Identifying Applications Using Evidence

IT Visibility uses evidence information to identify software applications installed or accessed within your enterprise. The evidence information is collected as a part of the inventory collection process.

You can see all your discovered software evidence with overall match counts, aligned with normalized results where applicable, on the IT Visibility Software Evidence page (Applications & Evidence > IT Visibility Software > Software Evidence).

On this page, you can:

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View the overall evidence counts for All Evidence, Active Evidence, Irrelevant Evidence, and Unrecognized Evidence.

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View the properties of each piece of discovered evidence. You can search for evidence by using the global search box or the filter in each property column. You can also sort the evidence by properties.

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View additional evidence details (such as type, data source, and last found date) for a specific piece of evidence by clicking that evidence.

Note:Within each record of the evidence, the Technopedia details reflect the recognition status when the related instances of that evidence was last mapped.

The following table lists all the available properties. Some properties are displayed by default and others can be displayed through the column chooser. To open the column chooser, click the icon. You can also export all these details in the CSV format.

Property	Description
Evidence Manufacturer	The manufacturer name of the software as reported by the evidence.
Evidence Name	The display name of the software as reported by the evidence.
Evidence Version	The version of the software as reported by the evidence.
Reported	The reported count of the evidence (that is, the information collected from a system to detect the existence of the software).
Recognition Status	The recognition status of the evidence. This field can have one of the following values: • Active—Indicates that the evidence has been recognized and mapped in Technopedia. • Irrelevant—Indicates that the evidence has been recognized as not having any value to the customer. The reason why the evidence has been recognized as irrelevant is provided in the Irrelevant Reason column. • Unrecognized—Indicates that the evidence has not been mapped in Technopedia. Flexera curates unrecognized evidence based on whether it is useful for recognition. Details on this gap-fill process can be found in the Flexera Community. Note:When the recognitions status is Unrecognized, a dash “-” appears in the Technopedia fields.
Irrelevant Reason	Explanation for why an evidence has been marked as Irrelevant in its recognition status.
Is Private	Indicates whether the evidence is mapped to the Private Catalog.
Technopedia Product ID	The Technopedia unique identifier for the application, if applicable.
Technopedia Release ID	The Technopedia unique identifier for the application, if applicable.
Technopedia Manufacturer	The manufacturer name of the software as provided in Technopedia.
Technopedia Name	The display name of the software as provided in Technopedia.
Technopedia Version	The version of the software as provided in Technopedia.