HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Software and firmware criteria
The software/firmware criteria searches for custom support packs in the selected repository and installed
software/firmware components for matches in the HP SIM database. This enables you to check software
and firmware installed on the target system using the HP SIM database.
NOTE: Information retrieved from the database appears in the language in which it was stored. Data
retrieved from the repository appears in the language corresponding to the browser locale.
NOTE: Searches saved with previous versions of HP SIM are still supported. Searches on HP Support Pack
are not supported and HP Support Pack software components are filtered from the tree data. HP Support
Packs were removed because systems were never returned from a query containing a criteria with HP Support
Packs selected. User-built custom support packs continue to appear in this list. However, previously saved
collections containing HP Support Packs continue to appear.
Software components with no entry for operating system appear under the Other option in the and operating
system is selection, and software components with no entry for category appear under the Other option
in the and category type is selection. This is sometimes the case for software/firmware criterion saved with
older versions of HP SIM, because the saved operating system and category names do not match exactly
with the new operating system and category names in the database.
You can search software and firmware installed on HP-UX systems. HP-UX populates data in HPUX-Product
and HPUX-Bundle tables with information about software and firmware installed on managed HP-UX systems.
The data retrieved from these tables include name, caption, and version of each software and firmware
installed on target machines. A new entry is added to the and operating system is dropdown as HP-UX
Bundles and Products. Two new categories, Bundles and Products, are added in the and
software/firmware is dropdown list. If there is no data in one of these tables, then the category for that
table does not appear. If there is no data from either of these tables, then the operating system HP-UX
Bundles and Products does not appear.
• When comparing against a custom support, the only comparison you can use with the custom support
pack is Equal To. In addition, HP SIM cannot determine whether a custom support pack is actually
installed on a system, only whether all components in a custom support pack are installed on a system.
A system is returned by this search only if every component in the custom support pack is on the list. It
is unlikely that all of the components in a custom support pack are installed on any system, so use these
criteria carefully.
• This criterion retrieves information from the SQL database table that was populated by a Software
Version Status Polling task. This table is also updated when software is installed through the Update
Software or Firmware HP SIM task. Therefore, if software was installed or uninstalled on systems without
using HP SIM and after a Software Version Status Polling task was last run, this search might not return
the correct results.
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