I am curious to know if there is an easy way to see if hot fix patches have been installed on a reporting server and web server client. We are preparing to move to new servers (reporting and web) and the systems group wants to do fresh installs. We are on 7.1.3, so to do fresh installs we need to install 7.1.3 and any hot fixes that have been applied but no one seems to know if we have or not.

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Using this will tell you

http://server_name/ibi_apps/about.jsp

? GEN will give you more information. I'm not sure how you determine that a hotfix was installed with either the GEN command or the JSP file.

You can compare the GEN #, Created on, and Version, in the about.jsp to the readme.html in the hot fix package.

Here's the reply I got from IBI:

"Currently there is no connection with the release gen numbers found in the server information that coorelates to a hotfix number(s). I also don't believe that we control any hot fixes within the Web or App servers.

However, one way of finding hot fixes on a server is to check the dates of all of the binary files within the EDAHOME/bin directory. Generally, fixes come within service pack (i.e. 7.12 vs 7.13 where the last number would designate the latest service pack). All the binaries should be of the same date and time since they were all packaged together. A hot fix would show up as a different date/time combo from all other files.

Hot fixes are generally done for emergency situations and would require looking up the history of previous support cases as well as programming projects where these fixes originated from. ..."