninstallation finishes, click Done.

Results

The BigFix Compliance server is uninstalled but the database, user logins, and passwords are preserved. To remove them, delete the BigFix Compliance database. You can also remove the BigFix server.