HP-UX Software Assistant Administration Guide (December 2011)

Report overview
After the analysis is complete, SWA reports its findings. The types of reports follow.
Table 3 Report Overview
Use this report for...Where to find itHow to generate itWhat it reports
Report
type
Comprehensive –
includes the
HTML
• Interpreting analyses as
recommended by HP
• $HOME/.swa/report/
swa_report.html by
default
• Always
generated and
written to a file
Action, Issue, and
Detail reports.
• All the information SWA has
on the analysis• -r html for
display of HTML
• The file specified by the
html_report extended
option
• Links to full descriptions of
security bulletins, patches, and
bundles
source to
standard output
• Standard output when
selected with -r
• Links to download patches
• Generated by
default to
standard output
Summary of
recommended
actions
Action
• A comprehensive to-do list• Standard output by default
• •Included in HTML report Patch bundles and patches
recommended for installation
• A list of recommended manual
actions
• A list of exposed problems,
including those with no SWA
recommended solution
• -r issue for
display to
standard output
Summary of
issues
Issue
• Included in HTML report
• Standard output when
selected with -r
• -r detail for
display to
standard output
Recommended
actions with issue
justification
Detail
• A cross-reference of actions to
resolved issues
• Included in HTML report
• Standard output when
selected with -r
• Issue IDs
• Dependencies
• Issues detected with no SWA
recommendation for resolution
• Web addresses for relevant
patch and security issue
information
• Web addresses to download
patches
Issues in ignore files are excluded from all reports. For more information, see “Put appropriate
actions in the ignore file” (page 13).
The contents of all reports are dependent on the analyzers selected.
Report excerpts in this chapter are HTML; the same information is reported in text-based reports.
The HTML report
HP recommends using the HTML report, since it provides all the SWA analysis information available
– it is the compilation of the other reports. This report is always generated and is saved to $HOME/
.swa/report/swa_report.html by default. You can specify your own filename with the
html_report extended option. If you want the HTML report displayed to standard output, use
the -r html option to the swa report command or the swa step report command.
The HTML report begins with the Assessment Profile and then includes the Action report, the Issue
report, and the Detail report. See the following sections for more information on each type of
report: “The Action report” (page 17), “The Issue report” (page 19), “The Detail report” (page 21).
The HTML report also includes hyperlinks to detailed information on the HPSC for every patch and
security bulletin issue found by SWA, plus direct links to download patches.
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