Registry entry for HP Foundation agent version

[Timothy McCarthy]

I'm trying to script an installation to the point where I can check the version of the HP Foundation agent, and install only if it is not the most up-to-date version that we're using. I know in version 7.8 there is an agentver.dll but this isn't user readable. I have been unsuccessful in finding a registry entry with the version info. If anybody knows of a scriptable way to find the version, I'd love to know. Thanks!

[Rob Buxton]

Why not just let the PSP installation do it?

The cpnnnnnn.exe packages will check whether they're need installing or not.
The PSP packages them all together.

[Timothy McCarthy]

We're bypassing the PSP for a number of reasons, but primarilly we're doing a number of other administrative tasks outside of the basic agent install in this deployment script (creating a HP SIM user with operator privileges for use with SMH, creating a local group for that use if it doesn't exist, cleanup, etc). In any case, we were able to identify a registry key for the 7.8 Insight Management agent version under the following location:

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\1A10F96865DB67847\InstallProperties\DisplayVersion = 7.80.0.0