Yea, frequent reboots are painful . Could you point me to where in the inventory where Pending reboot operation task is kept? I would assume that the inventory information on this pending reboot root cause, is updated to the last inventory scan runs. Anything after the inventory scan runs, will not be captured until the next cycle.
Going back to the question on "continuation", will the failed patches automatically installed as soon as PC rebooted (or maybe need few more reboots to clear things out)? Or it will wait until vulscan runs at the scheduled interval?