Agent compatibility
The following table shows functional areas of the product that require the presence of a particular version of an RSCD agent.
Some organizations do not upgrade all servers at the same time they upgrade other system components. When upgrading from a previous release, you should be aware of server-based functionality that requires the presence of a certain agent version.
Functional area | Specifics |
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Atrium integration (BMC BladeLogic Integration for Atrium) | If you perform a fresh installation of a version 8.3 Application Server, Atrium integration is only possible with version 8.3 agents. If you upgrade an Application Server to 8.3 from an earlier version, Atrium Integration is only possible with agents running an earlier version under the following circumstances:
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BMC Decision Support for Server Automation | For inventory reporting, an agent must be running version 7.6 or later. |
Deploy Jobs |
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Patch management |
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Security | You must be running an 8.1 or later version agent to do the following:
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Server Discovery | Requires an 8.1 or later version Atrium Discovery custom configuration object. |
Virtualization/VSM |
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Configuration Objects | Configuration Objects such as 'Unix Users', 'Processes', 'Hardware Information' and the Virtualization objects require the RSCD agent version to match the application server version for full compatibility. For example, if you are using the VMware configuration object to manager vCenter, and your application server is 8.3.00, the RSCD agent on the vCenter server must also be 8.3.00, and the version of the configuration object deployed to the target would be 8.3.00. Built-in configuration objects (such as Unix Users, Unix Groups, Processes, or Daemons) are part of the RSCD installation. |
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