"View As Group" with the API to look at missing patches of those computers

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Maybe I’m looking at this wrong, but… figured this is the right place to ask. Looking to automate patches needed by a multiple “computer groups”.

Manually, when I’ve done it. I just highlight the different groups, select “View as Group” and check what microsoft patches are missing and add those to a baseline. But not sure how “view” as a group for checking missing patches through API? I really can’t “check for all machines missing patches” as different groups are different customers and it would be way too many to include for a baseline.

Basically:
→ Get a list of computers from different “computer groups”
→ Query that “view as group” Microsoft patches needed and add them to a baseline that a human can schedule later.

Any thoughts on that “view as group” for api?

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How are you selecting the computers to include in the view? By name? By some property?

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Sure thing. Left side, expand ‘computers > computer groups >’ and highlight a few of them, then as the different computers in those groups show up on the right top paine… I “select all” and do a “view as group”. This way I can see only fixlets needed for ‘that group’ basically.

My goal is to do the API and “view as group” by keywords. Like do a “view as group” for all ‘prod’ or ‘testing’.