Welcome to the new vCenter Update Manager PowerCLI forum!

[admin]

Welcome to the new vCenter Update Manager PowerCLI forum! We are excited to have you here and are looking forward to receiving feedback from you on your use of PowerCLI and suggestions on how we can help you in your Update Manager automation efforts.

\- The vCenter Update Manager Team.

[corpsolv]

So as of today, are there any working scripts for synching (Export/Import) of baselines between VUMs? I have seen a few on the PowerCLi forums but they seem to only work with different versions and have gotten different feedback as to the effectiveness etc.

Are there any supported scripts or methods for doing this?

[bbambalova]

Here on the community you can find two scripts for this purpose. The first one works with the first version of Update Manager – PowerShell Library.

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9471

And the newer version of the same script can be found here:

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11973

It works with Update Manager PowerCLI 4.0.

For what Update Manager version you are looking a script? Did you try with them? Could you give more details about the script you need?

[tiwasun]

Is there a script for ESX 3.5 environment which I can run and get information on current patch list on all esx host and then compare it against the baseline and find what is missing.

Thanks in advance for your help

[RvdNieuwendijk]

From the vCenter Update Manager PowerCLI Release Notes:

"Update Manager PowerCLI 4.0 Update 1 works only with Update Manager 4.0 Update 1."

So I am afraid you have to upgrade first to VMware vSphere 4.0 update 1.

There has been a VMware Update Manager snap-in for an old version of the VI Toolkit. But that doesn't work with the current version of PowerCLI.

Regards, Robert

[LucD]

If you're willing to use VI Toolkit 1 and the old Update Manager snapin you can use the first script Biliana listed.

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