Deployment VIOS Health Checks Dashboard overview

Use the Deployment VIOS Health Checks Dashboard to view the summary of the installation preview results and the inventory list of filesets on the endpoints in your deployment.

You must subscribe to the Patches for VIOS site to access this dashboard from the Dashboards node of this site.

Before you can use the dashboard, you must activate the following analyses:
  • VIOS Preview Deployment Result (ID #77)
  • VIOS Filesets Inventory Result (ID #80)
To access the dashboard, click the Patch Management domain and click OS Vendors > IBM VIOS > Deployment VIOS Health Checks Dashboard.
The Deployment VIOS Health Checks dashboard provides two tabs:
Preview Deployment Results
Note: No data will displayed until you create a preinstallation check by using the Creating preinstallation verification checks.
Ideally, you should run a preview before deploying fix pack updates in your environment. Previews can help to identify potential installation failures without having to run the installation commands. You can use the Deployment VIOS Health Checks Dashboard to review and monitor the results for all previews that were deployed from the Creating preinstallation verification checks.
In the summary section of the Preview Deployment Results tab, a pie chart shows a visual representation of filesets with the following status and property:
  • Failed fileset installations
  • Successful fileset installations
  • Filesets with missing requisites
  • Locked filesets
The dashboard provides a list of names, version numbers, and descriptions for all the filesets that were used in the preview.
You can view the status of the targeted endpoints and the completion date of the preview task from the Preview Deployment System list, which is in the left side of the dashboard. This list also provides the completion date of the preview task.
Figure 1. Preview Deployment Results

Preview Deployment Results
Filesets Inventory
Note: If you open this tab for the first time, click Create Fileset Inventory Action to gather the inventory result every 24 hours.
In the summary section, you can review all the filesets that are in your deployment in a single view. These filesets are arranged according to their current state and include information such as the name, version number, issue date, and fix pack ID.
You can view the targeted endpoints and the date on which the fileset inventory was last gathered from the Filesets Inventory System list, which is in the left side of the dashboard. To view the latest inventory, click Create Fileset Inventory Action or run the VIOS: Generate Fileset Inventory Report task (ID #81).
Figure 2. Filesets Inventory

Filesets Inventory