Application Installation Details Report

The Application Installation Details report lists application installations along with details of the inventory device they were discovered on, and the details of any linked asset.

Generating the Report

To generate the report, perform the following steps.

To generate an Application Installation Details report:

1. Go to Reporting > Application Reports > Application Installation Details.
2. In the top left corner is a search field titled Publisher. Click the search icon and then select a publisher. This populates the Applications search field a list of applications by this publisher.
3. In the search field titled Applications, select the application(s) to include in this report or skip this search to include all applications by this publisher. For help with the search, see To Use a Fly-Down.
4. Click Run report.

Important:Although this report will run without refining the results, we highly recommend applying filters to prevent the report timing out before completion.

Reading the Report

Results display grouped by each application included in the report. Expanding an application group display each inventory device (titled Host name) where this application is installed and each of these items can be expanded to display the following columns (listed alphabetically) for each record. By default, some are available in the column chooser.

Application Installation Details Report Properties

Property

Description

Access mode

The method that this device uses to access a software application. This field can have one of the following values:

• Blank—When there is an allocation without any supportive installation record from the imported inventory.
• App-V—For a virtualized application delivered through Microsoft App-V
• Local—The application has been installed locally on the inventory device.
• XenApp (now known as Citrix Virtual Apps)—The application has been accessed remotely via a Citrix XenApp server.
• XenDesktop (now known as Virtual Desktops)—The application has been installed on a virtual machine in your VDI infrastructure, and associated with this inventory device because the primary end-user has accessed the software through this inventory device. If your virtual machine image includes the Inventory Agent, this inventory device may have been identified as the end-point from which the end user accessed the VDI. In other circumstances, the end-user may have used a remote device such as a home computer or mobile device that cannot be inventoried; but as the end-user is associated with this inventory device, the application use can be recorded here for license consumption calculations.

IT Asset Management generates the value of this field.

Affinity enabled

Indicates whether host affinity is enabled for this virtual machine. Host affinity enables you bind a virtual machine to the current virtual host.

Editable in the VM properties tab of the inventory device properties.

Asset name

The name given to identify this asset.

Editable in the Name field in the General tab of the asset properties.

Asset status

Where this asset is within the asset life-cycle. The following options are provided by default (however additional options may be imported using a business adapter):

• Disposed—The asset is no longer held by the enterprise, as it has been sold, given away, thrown out, or destroyed.
• In storage—The asset has been delivered but has not been installed.
• Installed—The asset is in active use (standard operating condition).
• Other—Any other status used by your organization to classify an asset. This value does not affect any automated processing.
• Purchased—The asset has been purchased but not delivered.
• Retired—The asset has been retired from use, but remains within the enterprise.

Editable in the General tab of the asset properties.

Assigned user

Depending on corporate policy, may be the owner of the asset; or may reflect an end- user name assigned to the physical inventory device that is linked to the asset record.

Editable in the Assigned field in the Ownership tab of the asset properties.

Calculated user

Copied from the inventory item linked to this asset record, this is the user most often logged on to the device in the last ten inventory collections.

Not editable: a read-only copy from the inventory device.

Category

The category chosen for this asset.

Selectable in the General tab of the asset properties.

Compliance status

The compliance status of an inventory device. It can have any of the following values:

• Changed—Indicates a change in the compliance status of an inventory device. This value is changed automatically when the following conditions are met:
• The inventory device has a linked asset.
• You have defined the device compliance settings to track any changes in the hardware properties of this device.
• There is a change in the hardware properties for which the device compliance settings have been defined. This change can be manual or a result of a new inventory import.
• Compliant—The inventory details reported in the last inventory import match those of previous imports, or any changes to those details have been approved. For details about reviewing or approving changes to assets, see Viewing and Accepting the Changes to a Device Asset.
• New—The default value for all newly imported devices. This value is not changed until there is a change in the hardware configuration or an asset is linked to this device.
• Not tracked—Indicates that the device is no longer tracked for compliance. This may happen when an inventory import leads to a duplicate device record with some change in its properties.

The value is calculated by IT Asset Management and can be manually set on the General tab of the inventory device properties.

