Installation guide

Running Patching Reports
VCM uses trends, details, template summaries, bulletins, affected software products, and patch
deployment history to generate patch status reports for Linux, UNIX, and Windows managed machines.
With real-time patch assessment reports, you can generate SQLreports for managed machines that are
assessed against bulletins and affected software products. You can report on the history of patch
deployments using the patch assessment results.
You can generate the following report types.
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Real-time assessment reports by bulletins or products
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Real-time assessment reports by affected software products
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Real-time assessment reports of bulletins and products
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Patch deployment history reports
When you generate reports, you can take the following actions.
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Manually update VCM patching Windows content.
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Run reports when VCM does not have access to the Internet.
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