<font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Yes, I download Xref File everyday and archive it. Every quarter we use 1 Xref file which is at least 3 months old. And we create a patch bundle on a central server. Have a few wrappers written up to create the bundle and install it.</font></font><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:34, little help <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:littlehelphere@gmail.com">littlehelphere@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Rajiv,<br> When you say you use xref files for a quarter - can you elaborate on how you do this? Do you download and save all xref files on a regular basis and run patch updates against them or use the last xref file for a specific quarter as the "golden copy". In regards to running pca against a specific xref file for my case - I was thinking the same thing. Seems like the only real way to make sure all servers are patched at a certain level. If anyone else uses a different method please feel free to share. Thanks.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Rajiv Gunja <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:opn.src.rocks@gmail.com" target="_blank">opn.src.rocks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
<font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I have never used the big number in the (). What I use is the number of patches missing.</font></font><div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">For a give Xref file (which date you downloaded), PCA gives you all the missing patches for a server to that date.</font></font></div><div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></div><div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">@ our company, we set dates for each quarter and use only those Xref files to patch a server in that quarter.</font></font></div><div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></div><div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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.</font></font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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.</font></font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:13, little help <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:littlehelphere@gmail.com" target="_blank">littlehelphere@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
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. <br> From the website it states <br><i><br>"The header includes some general information about the patchdiag.xref
file, the host (<b>Host:</b>) and the listed patches (<b>List:</b>). 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."<br><br></i>Can someone clarify what the sum of patch dates is used for? <br>
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