Computer inventory source

The method used to create the inventory device record. The possible values:

• Automatic—The inventory device was discovered in incoming inventory
• Manual—The inventory device was manually created
• VM Host—The inventory device is a virtual machine that was discovered while taking inventory of a host server.

IT Asset Management generates the value of this field.

Computer name

The name of the computing device.

The value of this field is automatically generated by the discovery process.

Computer type

Specifies the type of the inventory device, which may be any of the following values:

• Computer—A computing device like a desktop, laptop, workstation, or a non- virtualized server.
• Mobile device—A mobile device like a tablet or smart phone.
• Product—Not a device type, but a pseudo-value used only in IBM VPC licenses to identify rows showing the licensed IBM product. This value may appear only if the Bundle consumption rules (in the license properties Use Rights & Rules tab, under License consumption rules) have the option Consume for each product on a device selected.
• Remote Device—The device is a remote device (not appearing in inventory) known to have accessed virtualized applications. This value is created automatically.
• VDI Template—The VDI template used to create the virtual desktop instance that was accessed from an inventory device (see Virtual Desktop Templates). This value is created automatically.
• Virtual Machine—A virtual machine running on a physical host machine. A physical host can run multiple virtual machines using virtualization technologies from VMWare, Oracle, Microsoft, and so on.
• VM Host—A physical virtual host running one or more virtual machines using any virtualization technology, such as VMWare.

Editable in the Inventory device type field in the General tab of the inventory device properties. The value may be overwritten by incoming inventory.

Cores

The total number of processor cores available in a physical inventory device; or the number of cores assigned to an inventory device that is a virtual machine.

Populated and (by default) updated by inventory imports, the number of Cores can be manually overridden in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (see Inventory Device Properties / Hardware Tab).

Corporate unit, Cost center, or Location

The name of the related enterprise group.

To edit group names and relationships, navigate to Enterprise > groupType.

Creation date

The date when this inventory record was created in IT Asset Management.

Tip:New inventory device records are created during a full import to the compliance database, as new inventory is identified. Therefore it's quite possible to have a creation date that is later than the inventory date, with the difference being due to scheduling, such as the scheduling of imports from third-party tools, or delays between the upload of FlexNet inventory and the full import and compliance calculations (for example, if your full imports are scheduled weekly, or the like).

Not editable.

Display adapters

The total number of display adapters installed in the inventory device.

Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (for manually- created records). The value is overwritten (permanently) by incoming inventory, and thereafter is read-only.

Domain name

The name of the domain to which the computing device belongs.

Tip:Displays flexera.com if this is a dummy device record created for imports through your connector to SaaS Management.

Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties for manually created records. The value is overwritten (permanently) by incoming inventory, and thereafter is read-only.

Friendly name

The name of the inventory device. The compliance calculation updates this field with the machine name returned in inventory (matched by several properties, including serial number).

Tip:The name displays as Flexera SaaS Manager if this is a dummy device record created for imports from your SaaS Management connector.

Editable in the Name field in the General tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records).

Hard drives

The total number of hard drives installed in the inventory device.

Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (for manually- created records). The value is overwritten (permanently) by incoming inventory, and thereafter is read-only.

Host identifying number

The ID of the host server that hosts this virtual machine.

The Host ID field is editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties.

Inventory agent

If you have multiple overlapping inventory sources that report on the same device, it is possible for some inventory details to come from one source and other details from another source. This column identifies the most recent source of inventory that reported the majority of the hardware properties for this device. If you have declared a primary inventory connection and this device appears in inventory from that primary connection, it is likely that your primary connection is supplying the majority of hardware properties, and so is shown here.

Tip:If your primary source reported the majority of hardware properties some time ago, and since then one or more secondary sources have updated a minority of additional properties, this value still shows the primary source (source of the majority of hardware properties). Tracking the primary source is particularly valuable if you have a variation from IBM allowing you to use Inventory Agent and IT Asset Management as replacements for IBM tools (such as ILMT) in the calculation and reporting of sub-capacity licensing for IBM PVU licenses. That agreement requires that you can demonstrate that the Last inventory source is FlexNet Manager Suite, and that this source is reporting every 30 minutes.

