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Gerdian Bester posted Jan 21, 2022 03:35 AM
How can I report on Red Hat Linux patch vulnerabilities by Errata per division/filter?

I have several divisions in my customers environment. They are separated by using filters. I need to report compliance based on a filter.

This is possible with Windows Patch reports.
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Broadcom Employee Igor Perevozchikov Best Answer

As Rufus Swart mentioned, best way will be to use existing default report (or clone it) and use own custom Org views/Org groups where required Linux computers are added.

Cloning of default report and adding just a filter portion will doesn't work, because "sp_PMLinux_Report_ComplianceByErrata" stored procedure doesn't contain query for filter collection, therefore there will be required to create additional sp_PMLinux_Report_ComplianceByErrata2 stored procedure in database, clone existing default report, modify to use this additional stored procedure and add filter parameter and filter query in cloned report.

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Rufus Swart
Hi Gerdian,

The current built-in reports can only be filtered by the organizational groups, if you want to use the built-in reports you can create a job and task to assign the organizational group membership to a specific group and use that for the filter.

Or clone the report and add the filter portion.
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Gerdian Bester
Hi Rufus & Igor,

Thank you that did the trick. I can now do a compliance report by department.