All Installer Evidence
The Installer Evidence tab of the All Evidence page displays all installation evidence discovered across your enterprise and in the Application Recognition Library.
Available actions
- Assign evidence to an application or unassign the linked evidence. See Assigning (or Unassigning) Evidence to (or from) an Application
- Ignore or recover an evidence record. See Excluding Evidence from Application Recognition
- Add or edit an evidence record. See Adding or Editing an Evidence Record
- Delete evidence. See Deleting an Evidence Record.
Available columns
This page displays the following columns (listed alphabetically). Some columns are displayed by default and others can be displayed through the column chooser. To manage columns and other UI options, see the topics under Managing Columns in a Table.
Column name | Details |
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Active |
Displays Yes if this evidence exists in the gathered inventory of your enterprise, and No if the evidence exists in the Application Recognition Library, but not reported by the gathered inventory. Not editable. |
Assigned |
Displays Yes when the evidence is matched to at least one application, and otherwise displays No. This assignment may have been done automatically through the Application Recognition Library rules, or manually by the operator. This data is read-only. |
Ignored |
Displays Yes when the evidence is not used for application recognition, and No (the default) when the evidence is used to recognize an installation of the assigned application. Editable in the General tab of the installer evidence properties. |
Matches |
Specifies the number of times that a particular evidence rule is matched in
software inventory.
Note: A figure displayed in the Matches column is
often higher than the number of installations of the software applications (the
installation count is displayed in the Installed column on the
Applications tab of the evidence properties). These figures may
be different for the following reasons:
This data is read-only. |
Name |
The installer evidence name is derived from native packaging tools on each device. For example, on Windows® devices, the sources include MSI information and Add/Remove Programs data. Clicking on the hyperlinked Name value opens the property sheet for this installer evidence, and in those properties theDevices tab identifies all the inventory devices where this installer evidence has been located. For installer names that you create manually, the
Name is editable in the General tab of the installer
evidence properties. For evidence supplied through the Application Recognition Library, the
Name field is not editable.
Tip: Keep in mind
that editing the evidence name in your rule may cause the FlexNet Inventory Agent to not recognize the applications linked with your evidence rule.
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Publisher |
The publisher name listed in the evidence. For the manually-created records, this field is editable in the General tab of the evidence properties. |
Source | The source of this evidence rule:
This data is read-only. |
Type |
The kind of software installer that generated this evidence, or where the installer evidence is found. Examples include MSI, Add/Remove Programs, and so on. When creating your own installer evidence record, you can select any of the
following:
For manually-created records, editable in the General tab of the installer evidence properties. Not editable for records published through the Application Recognition Library. |
Version |
The version of the installed application, as reported by the evidence. For the manually-created records, this field is editable in the General tab of the evidence properties. An
evidence version retrieved from Application Recognition Library is not editable.
Note: Incorrectly editing a version may stop the inventory agent from
recognizing the applications linked to the evidence. If you edit the version number, be
sure to check the association with the application and ensure that the rule (or wildcards)
still applies to the modified evidence.
Tip: While each piece of evidence should have a distinct version, you can link
them to an application using the percent wildcard character
(%). This represents zero or more characters. For example,
the evidence versions reported for a single application on 3 different computers might be
10.1.123.0045, 10.1.126.0000, and
10.1.123.0048 (they might represent different service packs and
hot-fixes). On the linked application, you can merge this evidence to a single rule for
version 10.1.%. Then license calculations will link all three pieces of
evidence to the same application.
Note: The period and a comma characters
are counted as matching each other. There is no single wildcard character.
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