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Web Reports

The Web Reports program can monitor, print, or archive the status of the local database. It allows you to get an overview of your relevant Fixlet messages and any subsequent remediation efforts. You can create charts summarizing the number of administered computers in your network and your overall vulnerability status. In addition, you find comprehensive statistics and a list of the most common issues detected. You can drill down into these commonly relevant Fixlet messages at any time to see them in greater detail.

Web Reports also has the ability to read the databases of other BigFix Servers and aggregate the data. This offers you a top-level view of a large or far-flung enterprise with multiple database servers. Aggregation servers allow you to view information from multiple networks with hundreds of thousands of computers.

You can view the data in the database from several different points of view and save or print the output. You might also export the output to Excel for further manipulation. These features are provided by the BigFix Web Reports program, which can be run at any time from the desktop by selecting Tools > Launch Web Reports . You must supply your credentials to log in. When you do, you are shown the introductory panel:

There are three main links at the top of the panel.

• Explore Data: Click this link to look at a group of predefined reports and charts that you can easily filter and customize. This section provides you with an instant overview of the most basic data managed by BigFix , including Computers, Actions, Operators, and more.
• Report List : Click this link to get a look at basic reports organized around your Fixlet content. Create and customize reports with a simple, intuitive interface. Some commonly-requested reports are built-in, such as Operating System Distribution and Vulnerability Trends. Select them for display by clicking their titles in the list. You can create your own custom reports and save them as either public or private (viewable only by you). Your public reports are added to the reports list; your private reports are only available when you log in with a correct password.
• Administration: Click this link to gain access to various administrative functions, including scheduling activities, managing filters, operators, database settings, and users.

In addition, there are two report categories to get you started.

• Starred: This link takes you directly to favorite reports that you have flagged as starred.
• My Authored: This link takes you to a list of those reports you personally created.

Depending on your configuration, there might be more categories available from this startup panel.

Here is a snippet of a typical report, summarizing the computers in your network by their properties. To produce this report, simply click Report List then select Computer Properties List .

Web Reports can be viewed at any time from the Console under Tools > Launch Web Reports .

Any Web Report server can be set up to aggregate data from the other BigFix Servers. Talk to your Site Administrator about setting up an aggregation server. Refer them to the Administrator's Guide for further information.

The Web Reports interface is very rich and its complete documentation is beyond the scope of this guide. For more in-depth information, see the Web Reports Guide .

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The filter is incredibly useful for sorting through computers. A filter works by either a conjunctive (all) set of properties or a disjunctive set of properties (any). 

• From the Web Reports home page, select Explore Data from the top menu
• In the initial drop down box, select "Computer"
• Windows : "Installed Applications - Windows"
• macOS : "Installed Applications - Versions - Mac OS X"
• Two more fields will appear: another drop down and a text field. The drop down lists the search operator ("contains", "does not contains", etc.), and the blank field will contain the value you are searching for
• Leave the "contains" field as "contains".
• Enter the name of an application, such as "Chrome" for Google Chrome.
• Press Apply Filter
• All computers with Chrome installed will appear below
• Add any additional filters to narrow your results

Modify Table Columns

To view the "Installed Applications" column in the table, you will need to add the associated property. To do so, follow the below instructions:

• Click "Edit Columns"
• Under "Available Columns", enter in the name of the property you would like to add (e.g. "Installed Applications - Windows" or "Installed Applications - Versions - Mac OS X")
• Check the checkbox next to your chosen property
• In the "Current Columns" section there will be a "+" sign next to the name of the property. This plus sign controls whether all apps are listed or just the ones we were searching for. If you click the "+" sign it will turn to a "-" sign and show just the Chrome app for every computer in our list.

WEB Reports API content structure

The Web Reports API is based on HTML and XML, with a new interface based on SOAP.

The XML defines hooks into the console or Web Reports and it has a single primary section that holds HTML.

The HTML section in turn can contain anything that a browser can render. In addition to the basic browser environment, there is a library of JavaScript hooks available to provide access to various functions.

The content that is embedded in the HTML section is typically a mix of JavaScript, HTML, Flex, and Relevance expressions that are evaluated with the JavaScript function EvaluateRelevance . As soon as they are received, the results of the evaluation are embedded directly into the page and shown in the custom Web Report.

Web Reports markup is passed through a pre-processor that recognizes Relevance tags. The Relevance language uses a special class of inspectors called Datastore Inspectors that can help you query and aggregate statistics on your data. These Relevance expressions are evaluated and the tag is then replaced by those results. You can also use JavaScript to evaluate Relevance and for other document object model manipulations.

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Creating a Custom Report

This page lets you create a custom report. A report like this is actually code that generates a printable report.

It typically consists of HTML with embedded Relevance and JavaScript commands. You can choose to make this report public or private.

To create a custom report:

• There is a Filter box. Set it to apply to just the subset of data you want your custom report to be based on.
• Fill in the text box by specifying the full report request. For example you can specify to list the names of your BigFix computers as follows: <div>Computer Names</div> <?Relevance names of bes computers?> Note: In the corresponding XML file this information is displayed in the character data ( CDATA ) block of the Data tag
• When you like what you see, click the Save Report button to add your custom report to the list.

When in the list you can change its visibility, label it, and schedule it, as with any other report. The following section describes in more detail how to create a custom Web Report using XML.

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Custom Report Template

Afternoon All,

I am new to BigFix and I have a request to create a custom report template to query one or more computers and receive a list of patches installed and the date they were installed.

I tried using the Critical Patch Compliance Report and it does give me some results but not date installed unless i drill down into the fixlet and filter.

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.