Fixlet Release Dates / Modification Dates

Usage and Config Platform
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(imported topic written by BenKus)

Hi everybody,

A commonly requested feature in BigFix was to see the BigFix release dates and modification dates in the console (rather than only the “source release date”). We have added this feature into BigFix 8.0, but you can actually get the same information in BigFix 7.x if you create a custom report with the following relevance (or alternately you can use the Excel Connector):

Fixlet Modification Times

<?Relevance trs of (td of name of it & td of name of site of it & td of (if exists source release date of it then source release date of it as string else "n/a") & td of (if exists mime field "x-fixlet-first-propagation" of it then date (local time zone) of (mime field "x-fixlet-first-propagation" of it as time) as string else "n/a" of it)& td of (if exists mime field "x-fixlet-modification-time" of it then mime field "x-fixlet-modification-time" of it as local time as string else "n/a")) of bes fixlets whose (not custom flag of it) ?>

Note that the formatting is not particularly pretty… You can modify this with Web Reports filters or by modifying the relevance or HTML directly as you see fit…

Ben

Fixlet Name Fixlet Site Source Release Date BigFix Release Date BigFix Last Modification Date
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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Quick notes:

  • The last modification date was the date that we last changed the Fixlet. We started publishing the Fixlet modification date around April 2010 and so you will see those dates for most of the Fixlets (unless they were updated after that).

  • You will sometimes see the source release date be after the first release date for BigFix. The reason this happens is that the source vendor updates their software and their source release date and we use the same Fixlet. An example is the virus update Fixlets, which will have an updated source release date daily, but they have an older BigFix first release date when we started publishing the Fixlet.

Ben