Dashboard

Addresses operational, management, and compliance reporting needs with a graphical dashboard and four standard reports that document patches, patch deployments, patch status, trends, inventory, and more, at individual machine or aggregated levels- to demonstrate progress toward internal and external audit and compliance requirements. You can update the dashboard by clicking the Update Dashboard Report in the Action menu of the Patch Management tab.

The dashboard reporting thread captures daily statistics of the overall percentage of enabled patches that are actually patched on a given day. Initial dashboard reports require at least 24 hours to be generated.

NOTE:To use patch management effectively, customers should disable the patches that they no longer require, so that the daily compliance statistics are based only on patches relevant to their network of devices and the percentage of enabled patches actually patched on a given day.

Patch Compliance: Displays the monthly [or daily] trend of overall compliance for each patch impact category.

Patch Management best practices recommend that an organization should monitor compliance reports over time to ensure that the intended patches are deployed regularly and the patch management solution is being used correctly. Mouse over the trend lines to see the actual calculated percentages for each impact category (Critical, Software, or Optional). Detailed drill-down information showing the individual patched / not patched totals per patch can be seen on the Patches tab of Patch Management.
- Month [or Day]: Time period
- Critical Patched: Percentage of critical patches that are patched
- Optional Patched: Percentage of Recommended and Informational patches that are patched
- Software Patched: Percentage of Software patches that are patched
Mandatory Baseline Compliance: Displays the percentage of device groups that are currently in mandatory baseline compliance.

Establishing a mandatory baseline policy allows the administrator to auto-deploy patches to device groups very quickly and easily, and to ensure that known vulnerabilities do not return when a new computer is purchased or re-imaged. Each group is evaluated as being in mandatory baseline compliance if all enabled baseline patches for that group are currently in a patched status for all group member devices.
- Status: Compliant, Non-Compliant or No Baseline
- Group Count: Number of groups in each state
Patch Compliance By Device: Displays the overall patch compliance of the devices that ZENworks Patch Management is monitoring.

Each device will only be evaluated as “compliant” if it has a patched status for all of the active patches currently available within Patch Management. It is recommended that patches that are not applicable should always be disabled within Patch Management so that this metric can track only the relevant patches for the managed network of devices.
- Status: Compliant or Non-Compliant
- Device Count: Total number of devices in each state
Time Since Last Agent Refresh: Displays the elapsed time since the last refresh cycle for all managed devices within the network.

Within a patch management system, it is vital to ensure that all devices are scanned regularly for missing patches. Even with a regular daily refresh cycle, it is very likely that some laptops or workstations will be offline during any given day.
- Elapsed Time: < 24 hrs, > 24 hrs, > 48 hrs, > 72 hrs
- Device Count: Total number of devices in each category

Button Name	Action
Graph	Displays the details graphically.
Data	Displays the details of number in a table.
Zoom Control	Enlarges a single graph to full page size or reduces it to the original size.

When you click the button, the corresponding graph is in full page size mode, and when you click the button, the corresponding graph is restored to its original size.