Working with VCA software baselines ?

[Mikael Rönnbäck]

Hello. I thought I'd check if anyone has any ideas on this. Since there are several new drivers out that are not present in the 7.10A baseline package, and also since the package does not include firmware updates, and we have had some serious performance issues related to older drivers/firmware on especially 6xxx controllers with 1,6+ terabyte diskvolumes, I was looking for a way to have outdated versions reported and was testing out creating a custom software baseline.

In principle this works fine, however I do have some questions,
1. is there no way to edit an existing software baseline instead of having to create a new one every time you need to change it (especially in the testing period this is rather tedious) ?
2. is the only way to delete an existing software baseline to delete the xml file from the repository and rescan it ? There seems to be no gui for this function, only for adding new baselines.
3. I create a new baseline and select the default HP 7.10A W2K3 baseline first, to "copy" the settings from it, this preselects all default settings and then I can just add the newer drivers manually and remove the outdated ones. However, when selecting this new baseline as source for a testserver it does not work as expected.
Instead of flagging the new components as "yellow" it only flags a few of them as yellow, and instead removes the other ones entirely. It also removes a few of the packages not even touched, so instead of a "HP+custom settings" baseline I end up with a custom baseline that actually checks less than the HP default pack does ?
I'm a little bit confused why exactly this happens ?

[Rob Buxton]

Not really answering the question but I think if you just don't select a Baseline then it measures against what you have in the Repository.
That might provide a closer match to what you're wanting to see.

[Mikael Rönnbäck]

Hm, I thought selecting the baseline only selected the subcomponents, faster than selecting them one by one, but I'll give it a try in selecting only the stuff I want (which is actually the HP baseline + the newer components ;-)). Thanks.

[Simon Blears]

Mikael,

I am interested in your comment above - "and we have had some serious performance issues related to older drivers/firmware on especially 6xxx controllers with 1,6+ terabyte diskvolumes". From what I can see, this is referring to Windows 2003 servers?

Would you mind emailing me with your discoveries regarding this? My email address is simon.removethis.blears@riotinto.com (with the obvious edit).

Thanks,

Simon....

[Peter Aronsson]

Mikael! Did you find an answer for your no 2 question - how to delete an existing software baseline? I've got a problem that someone have created a new baseline for the 7.10A version when the whole server environment are using 6.30/6.40 version. This causes a lot of warnings that I would like to get rid of by "uninstalling" the 7.10A version baseline......

[Mikael Rönnbäck]

Hello. No, no answer yet, so I just deleted the XML files manually.