I’ve got a group of machines that a manager wants to be able to check the current patch levels on.
I’ve created a manual group in the console that contains the machines. Have gone into web reports and created a filter that contains that group and only includes the site Patches For Windows.
Problem is when I go into the filter and I click on a machine I get all of the retrieved properties, client settings, relevant fixlets, action results, analyses and comments.
I only want to see relevant fixlets in this filter. I cant figure out how to remove the other information. It’s just going to confuse this guy.
The filters in web reports filter the underlying data that the report displays, but it doesn’t filter the display appearance of the report.
My suggestion is to make your manager some pre-defined reports that show data you want him to be able to see (for instance a computer properties report with specific data that you have chosen). Then you will tell him how to find the report and look only at that report so he doesn’t get confused. Alternately, if you have needs for custom report layouts, you can think about creating a custom report (although this might be too much effort for what you are looking for).
Also, as a note, you can create a web reports user and restrict his user to only see computers in your manual group. This will help simplify which computers that he sees without the need for him to apply filters manually.