The values are system-provided, and cannot be modified. Most values are self- explanatory; some less obvious ones include:

• Data Platform—The inventory was imported from Flexera Normalize (previously BDNA Normalize, part of BDNA Data Platform)
• Flexera SaaS Manager—This is a dummy device created for linking with imports through your SaaS Management connector
• ManageSoft—The inventory was collected by legacy versions of the Inventory Agent, and saved in a separate inventory database
• Manual—You created this inventory device record manually, and no matching inventory has been received yet.
• SMS—The inventory was imported from Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (previously Microsoft SCCM as well as SMS)
• Tivoli Endpoint Manager—Inventory was imported from IBM Big Fix, or one of its earlier renamings (IBM Endpoint Manager, Tivoli Endpoint Manager).

Tip:If you have custom inventory adapters, entries for these may also appear in this column as appropriate.

Not editable.

Inventory chassis type

The chassis type for an inventory device, as reported by the inventory process.

This read-only value cannot be edited, however for the purposes of license calculations, you can override its value with the Assigned chassis type setting in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties.

Inventory connection name

The name of the connection through which IT Asset Management received the last inventory for this inventory device.

Not editable.

Inventory date

The date when the last inventory information was collected by the Last inventory source for this inventory device.

The inventory process generates the value of this field.

IP address

The IP address of the inventory device. For inventory devices with multiple IP addresses (for example, those with multiple network cards), a comma-separated list (up to 256 characters) is shown. IP addresses in the IPv6 address family are not reported in FlexNet inventory for devices running UNIX-like operating systems.

Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties.

Last logged on user

The name of the user that was discovered to be the last logged on user on this device.

Click the linked full name to open the General tab of the user properties pages, and for details see User Properties / General Tab.

Last used date

The most recent date when this user opened the application, on any machine where the user has a login. Requires that usage information on this application is returned by at least one inventory source.

This value relies on inventory, and is not editable.

MAC address

The Media Access Control (MAC) address of the accessing device. If the accessing device has multiple network interface cards, this field displays a comma-separated list of MAC addresses.

Manufacturer

Who built the machine represented as this asset.

Editable in the General tab of the asset properties.

Max clock speed

The maximum clock speed displayed in the computer’s own property sheet.

The Clock speed value is not directly editable. See the property sheet for the computer.

Missing computers threshold

The number of days since this device last reported inventory.

Model no

The manufacturer’s model number for this asset.

Editable in the General tab of the asset properties.

Network cards

The total number of network cards installed in a physical inventory device; or the number of network cards accessible by the virtual machine.

Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (for manually- created records).

Notification

Possible issue(s) associated with this inventory device, such as This device has a serial number that is not unique. Visible in the Possible issues for this device section of inventory device properties. To ignore the alerts for the associated issues, see Ignoring Alerts.

Notification count

The number of notifications.

Operating system

The operating system running on this device.

This value may be blank because:

• The device is recently discovered – the operating system can only occasionally be populated during first discovery, and is often backfilled once inventory is returned for this device.
• The device is a VM host that is a hardware frame that may not be running its own operating system. In this case, the computer Name field is set to a serial number associated with the hardware (because, without an operating system, there is no host name). In fact, no inventory of any kind is possible without an operating system, so IT Asset Management synthesizes the VM host record from common data reported by its guest VMs. The virtual machines in these cases may typically be partitions like:
• LPARs running on IBM PowerPC servers
• Solaris zones on either x86 or SPARC architectures
• nPar or vPar partitions running on HP Integrity servers.

Overridden

Indicates whether the operator has manually changed one or more properties discovered in inventory, or if the inventory details are unchanged for this inventory device.

Note:Due to a bug, this property currently displays 1 for Yes, or 0 for No.

Partial number of processors

The equivalent number of full-time processors set by the time-sharing controls on the hardware console. Some virtualization technologies (such as on IBM's AIX operating system) report this setting in inventory. You may override an incorrect inventory value for this field.

Populated and (by default) updated on virtual machines by inventory imports, this field in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (only for virtual machines) can be overridden with a manually entered value. An overridden value is no longer updated by incoming inventory.

