[pca] PCA Reports

[Rajiv Gunja]

I have never used the big number in the (). What I use is the number of
patches missing.

For a give Xref file (which date you downloaded), PCA gives you all the
missing patches for a server to that date.

@ our company, we set dates for each quarter and use only those Xref files
to patch a server in that quarter.

For your needs, pick an Xref file/date and run PCA list on all the servers
and get the number of patches missing for that date.

If you have more than 20, run a script to download the 3 files to a single
server and run listing on that single server, it will be much faster and you
will have a log of before and after patching configuration.

-GGR
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Rajiv G Gunja
Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:13, little help <littlehelphere at gmail.com> wrote:

>     I am running some reports via PCA and had a quick question about the
> "List:" portion of the output that s generated via PCA. I am trying to
> generate a report of missing patches against all possible patches for a
> host.  For example can I get pca to report that I am missing 20 out of a
> possible 200 patches for this host.  I need to report what percentage of
> patches are missing from a host.
>     From the website it states
> *
> "The header includes some general information about the patchdiag.xref
> file, the host (Host:) and the listed patches (List:). The numbers in
> parantheses are the number of listed patches and the sum of their ages in
> days; when listing missing patches, this is a rough indicator of the current
> patch state."
>
> *Can someone clarify what the sum of patch dates is used for?
>
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