Summary

How to obtain VisiBroker version information
How to obtain VisiBroker patch information
How to obtain VisiBroker hotfix information
Which patches are installed?
Which hotfixes are installed?

Environment

VisiBroker 8.5
All supported platforms

Question/Problem Description

This article describes how to determine the version of VisiBroker installed, along with the version of any hotfixes.

Resolution

VisiBroker provides the "vbver" utility to obtain version information from a VisiBroker binary file. This version information includes any hotfixes applied to that binary.

The vbver usage information is as follows:

Usage:
vbver [options] [filename]

Options:
  -u: Print usage
  -h: Help, same as -u
  -v: Print product version
  -V: Print product version (with build number)
  -a: Print all information - version, build_date, ...

Examples:
  vbver -a vbroker/lib/vbj30.jar
  vbver -v liborb.a
  vbver liborb.so
  vbver vbroker/bin/osagent

To obtain version information for every hotfix installed, please run vbver against all libraries. For example, on Windows please run the following command:

for /R %VBROKERDIR%\\ %F in (*.dll, *.jar) do (vbver -a %F) >> vbver.log

Similarly, on Unix systems, please run the following:

find $VBROKERDIR/lib -name '*.jar' -o -name '*.so' | xargs vbver -a >> vbver.log

The above two commands produce a text file "vbver.log", which contains the version information.