Andrew Shine replied on Wed, Feb 18 2009 8:20 AM

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Create a view for your servers that includes a custom html link to :

https://${Nodename}:2381/vcagent

That should take you straight to the Version Control agent web page on the node. I did something similar for the system mangement homepage (you just drop the /vcagent in the url)

smcdonald replied on Tue, May 26 2009 7:52 AM

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If you're using NPM with the UNDP - you can do SNMP MIB polling on the Insight agents on the servers.  You still need to have the HP SIM Version Control Repository (installed on a server somewhere) - but you wouldn't have to manage the system - just set it to download updates automatically.  Then on the servers you set them up to talk to the repository as normal.  The agents will detect updates automatically and update the SNMP MIB - you can poll that guy and trigger alerts from it.

The only downside to this method I have found is that when the server has been updated - the SNMP mib isn't cleared - I think it's just removed - and UNDP sees this as just unavailable and doesn't clear out the value - this means that it still shows as needing an update - although the date polled stays as is - so periodically you need to remove the UNDP MIB poll from that device and re-add it so that it says "no value".  It's a bit of a pain...  but it does work (I created a report to see which UNDP pollers hadn't updated in a while to see which servers to target) - and using the UNDP you can get the health status of the server/temp/disks etc which gives you a really good view of the server hardware.  We ditched SIM ages back and use this exclusively.

Hope that helps you out