Pool

The name of the processor set the virtual machine is assigned to.

Not editable.

Processor type

The type of processor installed in the inventory device.

Populated and (by default) updated by inventory imports, this value can be manually overwritten in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (see Inventory Device Properties / Hardware Tab).

Processors

The total number of processors installed in a physical inventory device, or logical processors assigned to a virtual machine.

Populated and (by default) updated by inventory imports, this field in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties can be overridden with a manually entered value (see Inventory Device Properties / Hardware Tab). Overridden values are no longer updated by incoming inventory.

RAM

The size of Random Access Memory (RAM) installed in the inventory device, in gigabytes.

For manually-created records, this is editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties. The value is overwritten (permanently) by incoming inventory, and thereafter is read-only.

Recommended asset details

The encoded form of the database ID of an asset, a semicolon and the asset name. For example 123;MyLaptop. This code is intended for use when this report is run from other third party systems via our APIs to enable creation of hyperlinks pointing to the database ID with friendly text. They are not intended for general display.

Recommended asset link

Displays the name of an asset that is recommended for this inventory device.

Not editable.

Role

The role assigned to this account. A role determines the features accessible to an account. The Web Service role is by default selected for a service account.

Editable in the account properties.

Serial no.

The unique identifier for the inventory device linked to this asset record.

The manufacturer's serial number (where it exists) of the linked inventory device is automatically copied here whenever the linked inventory device is updated. Editable in the Serial number field in the General tab of the asset properties.

Service pack

The service pack name or number (if installed) is collected automatically during the inventory process.

Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (for manually- created records).

Service provider

Shows whether the inventory device is on-premises (the default, meaning the device is within your enterprise), or in a cloud operated by a particular service provider. For some cloud service providers, the Hosted in value is set automatically through inventory (AWS is supported from version 13.1.0 of Inventory Agent, and Azure is supported from version 13.2.0). For other cloud service providers, you must make a selection manually.

Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties.

Note:This field is superseded by the Hosted in field in the Management section of IT Asset Management

Sockets

The total number of mounting sockets for central processing units (CPUs) available in a physical inventory device. For a Virtual machine, this may be the number of virtual sockets assigned to the VM.

Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties. If it is not available from your inventory, or if the value is inaccurate, you can permanently override with a manual value.

Status

Indicates the current state of a device. It can have any of the following values:

• Active—A device for which the inventory information is received from an inventory source.
• Archived—This device is in transition pending deletion, but is currently held because of its historical impacts on IBM PVU sub-capacity retrospective calculations.
• Awaiting Inventory—This device is a place-holder that has not yet appeared in imported inventory from any source.
• Ignored—The device that is not managed. An ignored device is not considered in license consumption calculations.

Tip:If an inventory device is linked to an asset record, and that asset is given a status of either Retired or Disposed, this Ignored value is automatically set for the linked inventory device.

Provided that the inventory device has not [yet] been linked to an asset record, this value is editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties (although Awaiting Inventory is no longer available once inventory has been collected for the device, and Archived can never be set manually).

Threads

The total number of threads available in a physical inventory device; or the number of logical processors (virtual processors in a virtual machine, or threads assigned to a partition) assigned to an inventory device that is a virtual machine.

Populated and (by default) updated by inventory imports, this field in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties can be overridden with a manually entered value (see Inventory Device Properties / Hardware Tab).

Total disk space

The total space of all hard drives installed on the inventory device, in Gigabytes.

Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (for manually- created records). The value is overwritten (permanently) by incoming inventory, and thereafter is read-only.

VM name

The name of the virtual machine that is recognized by the host server. This value is visible in the properties of the VM host, in the Virtual Machines tab, in the VM name column.

Editable in the Friendly name field in the VM properties tab of the inventory device properties for the virtual machine. The compliance calculation updates this field with the machine name returned in inventory (matched by serial number).

VM type

The type of the virtual machine.

Editable in the VM properties tab of the inventory device properties for the virtual machine (for manually-created records). The value may be overwritten by incoming inventory.