Are there any queries/reports/SQL queries you use to show all the patches installed on a list of servers? (LANDesk 9 SP3)
If I right click on a single server in the console and go into Security and Patch info, click on "All Installed", it lists all the patches installed for that server. But there is no real way of creating a query or report that will give me the same information for one server or a specific list of servers. I contacted support and showed them, the Reporting prompts for AD groups or it lists everything in the landesk database, servers and pc's and takes forever to run. If the report does come up, it does not export to excel very well, (does not list the actual computer name of the server). Have to export using xml, then go thru and manually edit the xml spreadsheets.
Currently i have a query that shows "Vulnerable for patches", and filters on a grouping, this works well. But after patching a server, rebooting it, and scanning it again, it only falls off of the "Vulnerable for patches" query, and we have to go into each server to validate the patch actually installed. With over 500 servers to patch this is not very efficient. LANDesk support stated they are not trained on how to create custom reports.
One other question, has anyone figured out a way to get the failed logs consolidated from patching? Currently I go into each server that failed, save the log file to a folder. Then do a find for "failed", and delete everything else out of the text file. From these text files, I then copy and paste the failed listing to excel with the server names, so we know which patch and exe the server failed on, etc, etc.