Generating Reports

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Reports enable you to manage your systems for patch and incident management.

You can check for new patches, and security advisories. You can get a general report, or test a host or installed package for available fixes. You can search for specific Solaris patches by their CVE IDs.

You can also get the history of patches that are installed and uninstalled.

Types of Report

The following reports can be generated in Sun xVM Ops center:

• Baseline Analysis Report: Baselines pertain only to Solaris hosts. Solaris baselines appear as a category in the Components list. The Solaris Baselines category contains a list of dated baselines. For more details about Solaris baselines, refer to Using Solaris Baselines. When you install the patches of a baseline on a host, that host is considered to be compliant with that baseline. In this report generation, you can select either the baseline directly or the profiles. You can also select the White Lists and the Black Lists. According to the conditions selected, the report is generated which lists the host that are installed with the baselines and the baselines that need to be installed for compliance.

• Incidence Compliance Report: Incidents are the fixes that are available for an application or feature. Incidents comprises a set of packages to be installed. This report provides information on the incidents that should be installed, or already installed incidents on the different hosts.

• Package Compliance Report: This report provides mapping between selected incidents and hosts to find out whether the updates have been installed on the hosts. The result of this report is the selected packages and the number of hosts that are installed with the latest updates or the number of hosts yet to be updated for the new updates(depending on the compliant status).

• Jobs History: This report provides detailed history of the install and uninstall operation details completed by Sun xVM Ops Center on the managed hosts.

• Service Pack Compliance Report: This report provides information on incidents created by the publication and release of a service pack by a vendor. This helps to find out whether the hosts have the latest service packs released by the vendor.

• Host Compliance Report: This report provides information on the hosts that are complaint or not compliant to security and bug fixes incidents.

• Incidents Report: This report provides basic information of all known distribution and local incidents. This report does not indicate whether your hosts are compliant with the incidents. It provides information about incidents of filtered categories and types, or a complete list of incidents for a distribution.

• CVE Compliance Report: Common Vulnerability and Exposure Identifiers (CVE IDs) are unique, common identifiers for publicly known information security vulnerabilities. The patches and packages from a list of vendors are published as common vulnerabilities and security exposure incidents. CVEs are identified by CAN (candidate) ID. This report provides information on incidents that are related to specific CVE IDs and the hosts that should have these incidents installed.

Wizards are created for each report. Follow the steps in the wizard to create the reports.