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Machine Changes

Reports > Machine Changes

The Machine Changes page creates a differences report between each machine's latest audit and its own baseline or compares it to the baseline audit or latest audit from a selected machine. Machine changes examined include CPU, RAM, disk space and applications installed.

Configure your report using the following options:

  • Compare with machine's own baseline audit - Displays all machine changes found on each machine by comparing the information from the latest audit against the information from the baseline audit.
  • Compare to select machine ID - Displays all machine changes found on each machine by comparing the information from the latest audit against the audit from a selected machine ID. Use this function to identify differences in a group of machines when compared against the standard for the group.
  • use baseline - If checked, the selected machine ID's baseline audit is used for comparison instead of the selected machine ID's latest audit.

Running the Report

  1. Select the data you want to display in the report.
  2. Enter the title of the report.
  3. Either run the report or export the report to HTML, Word or Excel output.

Share Report / Private Report

These two options only display for master administrators. Reports are always private for standard administrators. As a master administrator select Shared or Private to assign access to a report. By default, Private access is selected. Private reports can only be viewed and run by the administrator that created the report. Shared reports can be viewed and run by all administrators. Saved reports are identified as either private or shared in the left-hand navigation pane.

Save

Click Save to save the current settings.

Save As...

Click Save as... to save the current report under a new name.

Rename...

Click Rename... to rename the report.

Delete...

Click Delete... to delete the report.

Enter title displayed on report header

Enter the title that displays at the top of the report.

Update

Reports are saved with the Machine ID / Group ID filter settings that were current at the time the report was first saved or last updated. These saved or updated filter settings are used when a report is run, regardless of the current machine ID/group ID filter settings. Once a report has been saved, the Update button displays just below the field used to enter the title of the report. Click Update to apply the latest machine ID / group ID filter settings to a saved report. The machine ID / group ID filter settings of a saved report can be overridden using Schedule Reports.

Run...

Click Run... to run the report using the report options previously selected.

Save the report as HTML, Word or Excel

Click Export... to display the report as HTML, Word or Excel output. If you do not have Excel or Word loaded on your local machine, the page displays as plain HTML.

Remove header from the exported report

If checked, the title, report date and machine filter information do not display at the top of the exported output.