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Fully Patched Gauge Clarification

Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 3:58 pm
by MrRat
On the Patch Success tab the Fully Patched This Month gauge goes to 100 so I would assume that is a percentage, and yet the text in it identifies it as individual systems.

Re: Fully Patched Gauge Clarification

Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 6:48 pm
by Cubert
Nope, That is a count and a self scaling gauge. If it shows 100 as a max in gauge then you have less than 100 agents reporting fully patched. If you have 400 agents showing fully patch the gauge will max at 500 agents.

Re: Fully Patched Gauge Clarification

Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 6:55 pm
by MrRat
now the question becomes what does fully patched mean.

does it account for Patch Manager approval status?
is it counting all those dang driver patches i deny every month?

Re: Fully Patched Gauge Clarification

Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 8:20 pm
by Cubert
Fully patched is looking the h_commands table in LabTech for any agent ID that has output like "No Updates to Install" when labtech asks for its patch status as part of its patch probing.

Any system that reports that status within the same month and year as we are in now is considered up to date.

So this gauge is truly what Windows believes it is at and not what you have approved or denied.

Re: Fully Patched Gauge Clarification

Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 10:22 pm
by scripts4life
Is it possible for a feature request to base fully patched systems on what I have approved for patches?

Re: Fully Patched Gauge Clarification

Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 1:33 pm
by MrRat
scripts4life wrote:Is it possible for a feature request to base fully patched systems on what I have approved for patches?
And what about patches in Test or Pilot stages. There is no one definition of Fully Patched. Perhaps the best solution would be multiple gauges. Like the Dashboard of the Patch Manager; except one that was accurate and reliable, unlike the Patch Manager dashboard.

For auditing purposes I need both a measure of all patches and all patches released to Production.