[pca] PCA Reports

[Martin Paul]

little help wrote:
> Martin,
>    Agreed.  However, as you know management loves charts and percentage
> graphs.  I just need some type of measurable indicator as to how much/often
> we are patching hosts in the environment.  The option you provide below
> seems to be valid but would also become a administrative issue as new
> builds/images would skew the numbers all together.  I am thinking about
> going through the xref file and trying to parse all possible patches for a
> specific version - ie sparc Solaris 8.

You'll end up with a pretty useless number again, as this is a very unreliable 
method to determine applicable patches. But if it's just for management ..

Maybe you should follow Rajiv's advice to use different xref files instead. Then 
run PCA twice, once with a current xref and once with one that's e.g. 6 months 
old. The difference in missing patches could be a good incicator to compare 
patch state between machines. Although I still think that the number alone isn't 
  really significant.

Martin.