In this video I am going to share a Software Management feature that can help your compliance numbers when on the Dashboard in Kaseya VSA.
Step By Step
- When looking at the dashboard within the Software Management module.
- The dashboard will give you a peek into compliance. If you’ve looked at this page before, you may think everything is out of compliance. This is due to compliant settings that, by default, only allow a tolerance of 24 hours from patch release before it is considered out of compliance.
- On the settings page, you will find a section for compliance with some settings. Let’s go ahead and select Edit.
- By default, the scan grace period is 24 hours, and the patch tolerance is 95%.
- Let’s say you patch every 7 days. You can change the scan and deploy grace period hours to allow for a 7-day or maybe even a 14-day window to ensure that machines have time to be online during the window and have time to successfully install those patches.
- So, I’m going to change the grace period to 14 days, which is 336 hours (since the setting is in hours).
- I’m also going to change the patch tolerance to 85%, as I feel that if a machine has 85% of the patches it’s supposed to have, it’s doing good.
- After making these changes, go ahead and select Save.
- The next scan will take these new numbers into account, and your compliance numbers should look better on the dashboard.