Select the Display tab to specify how you want report results sorted, how much detail you want to include, and how the patch severity should be calculated.
Group by. Select a group by option from the menu provided: Host (default), Patch, Operating System or Asset Group. Your selection affects the layout and content provided in the generated patch report.
See Reading Patch Reports for information on the patch report output and sample report snippets for the group by options.
QIDs that will be fixed by each patch. Select if you want reports generated by this template to include a table of QIDs that will be fixed by each patch.
Available links for each patch. Select if you want reports generated by this template to display links for patches, when available. Note that patch links appear only in the PDF and CSV report formats.
Each patch in the report is assigned a severity (1-5). Specify how you want the severity calculated.
Your options are:
Assigned Severity. (default) Select if you want the patch severity in the report to match the severity assigned to the QID for the recommended patch. For example, if the KnowledgeBase has a QID for MS09-015 with severity 3, then the patch for MS09-015 is also listed with severity 3, even if other vulnerabilities fixed by the patch have a higher severity.
Highest Severity. Select if you want the patch severity in the report to match the highest severity across all QIDs detected for the specified target that can be fixed by the patch. For example, let's say patch MS09-015 fixes QID 90492 (severity 3), QID 90397 (severity 4) and QID 90342 (severity 5). If all three QIDs are detected on the host, then the patch severity is 5. If QID 90342 is not detected on the host but the other two QIDs are, then the patch severity is 4.