Generating Aggregated Job Progress Report - Windows

You can generate the aggregated job progress report for Windows deployment jobs with the "Assets Responded" status. You cannot generate the report for Linux and Mac deployment jobs.

The report is in CSV format. The installed and failed patches details are included in the report. The skipped patches details are not included in the report. 

You can generate the aggregated job progress report only from the Patch Management UI but not by using the API.

This feature is only available for Patch Management users with a trial or full license. 

Consider this

  • You can generate the aggregated job progress report for a maximum of 10 jobs.
  • You can generate the aggregated job progress report for jobs with the "Assets Responded" status only, and the job must include at least one asset.

If you don't select at least one job with the "Assets Responded" status but select jobs with other statuses, such as Disabled, Prepared, Executing, etc., a message is shown that mentions that you must select at least one job with the "Assets Responded" status. 

If you select jobs with other statuses, such as Disabled, Prepared, Executing, etc., and jobs along with the "Assets Responded" status, a confirmation message is shown that mentions that the data will be shown only for patch jobs that include at least one asset, and the status of the jobs is 'Assets Responded'.

Complete the following steps:

  1. Go to Jobs Windows tab, and click View Aggregated Job Progress from the Actions menu for the jobs with the "Assets Responded" status. A confirmation message is shown. Click Continue to proceed.
  2. Click the Download download icon.  icon from the "Aggregated Jobs Progress View" page, and a Generate Report window is displayed. 

    Aggregated Job Report Download.
  3. Enter the name and description of the report.
  4. By default, all columns are pre-selected that are generated in the report. To customize your selection, select only the required check-boxes for the columns that you want to generate in the report. 
  5. Click Generate Report. The Report Generation message is shown, which mentions that the data is downloaded in CSV format. 

    report generation message.

    Irrespective of the report type, that is, Aggregate job report, asset report, job progress report, or patch report, if any four reports are in the "Queued" or "Generating" state, the following message is shown: 

  6. Click the Report List link from the Report Generation message (as shown in above image) to see the report's status. 
  7. Click the Download Download icon. icon from the Actions column on the Reports > Reports tab. Note that the Download icon is enabled only when the report status is Ready. 

    Download report with Ready status.

          The report is downloaded as a zip file. After you extract the zip file, you can see the report in CSV format.