how to get version?

[jhill5.5]

We recently updated 11.3 SP1 Incr1 to 11.3 SP1 Incr3 with a post-Incr3 hotfix.  Build number should be 158.  We thought we'd upgraded everything - clients, agents, scheduler and app server, but we're continuing to experience a known bug in incr1 (app server hangs when contacting an agent that has communication.manager.dynamic.modifications.lock=true in the agentparm.txt file).

 

autoflags -i has always been my go-to command for version info but I believe that it only reports the build number of the client, rather than the agent, application server or scheduler.  After we ran our install, the build number reported 158.  Success.

 

I believe cybAgent -v returns a build number of the agent, though it doesn't seem to map to the autoflags build number.  After our install, this command reported Version R11.3, Build 245. I don't know what this number means.  It's higher than the build number we're looking for but it doesn't mention SP1.

 

The best I could find for the two daemons was to run the strings command.  Is there a better way?

 

strings as_server returned 11.3SP1INC157, which means it has everything except the post-hotfix patch.  This should be enough to resolve the lock=true hang.

strings event_demon returns lots of rows that mention 158-INC3Hotfix.

[Mark_Hanson]

We reviewed this offline, but for the benefit of others in the community:

 

autoflags -a will return version information for the scheduler, app server and client.

 

For example:

 

$ autoflags -a

546 SOLAR ORA 11.3.5 INCR2 84f9fe52 sun11 sun11

 

Above we can see that on host sun11 this is an 11.3.5 Incremental 2 instance on Solaris using Oracle. The build number is 546.

 

You can also get version information for some binaries using the -x flag. Some examples:

 

$ as_server -x

11.3.5.INCR2.546

 

$ event_demon -x

11.3.5.INCR2.546

 

$ autorep -x

11.3.5.INCR2.546

 

The agent (aka SystemAgent ... aka cybAgent) uses a separate version scheme. It is not related or tied to the scheduler/app server release level.

 

Note: The latest agent release, currently Service Pack 4 can be used with any 11.3.x scheduler release.

 

Here is an example of retrieving the agent version:

 

$ pwd

/opt/CA/WorkloadAutomationAE/SystemAgent/WA_AGENT

-bash-3.00$ ./cybAgent -v

CA Workload Automation Agent

   for SUN Solaris 32-bit

   Version R11.3, Service Pack 1, Maintenance Level 1, Build 413

 

 

Enabled plug-in(s):

- runner

- router

- filemon

- objmon

- filebrowser

- ftp

 

 

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