Tracking Sophos endpoint health

Not all Sophos customers will be using the Sophos Enterprise Management system to track the health of endpoints. We user data mining of endpoints through applications like LANdesk. We also do scripts to check the health of systems. But with this new numbering change we have lost the options to do either.

SophosAV version number changes

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/110781.html

What do others do to track the health of Sophos endpoints?

Does this product change above impact you?

Thanks