[pca] anyone moved to SMC?

[Martin Paul]

amy.rich at tufts.edu wrote:
> Our Sun rep says that they're going to be moving people to their new support
> infrastructure SMC, and I was wondering if anyone was using that and pca and
> if they were still compatible?

While I haven't used an of Sun's enterprise management tools, I'm pretty 
sure that at the lowest level all of them rely on showrev/patchadd and 
pkginfo as the interface to check for installed patches, packages etc.

After all, no higher level tool can cease to work if some admin decides 
to install just a single patch manually with "patchadd 123456-78".

As these are the same interfaces as used by pca, it should not be a 
problem to use pca and any of Sun's patch suites in parallel.

Martin.