About Compliance Reports - Symantec ALTIRIS PATCH MANAGEMENT SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - FOR WINDOWS V1.0 Manual

54 Using Patch Management reports

About compliance reports

About compliance reports
Patch Management Solution for Windows provides the following reports:
Compliance reports
See "About compliance reports"
Diagnostic reports
See "About diagnostic reports"
Remediation status reports
See "About remediation status reports"
Software bulletin reports
See "About software bulletin reports "
See "Viewing Patch Management reports"
Patch Management Solution for Windows also has a Patch Management home
page. This is a portal page that is comprised of a number of Web parts displaying
results from commonly used reports.
See "About the Patch Management home page"
Compliance reports are the key to quickly determining what software updates
your managed computers require. Compliance reports are used to determine if
computers are up to date with the latest software updates, and also to check if a
particular software bulletin or update is installed on your managed computers.
This is useful if a specific security issue affects your network environment and a
certain update addresses the problem.
When viewing compliance reports from the Patch Remediation Center page, you
can start distributing software updates directly from report results. For example,
if you want to quickly distribute all critical updates, you would sort the report
results by Severity. Then, right-click all critical updates and click Stage. Then you
can distribute the updates.
See "About staging and distributing software bulletins"
You can find the compliance reports in the Symantec Management Console under
Reports > All Reports > Software > Patch Management > Compliance.
Compliance reports are also featured in the Patch Management home page for
easy access.
See "About the Patch Management home page"
See "About Patch Management Solution for Windows reports"
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