Report Overview

After the analysis is complete, SWA reports its findings. The types of reports follow.

Table 4-1 Report Overview

Report type	What it reports	How to generate it	Where to find it	Use this report for...
HTML	Comprehensive – includes the Action, Issue, and Detail reports.	Always generated and written to a file -r html for display of HTML source to standard output	`$HOME/.swa/report/swa_report.html` by default The file specified by the `html_report` extended option Standard output when selected with -r	Interpreting analyses as recommended by HP All the information SWA has on the analysis Links to full descriptions of security bulletins, patches, and bundles Links to download patches
Action	Summary of recommended actions	Generated by default to standard output	Standard output by default Included in HTML report	A comprehensive to-do list Patch bundles and patches recommended for installation A list of recommended manual actions
Issue	Summary of issues	-r issue for display to standard output	Included in HTML report Standard output when selected with -r	A list of exposed problems, including those with no SWA recommended solution
Detail	Recommended actions with issue justification	-r detail for display to standard output	Included in HTML report Standard output when selected with -r	A cross-reference of actions to resolved issues 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”.

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.

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