Most Managers like Dashboards, since they can understand high level summary pretty quickly.
I have investigated on Patch Management Compliance Dashboard, since I did not trust numbers I could see. I am talking about dashboard you can see at:
Home > Patch Management > Compliance and Remediation > Compliance Dashboard
In Use = 14,189
You can look at SW Update Agent reports. I can see 14,166 agents in version 7.5 (latest).
There are about 140 failing upgrade, but I do not think these should be counted.
So that number is close to reality, but not precisely.
Computers with Software Update Plug-in: 800
That is actually misleading, just look at above picture, that we have 14,166 machines.
That Web part is actually calling report Windows Software Update Plug-in Rollout Status
Symantec should correct that in Dashboard: For correct count look at report mentioned above.
Computers not reporting vulnerability analysis: 0
Zero is not correct value.
Use report Exception Handling > No Scan Data Reported
Dashboard does not display proper data, even the same report is linked.
Excluded software releases: 1950
Not sure how that number was calculated:
I have actually enabled some Adobe and some Microsoft, checked in total 229 items
When I enable all, total is 2,204 items.
I do not think that 1950 and 229 is giving 2204 in total.
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I hope it would get all corrected in next product release.
NOTE ON HIERARCHY
In case you have hierarchy enabled, do not use Compliance Dashboard on Parent, it does not display valid data at all.
You may use individual reports instead, but required data have to be uploaded to Parent first.