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Tutorials help you understand how to use BigFix Inventory. They consist of modules that focus on broad goals. Modules consist of tasks that show how to configure specific settings step-by-step.
Tutorial: Bulk software classification using external tools

Tutorials
Tutorials help you understand how to use BigFix Inventory. They consist of modules that focus on broad goals. Modules consist of tasks that show how to configure specific settings step-by-step.
- Tutorial: Reporting subcapacity usage per computer group
  Available from 9.2.2. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create computer groups that allow for managing software and generating audit snapshots for a subset of computers. You can use such groups to report PVU consumption for BigFix software installed in multiple BigFix subcapacity regions or to manage software per organizational business unit.
- Tutorial: Managing software in the service provider environment
  Available from 9.2.2. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create computer groups that allow a service provider to manage software and generate audit snapshots per customer.
- Tutorial: Bulk software classification using external tools
  - Lesson 1: Reassigning large quantities of software instances
    This lesson shows you how to reassign large quantities of software instances with the REST API and a cURL command line tool. You can use the information in this lesson to implement an automatic external tool for large scale rebundling.
  - Lesson 2: Excluding software instances from usage calculations
    This lesson shows you how to exclude products from license usage calculations with the REST API and a cURL command line tool. You can use the information in this lesson to implement an automatic external tool for large scale rebundling.
- Tutorial: Migrating software assignments between two BigFix servers
  Available from 9.2.14This tutorial teaches you how to migrate the software assignments for each computer that is moved to a new BigFix server using the REST API requests.

Tutorial: Bulk software classification using external tools

Tutorial abstract: Bulk software classification using external tools

This tutorial teaches you how to rebundle products using the REST API and a cURL command line tool.

Learning objectives

In this tutorial you learn to do the following tasks:

Reassign software instances.
Exclude software instances.

Time required
120 minutes.: If you explore other concepts that are related to this tutorial, it might take longer to complete.

The order of lessons:: This tutorial contains two lessons. Complete them in order.

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