# Advanced Insights Software Updates "Dashboard"

*Applies to: Patch My PC Advanced and Patch Insights*

*The Dashboard under Software Updates page give you an overview of the data for Software Update health and compliance.*

### Video Overview

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Video Overview of Software Update Dashboard
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### Dashboard Overview

<figure><img src="/files/1L6gnc9vzQggQEUh49G3" alt=""><figcaption><p>Software Updates Dashboard</p></figcaption></figure>

Along the top bar in the this dashboard you get shown the Synchronisation status of the top level Software Update Point, Updates that are Required by 1 or more devices which need deploying, last months update compliance and also the current month update compliance.

### Update Synchronisation

<figure><img src="/files/3KuZu8aeeoczwNwdHOKB" alt=""><figcaption><p>Software Updates Synchronisation</p></figcaption></figure>

In this dashboard we show all the Software Updates Point site and their synchronisation status.  If you have multiple downstream Software Update Points you will see their status here too.

### Updates Requiring Deployment

<figure><img src="/files/kblLfVm8eHUZoLRlJL5V" alt=""><figcaption><p>Updates Requiring Deployment</p></figcaption></figure>

When you click through on this dashboard statistic you get a dashboard with the number of Critical and Security Updates that are not in any active deployments and are required my at least one computer in your environment.  This excludes superseded and expired updates.

### Last and Current Months Update Compliance

<figure><img src="/files/3L7GfdZz54Hwpma0QatK" alt=""><figcaption><p>Last and Current Months Update Compliance Chart</p></figcaption></figure>

On these click through charts you can see a report on the Last and Current Months device compliance against deployed Critical and Security Updates released or revised in that month, this also includes Superseded updates.

On the previous month box you can toggle back to previous months to view the device compliance for that month.

### Scan Cycle Chart

<figure><img src="/files/F1H9xvBSfViS1jze3mFI" alt=""><figcaption><p>Software Update Scan Cycle</p></figcaption></figure>

In this chart it will show us the status of the software updates scan cycle in your in your client estate. So here you can see on the previous day we have 24 devices have failed to complete a software update scan and 459 have completed successfully. If everything is green in this chart, then that means that your software updates scan environment is healthy.

### Computer Compliance

The computer compliance, sorted by default by your least compliant computers from a software update perspective.&#x20;

<figure><img src="/files/7IqebX3srnkJiCM7M5wx" alt=""><figcaption><p>Computer Compliance</p></figcaption></figure>

We have several machines that have not sent in any software update compliance data for a while and so their compliance status is unknown against more recent updates. We can scroll through this list and can expand out the number of records that are being shown to show you a longer list.

### Update Compliance

<figure><img src="/files/pMCn2fccHNvFnH2ITGuK" alt=""><figcaption><p>Update Compliance</p></figcaption></figure>

The final view on the Software Update dashboard is of deployed updates compliance.  This is sorted by the least compliant update.


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