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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: 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.

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: 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.
  - Lesson 1: Retrieving information about software assignments
    Available from 9.2.14 This lesson shows you how to use the REST API request to retrieve software assignments of a computer that is moved to the new BigFix server.
  - Lesson 2: Performing tests and migrating the assignments
    Available from 9.2.14 This lesson shows you how to run a test and complete the migration of software assignments for a computer that is moved to the new BigFix server.

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.

Learning objectives

In this tutorial you learn how to perform the following tasks:

Retrieving information about the software assignments for the computer that is moved to the new BigFix server.
Changing the Data Source Computer ID, performing test, and migrating the software assignments of the computer which is connected to the new BigFix server.

Time required: 20 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.

Lessons in this tutorial