Upgrading to SMC 4.0? Clean Slate.....

Current environment is SMC server 3.6.1, with various agents versions running on clients. Running ver 3.5, 3.6 and some older servers
running Solstice Enterprise Agents. As I try to move this environment from the state I inherited from, to something stable, I've run into
multiple stumbling blocks. So looking to upgrade the server, and also the agents to one version. Since the server will be upgraded first,
I'm assuming that the 3.5 and 3.6 agents will be able to communicate with SMC 4.0 Server. Will the Solstice Enterprise Agents continue
to work? For the client agents, plan on moving them to 4.0 by removing the current agents and install fresh with 4.0, with the exception of the older 2.6 systems running the Solstice agents. Just sending this out to see if this is the course to take and if anyone ran into any bumps
along the way?
Thanks.

Found my answers:
Sun Management Center 4.0 software is compatible with the following software:
Any Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1, v2, v2 usec, and v3 entities, regardless of the Operating System and architecture.
Solstice Enterprise AgentsTM software for Solaris 8, Solaris 9, and Solaris 10 Operating System versions. Solstice agents can coexist with Sun Management Center agents on the same host system if you configure the Solstice agents as subagents of the Sun Management Center agent. See Configuring a Legacy SNMP Agent as a Subagent of an Agent.
Sun Management Center software does not offer the following features:
Backward compatibility with the Solstice SyMON 1.x software
SunVTS support in the Sun Management Center 4.0 software

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