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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 Reports
The following reports can be generated in Sun xVM Ops center:
- Baseline Analysis Report: Baselines pertain only to Solaris hosts. The Solaris Baselines component contains a list of dated baselines. For more details about Solaris baselines, refer to Using Solaris Baselines. This report helps to check the compliance of the hosts against the newly released baselines (as and when they are available in the Sun hosted tier). You can create two types of baseline report: Agent based report and Database based report. Agent based report runs as a simulated job on the host. The missing patches and dependency for the patches are resolved and the required patches are also downloaded. In the database based report, the report is generated based on the information available in the database of the management server. Database based report takes less time than the agent based report because the dependencies are not checked and are not resolved. You have to create a compliancy job to know the dependencies and notifications.
- Incidence Compliance Report: Incidents are the patches that are available for an application or feature. An incident applies to one or more packages or RPMs. You can generate details of the incidents on the managed host that are compliant or not compliant to the latest released version.
- Package Compliance Report: This report provides the details of the selected packages on the managed host that are compliant or not compliant to the latest recommended version available.
- 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 compliant or not compliant to security and bug fixes incidents.
- Distribution Update Report: This report provides basic information of all known distribution and local 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.
- Firmware Compliance Report: You can run a Firmware Compliance Report against one or more servers by using a firmware profile. This is useful to see which firmware images are compatible with your systems.
To Generate a Report
To generate a report, click the Reports button in the Update Module, then select the desired report.
Wizards are created for each report. Follow the steps in the wizard to create the reports.
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