How to do VCA functionality verification

[ElleT]

I am in the process of upgrading all VCA to latest version 7.3.5.0 on all servers accross the organization.

Is there an easy way to verify if the installations are working?

I can query SCCM and verify the version installed. But how can I assure it actually works and loads the data properly from the repository?

i.e. for a small number of servers, I can just load the Version control page and check if the agent is loading any data. But I need to be able to do this for 30-50 servers at a time.

Any suggestions?

[laksh_1612]

VCA functionality can be checked by opening HP SMH/VCA console url (Ex: https://servername:2381) from HP VCRM server. VCA need to be configured to point to VCRM server in order to see the list of Installed softwares versions and latest versions available.

[ElleT]

Hi!

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, this is fine, as I mentioned, it's easy to do a check for one server. Load the HPSMH and check the VCR tab to see if it loads any data.

My question is how to do that for 30-50 servers at once?

Is it possible to make some checks in HP SIM? Run some sort of script? some sort of query?

Any help is appreciated.

thanks

[Andrew_Haak]

One way is to use HP SIM and configure the baselines you need to hold against your servers! Do you know how?

The problem with this i that you can get false results, the other way could be done with HP SUM, load your SPP baseline and scan youf servers, this can be done remote with a set of servers.