Smarts NCM: Checking version of the NCM Report Advisor

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

To provide an accurate method to confirm the version of NCM Report Advisor  

Please Note:  Report Advisor is past EOSL since 2022-01-31.  Uaers that have installed RA prior to this date, may use Report Advisor.  Vmware does not support Report Advisor.

Symptoms:
How do we confirm the version of Report Advisor?

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Cause

There is no VERSION information in the voyence.conf file on a Report Advisor Server.
There is a CURRENT_RAVERSION=0

Resolution

To confirm the Report Advisor version for NCM:
Run these two commands:

source /etc/voyence.conf
grep -oP "version=[0-9.]+" $VOYENCE_HOME/web/conf/web.properties |head -n1

Your result should be: 
version=9.6.0

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:
Low