Email not reporting computer name

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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Hi All,

I have a custom site which, for now, has just one fixlet in. I have also created a Web Report which creates a report on the state of the fixlet in that site. The report displays the Progress, the Name, the Computer and the Relationship.

I have then created a schedule to email the report every 5 minutes (just while I’m testing it) if it has changed. The email also includes the trigger information in the report.

My issue is that when I look at the report in Web Reports it displays the ‘Computer’ as the proper computer name (i.e. blx19ay01). However, in the email, the ‘Computer’ gets converted to the Computer ID (i.e. 13497704).

Is this a bug or am I missing something when I generate the report?

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(imported comment written by MikeOttum)

Hi cidermark,

That is indeed a bug. We have a fix for it that will be included in a patch release that should be out soon.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Mike

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Thanks - I’ll look out for it.

How do you distribute patches? Is it automatic or is there something / somewhere I should be keeping an eye on?

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

Patches, when made available, will appear in your Console as Fixlets. You must take an Action to apply them, they will not get applied automatically.

In v8 you will see patches in the BigFix Management domain.