Scripting

Hello,

I am a Junior Help Desk Admin, tasked with creating reports for a weekly update for my director. I will admit that I know almost nothing of SQL, so I have been trying to create a report through the wizard that can pull down extensive, in-depth parsed information. I know it is possible, but I would like to ask for some guidance from someone a little more experienced with KACE. I have looked at the KBOXBYKACE and other videos on the support site for using the reporting feature, however they are only looking at the something a little more basic than I want. I have also tried using duplicates of the embedded "tutorial" scripts with tweaks, and it either prints a report that is blank, or a report that contains 0's in the patch name or some other undesirable effect. I will include a list of what I'm trying to do with the database below, but the gist is, for a group of machines defined by a label, I want a report of which machines are not compliant with all active patches with type Security, Impact Critical, and a detect status of NOTPATCHED. If you have a library or other resource that can satisfy my needs and you could point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it. I am also open to WEBEX sessions, etc.

REPORT- Sorted by Device Name, filtered by Label (plan on running seperate reports for each group, all sorted by label)

Detect Status- NOTPATCHED

Patch

Type=Security

Impact=Critical

Status=Active

P.S.

I have also tried sorting through the patch catalog with a Custom View delineating the filters above. I was very successful in narrowing down the list, however when I went to Create Report with the information gathered it would print everything. My initial guess is that I didn't define the filters in the report this way, but I am not sure.

Now I would like to offer a few different trailheads to start from. First, is MySQL database powerful enough to do what I'm asking it to? (through the wizard, I know that commandline would be much more powerful but I am working with what I have here, that includes a very limited KB of MySQL) Would it be easier (although more hands on involved) to print multiple reports and filter them into Excel or another program instead of one heavily modified/filtered report? Also are there any super handy URL's out there for MySQL scripting, assisting with scripting or containing basic template scripts I can modify for KACE, etc?

And as always, thank you in advance for any advice and comments. :)

V/r,

Jeff B.