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Managing the infrastructure
After you complete the initial configuration of BigFix Inventory, learn how to manage components of its infrastructure: VM managers, server, database, and data sources.
Administering the server
Perform administering tasks on your server to configure advanced settings, or restart its services.

Managing the infrastructure
After you complete the initial configuration of BigFix Inventory, learn how to manage components of its infrastructure: VM managers, server, database, and data sources.
- Computer statuses
  Computer statuses provide information about the condition of the computers that are monitored by BigFix Inventory. To properly discover the installed software and measure its license metric utilization, ensure that computers in your environment work correctly.
- Managing VM managers
  VM managers are pieces of software that create, manage, and monitor virtual machines. You configure connections to VM managers so that BigFix Inventory can gather data that is required to calculate utilization of license metrics in virtual environments.
- Administering the server
  Perform administering tasks on your server to configure advanced settings, or restart its services.
  - Starting the server
    You can start the BigFix Inventory server by running the srvstart.bat or srvstart.sh script.
  - Stopping the server
    You can stop the BigFix Inventory server by running the srvstop.bat or srvstop.sh script.
  - Customizing the login page
    You can enter a custom message that will appear on the login page to differentiate between multiple instances of BigFix Inventory, or to provide extra information related to this instance. The custom message is commonly used to notify other users about specific conditions related to the instance, such as important configuration changes.
  - Setting session timeout
    The session timeout specifies the period of user inactivity after which the session ends, and the user is required to log in again. Before it happens, you are notified that the session is about to end.
  - SSO access blocked message
  - Configuring advanced server settings
    Available from 9.2.3. You can change advanced settings of the BigFix Inventory server, for example settings related to the configuration of the central VM Manager tool, on the Advanced Server Settings panel.
- Administering the database
  Perform administering tasks on your database to keep it in good condition, protect your data, or configure additional settings.
- Removing inactive computers
  When you decommission a computer in your infrastructure, it continues to report to BigFix Inventory. The data is still collected from this computer, and displayed on the metric reports. To ensure that all infrastructure changes are reflected in BigFix Inventory, you should remove each decommissioned computer from BigFix. If you cannot remove this computer from BigFix for a valid reason, you can use an alternative solution, and decommission the computer in BigFix Inventory.
- Managing data sources
  Computers in an organization can be divided into organizational units, and can be monitored by multiple BigFix infrastructures. Each infrastructure is referred to as a data source. Data from multiple data sources can be imported to one instance of BigFix Inventory.

Administering the server

Perform administering tasks on your server to configure advanced settings, or restart its services.