Owner's Manual

154 Software Updates
3 Clicks the Update Package name in the left-hand pane to view a summary
of its contents in the right hand pane.
4 Clicks the Compliance tab, then selects a specific group of devices (or a
query) against which she wants to check the package.
NOTE: Starting with IT Assistant 8.2, Jane can retrieve a compliance report
by selecting Tools Compliance Tool. She can click Open or Save from the
File Download dialog box to either save the file to a location of her choice or to
view the report as a Microsoft Excel file.
5 Clicks Compare to check the devices she selected against the contents of
the update package.
IT Assistant performs a comparison and generates a compliance report
that shows a graphical presentation of the differences, full version
information on the selected devices, and other information that can help
identify non-compliant systems or devices.
Jane can use the compliance report to find which systems on her network
are compliant, and accordingly run update packages on those systems. Or
she may just want to keep a record of what update packages were available
in a quarter/year.
6 If IT Assistant finds systems or devices that need updating, Jane can select
the devices she wants to update and click the
Update button. This action
automatically starts the
Software Updates task wizard.
For more information on the software updates task, see "Using Software
Updates" on page 168.
NOTE: Jane cannot apply updates on the system running IT Assistant. To apply
updates on this system, she should run the software updates from another system.