HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 156)

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Software Version Status Polling. Use to retrieve software and firmware upgrade statuses from
HP VCA on target systems. Software and firmware inventories are also retrieved from those
systems during this task.
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Replicate Agent Settings. Use to have HP SIM to retrieve Web Agent configuration settings
from a source device and distribute that configuration to target systems through their Web
Agents.
These capabilities rely on the integration of HP SIM with HP VCRM and HP VCA.
NOTE: When software/firmware for a component is not available in the baseline, then it will
be shown blank. If junk or blank values are found to be listed in the Software Firmware Baselines
section, it is because the description for the component is not found by the providers. You can
verify this by going through the Data Collection reports.
The junk values are unique identifiers for the component which do not have descriptions. The junk
values are numbers in sequential order prefixed with a hyphen (-).
Often, multiple components have the same descriptions. Therefore, the component name is prefixed
with a hyphen, followed by the number in sequential order, followed by the component description.
NOTE: With HP SIM Software Firmware Baseline feature, when task is triggered to update the
system(s) to assigned baseline, HP SIM by default uses VCA (Version Control Agent) if present on
target. During update or install of components using VCA, VCA post status back to SIM using http
protocol and port 280. This communication can be configured to use secure https protocol and
secure http by adding following properties in HP SIM globalsetting properties file.
simVCAStatusPortSecured=true
simVCAStatusPort=50000
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