User`s guide

6. Review all of the bulletins to include in the assessment template.
7. To create a template that includes all of the bulletins for patches to deploy, select all of the relevant
bulletins and click Create Template.
8. Verify that the bulletins are automatically selected, and click Finish to create the template.
9. On the VCM toolbar, verify that the correct Machine Group is selected.
10. Select Patching > Windows > Assessment Templates.
11. In the node tree, select the template to run and select Assess.
12. When the assessment completes, indicated by the Assessment Results pop-up dialog box, click the
Refresh button on the toolbar and view the assessment results in the data grid.
Explore VCM Patching Windows Assessment Results
Data for the assessed Windows machines appears in the data grid for the assessment template. The patch
status is indicated for each machine.
Prerequisite
You must have run an assessment template.
Procedure
1. In the Assessment Templates node tree, select the template and view the results in the data grid.
2. View the Patch Status column to determine the state of each machine for the patches listed.
3. If the assessment results provide multiple pages of data, click the Patch Status column heading and
drag it up to Column Grouping.
4. In the Column Grouping view, expand the Not Patched status to view all of the machines that are not
patched.
5. To display the graphical representation of the patch assessment status, in the template data grid view,
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