HP Network Direr Software Products manual Reports Agent Update Summary report

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During the verifying device properties stage, Agent Update will examine the properties of the device to ensure that it is the expected device. If the device is not what Agent Update was expecting, then the update for that device is skipped.

To verify that a download was successful, Agent Update will read the device details at the end of the update and check that the new software version has successfully changed.

Agent Update Events The alarm source is the IP address of the device and both the severity of the alarm and the alarm message indicate whether the attempt to update the agent was successful. The detail of the message for a successfully updated device includes the previous agent version and the new agent version that is running on the device. For devices that could not be updated, the detail of the alarm message describes what went wrong and suggests possible resolutions to the problem.

Agent Update The following reports are produced by Agent Update.

Reports

Agent Update Summary report

When an Agent Update operation completes, the Agent Update Summary report is automatically generated. You can choose to view the report from the Agent Update Summary dialog box shown at the end of the operation.

The Agent Update Summary report provides the following information:

■A list of the devices that have been successfully updated by the operation. The previous and new versions are shown for each device.

■A list of the devices that could not be updated by the operation. The current and required agent versions are shown for each device. 3Com Network Director will also report a reason for the failure and suggest possible resolutions.