I have a quick question that I believe many others may have wondered as well.
I recently deployed a baseline containing multiple patches across my entire Workstation environment. All patches installed successfully except for one, which is showing a Failed status in the baseline action. This particular action does not require a reboot, and the baseline is still open.
For reporting and compliance purposes, I’d like to understand the following:
If I reissue the same patch as a separate action to the affected machines and it installs successfully, will the original baseline action status for those machines update to Fixed as well? In other words, will the baseline re-evaluate relevance and reflect the successful remediation, even though the initial attempt failed?
Since the baseline action is still open, BigFix will continue to evaluate the relevance of each component within the baseline. If you deploy the same patch as a separate action to the affected machines and it installs successfully, the relevance of that component will become false.
As a result, when the baseline re-evaluates, the failed component will be marked as Fixed.
@vk.khurava is correct but you need to make sure to get it deployed before the baseline deployment expires or is stopped. I don’t believe it will update once stopped or expired.
Indeed, after reapplying the failed fixlet as a standalone action, its status within the baseline changed to “Fixed”, while the original action deployed through the baseline remained open, as @D.Dean rightly pointed out.