SIM 4.2 VCR Reporting

[Chris Hill_4]

My first posting - apologies if its been raised before. My question concerns a project I have been given to get a basic report of Firmware\Support Pack levels across a range of Proliants. This report should show currently available levels from a repository and installed levels. I have used the VCA as a starting point and created custom reports in SIM, but haven't found a way of creating a report containing existing firmware\SP levels and recommended levels. Is what I am trying to achieve actually possible?

Thanks in advance

Chris

[Rob Buxton]

Not directly as the information is in two locations.
When you run the VCA it contacts the VCRM and produces the list afresh.

As you're probably aware you can create a report from the Inventory data, include System Name, Product Model and ROM Number you can then sort this by Model.

You'd then need to manually check the ROM Versions available, but this list will at least group the Servers so any mismatches should be fairly clear.

[Chris Hill_4]

Rob,

Thanks for the reply. I guessed this would be the case. What I'm after is similar to the old Version Control Database that CIM used to use but in a reportable format. The end result should show installed levels, available levels with details and severity. This is actually for customer server health reports much akin to the the patch reports available for Unix based systems.

Regards

Chris