topic Consolidated report for VCA in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Consolidated report for VCA

Michael Felkins — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:44:11 GMT

Is there a way to collect all the VCA data into a report.? That is, what versions are on my servers, what is the baseline and what is available for each server in a collection? My mangement wants a roll up report on every server in our datacenter. (Thats over 500 servers) Or is this scriptable and if so how?
I use VBScript a lot so of course that would be best for me.

Re: Consolidated report for VCA

Rob Buxton — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:30:14 GMT

Not easily due to the way the VCA works.

When you connect, I believe it checks the baseline and produces the overall list on demand. This is not in the database.

You can pull reports of software from the database but it will only list what it reported the last time the data collection ran. It won't report against a baseline.

The overall SW status may be in the database.
Also the baseline file used may be recorded - although it'll probably just identify the XML file.

Re: Consolidated report for VCA

Michael Felkins — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:33:16 GMT

Thanks for the reply. I have gathered that it is not easy. The software report does give me a snapshot of where the servers are now. It seams to me that we (my company) are not the only ones out there that want a consolidated reportof this nature.

Re: Consolidated report for VCA

Michael Felkins — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:33:36 GMT

Re: Consolidated report for VCA

Rob Buxton — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:00:02 GMT

Most of the efforts are more about reporting against patches etc. that contribute to vulnerabilities rather than the level of various drivers and firmware.

In that case there are more sophisticated tools to do that.
But, you start paying for that functionality.

There is a Vulnerability and Patch management add-on to HPSIM, but it costs.