SIM 7.0 - Software Status Polling doesn't update status

[TrevorT]

According to Jim Goodman, VCA is no longer needed. The baseline is a way of accessing the VCRM and doing comparisons to it, and from there being able to update software.  HPSIM now apparently has SUM built into it - as such, it doesn't need VCA.  It uses SUM to deploy software, and it uses the agents on the servers to get software information.

The point of my post is to show that it may be needed, specifically for SNMP agents, for showing software version.  It can still probably use SUM to deploy.  I don't fully understand SUM.

It looks like Jim wrote a blog about this:

http://worldofinsight.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/hpsim7-setting-baselines-and-software-status/