Review and Approve Updates
In Action1, you can review available updates, identify missing patches, approve relevant ones, and deploy them to multiple managed endpoints. This functionality helps maintain system security and consistency across your environment.
Tip: Ensure all endpoints are connected to Action1 Cloud. You can verify their status on the Endpoints dashboard.
How to Identify Missing Updates?
To see what updates are missing, you can use any of the ways described below.
Dashboard
If you want to examine the overall statistics for your organization, open the Dashboard. There, you can get a high-level view and then drill down to the details, for example, by clicking on the Missing updates.
The Updates available for deployment on endpoints page is displayed, which you can also open by clicking Update Approval in the navigation pane.
Update Approval View
This view shows the Windows KBs to deploy, as well as patches and updates to third-party software running on your managed endpoints.
- For each pending update, you can examine its severity, version, release date, vendor, and the number of outdated endpoints.
- Additionally, Action1 lists all vulnerabilities the update remediates, as well as the SLA deadline to help you plan your administrative chores accordingly.
- You can click on the list entry to see the names of computers awaiting this update.
Endpoints View
If you want to identify and deploy the updates missing for certain endpoints, open the Endpoints view and select the required endpoint from the list. Then navigate to the Missing Updates property tab to view pending updates for that endpoint:
Tip: You can apply filters, for example, to show only the updates with a certain Severity or Status.
Reports on Missing Updates
Under Built-in Reports | Patch Management reports, you can examine the following ones:
- Missing Third-Party & Windows Updates
- Missing Windows Updates
- Missing Windows Critical Updates
See also: Installed Updates and Reports
How to Approve or Decline Updates?
If your process requires patch review and approval before distribution, you can do it manually or automatically.
Important! Approving updates will not automatically deploy them unless you create an automation to deploy approved updates.
Navigate to the Update Approval page and follow the instructions provided in the Update Approval Workflow section.
What’s Next?
- To install approved updates instantly, click Install Now. To deliver them on the specified schedule, follow the instructions provided in the Automate Patch Management section.
- To instantly review installation results, you can, for example, navigate to the Installed Software view and check the update status.
- You can also examine the information on update installations, for example, in the Weekly Update Summary or Windows Update History reports under Built-in Reports | Patch Management .