Hello;
I am looking for a report which will pull client machine status of pending restarts and completed for our patch deployment.
I entered the topic and came across this script which I am not sure if this will suffice. Thank you.
(id of action of it , name of action of it | “n/a” , names of computers of it | “n/a”, detailed statuses of it) of results of bes actions whose (time issued of it > (now - 30 * day))
Hello;
Just following up if anyone had any input on this topic (Client machine restarts)
Not sure if above script will provide me the info I need. Thank you.
Have you tried that in a custom report? Looks like it should work to me.
Hi Jason,
Thanks for your response.
I entered the following script in the Relevance field under the Properties tab in Analysis report
(id of action of it , name of action of it | “n/a” , names of computers of it | “n/a”, detailed statuses of it) of results of bes actions whose (time issued of it > (now - 30 * day))
But I get a syntax error.
Do you know what syntax change I need to make. Thanks.
This is Session Relevance, to be used in a custom Web Report or an API query. An Analysis runs in Client Relevance.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to do - the systems that still need a reboot will be relevant to the “Restart Needed” tasks from the BES Support site.
If you want an Analysis property to show the pending restart,the client relevance for that is just
pending restartHi Jason;
I’m trying to create a report that shows the client machines that still has “pending restart” status and ones that are “completed” status which means that they have already been restarted.
We deploy Microsoft windows patches to our servers and would like some type of report that shows a status of whether they have been restarted or not.
Is there a relevance script that can do this? Thanks.
Hi Jason;
I created the Analysis report with pending restart in the client relevance field. The report shows True/False values where I thought it “pending restart” or “completed” would show.
Ok I think you should probably be doing this in Web Reports then.
Open the report for “Action List”, then customize it by adding a Column for "Result Count " with “Pending Restart”, and then a Filter for “Action”, “Result Count” “greater than”, “0”, with status “Pending Restart”. That will give a list of the actions and their counts for each result type, but you’ll need to drill-down into the Action to see the individual computers reporting each of those results.
Getting a report of every computer’s status for every action is possible but requires a pure-custom Web Report, where you build the whole HTML that you wish to present using Session Relevance. I expect such a report to be quite slow to load though, especially for a large number of computers / large number of actions. There’s some information on how to do that at https://developer.bigfix.com, or you might wish to engage with our Services group to build a custom report for you. I don’t think we have an out-of-the-box report to retrieve what you’re looking for.
Hi Jason;
Thanks for the instructions which I applied but its not producing the report we need that shows what devices have been restarted (completed) and/or pending restarts.
I am not a developer so I am not sure how to build a pure custom report.
Can the report be customized as a pie graph chart which shows completed and outstanding machines?
Yes, it can, but that’s definitely some custom reporting and development, and would probably need some HTML/CSS/Javascript skills. Send me a private message if you’d like some contact info on how to engage our Services team.
Thanks for the quick response Jason.
Yes, I would like to engage in the Service team which would be very helpful.
Where can I send private message with my info. Thanks.
