2.5.3.4 Monitor Update Installation - WSUS Administrator

Goal: To generate update installation and applicability reports. How WSUS is implemented determines the type of reports that are generated. Reports can vary between high-level summary reports to detailed reports for a given update or a given computer.

Context of Use: This use case is initiated when the WSUS administrator reviews which computers require updates and which have installation failures.

Direct Actor: The direct actor of this use case is the server management tool.

Primary Actor: The primary actor is the WSUS administrator.

Supporting Actors: None.

Stakeholders and Interests:

  • The primary purpose of the server management tool in this use case is to enable a WSUS administrator to view update installation status reports.

  • The primary purpose of the WSUS administrator in this use case is to determine the health of WSUS and the results of this update distribution strategy.

Preconditions:

  • The update server is operational.

  • The update server has synchronized updates.

  • Computers managed by the update server have completed detection and installation of updates, as described in sections 2.5.3.7 and 2.5.3.8.

Minimal Guarantees: None.

Success Guarantees:

  • Based on the report type, the update server calculates the results of the update installation and applicability and generates a formatted report.

Trigger: The server management tool triggers this use case on behalf of the WSUS administrator.

Main Success Scenario:

  1. The update server collects the raw update events from the data store related to the report that is generated.

  2. Any calculations required to summarize the data are performed.

  3. The results are formatted and displayed in the management tool.

Extensions: None.