How to View Discovered Software Products
This lesson explains the information in the Software Products menu which contains information recovered from workstations and servers, and normalized reports on installation counts. The discovered information in the Software Signatures menu is used for the normalization process.
The Software Products menu replaces the old Software Packages and subsequently the Installed Software menu. This tab has the original menus deprecated, and two new menus added: All Software and Search Installed Software. Both of these menus reference normalized software products and show information in a de-duplicated and consistent fashion.
Software Products Dashboards
Clicking the Software Products menu item displays widgets that contain information on discovered software packages in the environment.
- Top 20 Workstation Products: Count of installations of the top 20 products installed on workstations.
- Workstation Software Version Counts: Number of installed versions of each software product.
- Top 20 Server Products: Count of installations of the top 20 products installed on servers.
- Server Software Version Counts: Number of installed versions of each software product.
All Software
The data view under Registry > Discovered Software > Software Products > All Software displays all identified software product versions listed in alphabetical order. The user can drill down into installation counts to view the records used in the aggregate calculation.
Search Software
The data view under Registry > Discovered Software > Software Products > Search Software allows the user to search computers for installed software. The Software Product Version scopes filter allows the user to specify installed software records they want displayed.
Using the Scopes to Search for Software Products
Navigate to Registry > Discovered Software > Software Products > Search Installed Software.
To search for installed software in the environment, the user can use the scopes filter located on the right-hand side of the page.
Select Software Product Version to Search
The Software Product Version scope will allow the user to filter the data view so that it only shows the records for the software product version chosen.
The user can add arguments to the filter by clicking the grey plus symbol.
Choose Software Product Versions
- The user can shrink the list of Available items: by typing in the top text box. From there the user can then more easily choose from the Available items by double-clicking, dragging and dropping, or using the arrow buttons to move the desired items to the Current items: list.
- The versions listed in the Current items: list are the arguments that the Scopes filter will use when it is run.
- Click OK to finish and enter the arguments for the filter.
View Results
Once the user clicks the Run button, the data view will display the information based on the Scope selections.