Applications Tab for File Evidence
From the Applications tab of the File Evidence Properties page, you can assign an application to a specific file, for example, the executable and other common files. Assigning this file evidence to an application helps determine specific applications installed on each system.
For more details about using column grouping and choosing columns, see Grouping Items in Lists and Managing Columns in a Table
The following table lists all columns available on the Applications tab.
Column name | Details |
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Added application | This column displays Yes if an operator manually associated an application with the evidence. No is displayed if the application is provided through the Application Recognition Library. To link an application to the evidence, click Search on the Applications tab, select an application the evidence must be associated with, and click Add applications. Remember to Save your changes to the evidence properties. |
Category | The broad function of the application, by default from the UN Standard Products and Services Code. For local applications, this field is editable in the General tab of the application properties. (Additional custom categories can be created in .) |
Classification | The type of software, especially as it relates to licensing (freeware, commercial, component, and so on). Visible on the General tab of the application properties. It is editable only for applications with a Source value of Local. |
Edition name | The edition of an application, as specified by the publisher of this
application.
Note: Many applications do not specify an edition.
Visible on the General tab of the application properties. It is editable only for applications with a Source value of Local. |
Existence rule | When assigning the file evidence to an application, you can choose a
recognition rule that specifies how the evidence is used when determining whether that
application is installed on a computer. File evidence may be ignored for application
recognition, because installer evidence is easily to collect and manage, and gives best
results. You can use file evidence (by using the Existence rule) where:
Note: You can apply an existence rule to the file evidence only.
To select an existence rule to be used with an application, click in the Existence rule column, and select an option:
Example of excluded evidence: Suppose CyberNet Reader is
provided free-of-charge when you install CyberNet Writer. Your enterprise
has the licensed copies of both CyberNet Reader (stand alone) and
CyberNet Writer. When calculating the licensed installations of
CyberNet Reader, the installations where CyberNet
Writer is also installed must be excluded. When defining the CyberNet
Reader application, you can add the file evidence associated with
CyberNet Writer, and assign the Not
allowed existence rule. For example, the rules for CyberNet
Reader may
include:
When FlexNet Manager Suite calculates the number of installations of CyberNet
Reader, it does not count an installation where it also finds the
CyberNet Writer file evidence. |
Flexera ID | A generated code that uniquely identifies all application records, and can be used for integration between products from Flexera. This data is read-only. |
Installed | The count of installations of this application, calculated from evidence matched in the last imported inventory. Not editable. The installed count is recalculated after each inventory import. |
Licensed | This column indicates whether an installed application is linked to at least one license (either Yes or No is displayed). |
Name | The application's name, which may be:
You can edit this on the General tab of the application properties when Local is displayed in the Source column (which means the application was added manually by an operator). |
Product | The basic name of the application, excluding the publisher and references to versions or editions. This field displays the value Multiple products for multi-product licenses that have multiple primary products. See Multi-Product License. Product names are supplied by the Application Recognition Library and are not editable. New product names created within your enterprise are editable in the General tab of the application properties. |
Publisher | The name of the publisher of this software, responsible for its development and distribution. For application records that you create manually, Publisher is editable in the General tab of the application properties. For applications supplied through the Application Recognition Library, the Publisher field is not editable. |
Source | The origin of an application record:
|
Status | Indicates your assessment and processing of an
application. It can have any of the following values:
Editable in the General tab of the application's
properties, or by selecting the application and using the Change
status button in any of the following lists:
|
Suite | Displays Yes if this application is a suite (that is, contains child applications), and otherwise No. Remember that a non-suite (has no children) may itself be a member of a suite. For example, Adobe Creative Suite® is a suite, Adobe Photoshop is not, and Photoshop can be a member of Creative Suite. |
Usage | The count of devices on which inventory shows that usage tracking is
turned on, and the application has been used.
This data is read-only.Tip: This is the number of
devices showing usage in the Devices tab of the
application properties, and is filtered by the thresholds set in the
Usage tab of the same application properties. Devices
where applications are opened less often, or for shorter times, than specified
there are not counted here; but for usage tracked in Flexera inventory, may be
checked in the Raw Software Usage page (where no thresholds
apply).
|
Version | The release number (or release identifier) of an application. Visible in the Version field in General tab of the application properties. Editable for applications with a Source value of Local. For applications from the Application Recognition Library, it is not editable. |
FlexNet Manager Suite (On-Premises)
2020 R2