Operating Systems report

The Operating Systems report includes information about the operating systems installed on devices with an active Secure Endpoint Agent.

On the Reports page, you can access this report from Absolute view or the Device category. You can also access it from the Operating Systems widget on the Dashboard.

The Operating Systems report applies to all supported devices.

By default, the following filter is used to generate this report:

Agent status is Active

The Operating Systems report includes a default collection of device information organized in the following columns:

Column Description
Device name

Device name, which includes the device's device name The name assigned to the device in the operating system. For Chromebooks, device name is not applicable and therefore shows as "Chrome" in the Secure Endpoint Console. and serial number The identification number assigned to the device by the device manufacturer. For Windows devices, this value may correspond to the serial number of the BIOS, the motherboard, or the chassis, depending on the manufacturer.

To view the device's Device Details page, click the linked device name.
Name Name and version of the operating system
Version Version of the operating system
Release ID The 4 digit code (YYMM) representing the release date of the operating system version
Platform Type Name of the device platform, such as Windows or Mac
Last connected The date and time when the device's component manager The component manager (also known as CTES) is installed on top of the core agent and manages the agent components responsible for initiating device actions and collecting device data. Most agent components are controlled by policies, such as the Hardware and Installed Applications policies. The component manager typically connects to the Absolute Monitoring Center every 15 minutes, at a minumum, to send device data and receive instructions. last connected successfully to the Absolute Monitoring Center
Username Username of the user who was logged in to the device when an agent connection occurred. If no user was logged in during the most recent agent connection, the last detected username shows.

You can use most of the device information as search criteria to search for a device, or a group of devices. You can also include other device information in the report, such as custom fields, by adding more columns. To refresh the report's data, click in the page footer.

If No Data shows in a column, the information was not detected on the device.

How frequently is data collected from a device?

By default, the report data is sorted by the Device name column, in ascending order. You can change the sort order by clicking a column heading.

You can perform the following tasks on the Operating Systems report:

Depending on the Absolute licenses associated with your account, and your user role, you may be able to perform some or all of the following tasks on the devices in this report: