Updates

The fields in the Updates data model describe patch management events from individual systems or central management tools.

Tags used with the Updates event and search objects

The following tags act as constraints to identify your events as being relevant to this data model. For more information, see "How to use these reference tables".

Object name	Tag name
Updates	update
	status
Update_Errors	update
	error

Fields for the Updates event objects and Update_Errors search object

The following table lists the extracted and calculated fields for the event objects and search object in the model. Note that it does not include any inherited fields. For more information, see "How to use these reference tables".

Object name	Field name	Data type	Description	Possible values
Updates	dest	string	The system that is affected by the patch change. May be aliased from more specific fields, such as dest_host, dest_ip, or dest_name.
Updates	dest_bunit	string	These are derived fields provided by Asset and Identity correlation features of certain advanced applications like the Splunk App for Enterprise Security. They should be left blank when writing add-ons.
Updates	dest_category	string
Updates	dest_priority	string
Updates	dest_should_update	boolean
Updates	dvc	string	The device that detected the patch event, such as a patching or configuration management server. May be aliased from more specific fields, such as dvc_host, dvc_ip, or dvc_name.
Updates	file_hash	string	The checksum of the patch package that was installed or attempted.
Updates	file_name	string	The name of the patch package that was installed or attempted.
Updates	signature	string	The name of the patch requirement detected on the client (the dest), such as MS08-067 or RHBA-2013:0739. Note: This is a string value. Please use signature_id for numeric indicators.
Updates	signature_id	int	The numeric ID of the intrusion detected on the client (the src). Note: This is an integer value. Please use signature_id for human-readable signature names.
Updates	status	string	Indicates the status of a given patch requirement.	available, installed, invalid, reboot_required, unknown
Updates	tag	string	This automatically generated field is used to access tags from within datamodels. Add-on builders do not need to populate it.
Updates	vendor_product	string	The vendor and product of the patch monitoring product, such as Lumension Patch Manager. You can extract this from the fields vendor and product in the raw event data, if available.