HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Related procedures
• Setting protocols and credentials for a system or groups of systems
• Setting protocols for a single system
• Setting global protocols
• Deploying OpenSSH to multiple systems using RDP
• Installing OpenSSH
Related topics
• Global protocols
• Configuring or repairing agents
Learn more: Install Linux PSP or ESX Agents
• Linux PSP or ESX Agents Are a collection of SNMP agents used by HP SIM to gather information
from managed systems and send traps to HP SIM.
• HP ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) A set of HP software components that have been bundled together
by HP and verified to work with a particular operating system. A HP ProLiant Support Pack contains
driver components, agent components, and application and utility components. All of these are verified
to install together.
You can download Linux PSP or ESX Agents manualy from the Support & Drivers at http://
www.hp.com/servers/swdrivers.
Related topics
• Global protocols
• Configuring or repairing agents
Learn more: Installing the Version Control Agent
In HP SIM, the software status indicates both the availability of software updates and how critical they are.
If HP VCA is installed on the system, clicking the software status icon for that system displays HP Version
Control Agent Software Inventory page.
To update managed servers with the most current software, HP SIM provides software update capabilities
that use the HP VCA and HP VCRM .
For Windows operating systems, install the HP Insight Management Agent 5.40 or later to obtain any
inventory data. For Linux operating systems, install HP Server Management Application and Agents (hpasm
RPM) 7.00 or later to obtain any inventory data. Install the current version that is in the same HP ProLiant
and Integrity Support Pack as HP VCA.
NOTE: If the Insight Management Agents are not installed, HP VCA cannot collect software inventory .
However, HP VCA install software.
HP Version Control Agent
The HP VCA is an HP Insight Management Agent installed on a system that enables you to view HP software
and firmware installed on the system. You can configure: HP VCA to point to a repository managed by HP
VCRM , enabling easy version comparison and software updates from the repository to the system where HP
VCA is installed.
HP VCA provides version control and system update capabilities for a single HP system. HP VCA determines
system software status by comparing each component installed on the local system with the set of individual
components or a specified ProLiant or Integrity Support Pack listed in HP VCRM. While browsing to HP VCA,
you can update individual components or an entire ProLiant or Integrity Support Pack by clicking the install
icon located next to the system software status icon.
Configuring or repairing agents 319