Viewing the Security Updates Report

View the security updates report in Autonomous Linux. This report indicates whether the instances are up-to-date on security patches and provides details about associated security advisories.

  • Use filters to refine the report

    Use the Search and filter field to refine the instances listed in the report based on:

    • Name: The full or partial name of the instance you're interested in.
    • Up-to-date: Select this to include instances that have no security updates needed.
    • Advisories/updates: Select this to include instances that require security updates.
    • OS version: The OS version of the instances to report on.
    • Location: The Location of instances to report on.

    View advisories/updates

    For any instance in the list where Up-to-date is No, you can view the associated advisories that apply to the instance.

    From the row's Actions menu (Actions icon), select View advisories/updates.

    This includes each advisory, along with its associated CVEs, description, issue date, and affected packages.

    Download report

    Select Download report to download the full report in CSV, JSON, or XML format.

    Apply updates

    1. Select the instances in the list.
    2. Select Apply updates.
  • Use the oci os-management-hub managed-instance summarize-analytics command and required parameters to return metrics for a compartment of managed instances.

    oci os-management-hub managed-instance summarize-analytics --compartment-id ocid --metric-names  INSTANCE_WITH_AVAILABLE_SECURITY_UPDATES_COUNT [OPTIONS]

    For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the Command Line Reference.

  • Run the SummarizeManagedInstanceAnalytics operation to return metrics for a collection of managed instances.