BigFix Report Creation Help

(imported topic written by curth)

I am looking to create a Web Report to help collect “evidence” of the patches installed on systems for change control. The report I am looking for would be a grid report. It would list computer names down the left side. Across the top would be a listing of specific Fixlets/Tasks that the user selected to report on. The body of the grid/report would include either “Relevant”, “Not Relevant” or “Date/Time Remediated”.

This would be an extremely useful report for my company. Would this be useful to anyone else? Is this report something I can create?

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Hey curth,

Will either of these two reports work for you?

http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=865

or

http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=876

(imported comment written by curth)

While both are nice reports, neither are what I am looking for. We specifically need to know which server received which patch and when. Both of the reports that you gave links to only give total numbers. The grid that I described would give me the names of the servers as well as the fixlets with the info (Relevant, Not Relevant, Time/Date Remediated) in the body of the report. I know all of the information exists, it is just getting it into this format.

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Hey curth,

Unfortunately, no report like this currently exists, and it is not a trivial process to create one. This might better processed as a professional services project, or if you want learn the ways of session relevance and make it yourself, i could give you some help with the relevance.

-Zak