Summarize number of updates available / needed per grid

[Mbrodin]

Hi

would be nice if BP could summarize the total number of patches needed per grid/tab after a “check for available updates”. Do you think that is possible?

Regards

Mats Brodin

[doug]

Hi Mats – Could you elaborate on what purpose this would serve? I’d like to understand from your perspective why you think this would be beneficial. At the moment from my perspective I can’t think of how this really is helpful, so I’d be interested to hear what you think. Furthermore, could you explain how you would want it to be handled in the case that multiple rows need the same patches. So for example if there are 5 hosts in the grid, and each host needs the same 4 updates, do you want to see 4 updates needed for the grid or do you want to see 20 updates needed or do you want to see something like 4 unique updates / 20 total updates needed?

[Mbrodin]

Hi Doug

It´s for statistical purposes / reports only – After scanning for vulnerabilities on servers / desktops / laptops, I choose maybe 100 machines with highest number of vulnerabilities from that report, I do a check for available updates and i would like to report back to management the total number of Microsoft updates that we are missing / can be applied. I also can track patch-effectiveness overtime if we are doing better or worse regarding MS patches. Easy to report if other 3rd party software gets more vulnerable if the number of MS available patches decrease.

So, today I selected 175/216 computers (the other ones offline) and now it would nice to see how many patches I can install. Both unique and total would be nice 🙂

Does that explain my goal?

best

Mats

[doug]

Thanks. We’ll consider this. In the meantime you can actually get this answered at least partially by using ‘Generate consolidated report of available updates’. In the lower left corner of that report window there is a ‘Rows’ number that tells you the total number of updates found.

[Mbrodin]

Thanks Doug!

the consolidated report is a good workaround, though it takes a couple of hours collecting all the information (if machines are spread over several countries)

I can use that report for now, but ultimate is to just see the numbers directly after checking for available updates.

/regards

Mats

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