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Patch Management Settings and Reports 

Dec 16, 2015 04:15 PM

I have collected several useful reports, which are not available out-of-box, but could help you to maintain Patch Configuration in your environment.

Reports are from several contributors and KB articles referred later.

I have attached XML from which you can import reports into your SMP console:

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Currently enabled products

Metadata section does not have any export or print option, so it is difficult to monitor currently enabled vendors and products.

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You can get that list from this report:

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PMImport Failures and automated notifications

There is no reason to run PMImport daily, if you have agreed monthly patching. You may configure that task to run weekly, for instance.

It is important to know if that fails, but it can be only viewed in Metadata > Task settings page.

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I recommend this article to configure automated alerting: HOWTO77761

How do I create a custom Automation for Import Patch Data?

Respective report looks like this:

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Vendors and products with Bulletin Info

Over time we may have many vendors and products enabled, with data still present in CMDB.

(Those currently enabled are shown in report described above.)

Data will stay in database, until we delete them using this option:

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Until we perform that, below report would list all bulletins we have ever enabled and downloaded in the past. Currently enabled ones will show after next PMImport execution.

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Import all three reports from attached PM_Settings.xml 

 

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