Reporting on missing patches

[pcryan]

Good Day

I am shopping around for a patch program for our fleet of Windows 2003/08/12/16/19 servers.

Quick question – can BatchPatch provide an XLS/CVS summary file of all patched installed missed broken out per server?

My thanks
~Peter

[doug]

Hi Peter – Yes you can do that:

Create a Consolidated Report of Available Updates

Create a Consolidated Report of Windows Update History

Using the HTML Export Feature to Produce Reports of BatchPatch Activity

[pcryan]

This is very helpful and I thank you for it.

last Quick question (I hope) can BP generate a list of servers and patches with failed installs? Your example shows succeeded but I am not sure if I could do … the reverse?

BTW – very slick looking product!

Consolidated-Update-History-Report-Output.png

thanks
P

[doug]

The same consolidated update history report that you linked an image to above has a column for ‘Result’, which will show failures. That said, I’m unsure how useful this would end up being.

If you use BatchPatch to perform an update installation, BatchPatch will report in the ‘Remote Agent Log’ for that task the details of each update installation (success, failure, etc). The ‘Remote Agent Log’ column in BatchPatch is also saved automatically to the remote agent log file that is stored on the target computer (default location on target is C:\Program Files\BatchPatch\batchpatch.log). You can use the HTML export feature, mentioned in my previous posting, after an update installation task to review the failures. And of course you can review the batchpatch.log file on a target computer to examine the failures from previous tasks. However, aside from the update history report mentioned at the top of this posting there is not another way to pull a “live report” of updates installation failures that took place in the past.

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