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- Inventory Discovery
- Inventory Discovery Overview
- Inventory Discovery Scanners
- Inventory Discovery Deployment Overview
- Scan Files
- Processing Scan Files
- Scan File Processing Power
- XML Enricher
- XML Enricher Log Files
- Application Teaching
- Using Rules to Teach Applications
- Enriched Scan File Structure
- Hardware and Software Recognition
- App Store Applications
- Custom Hardware or Asset Mapping
- Inventory Tools
- BDNA Normalize Integration
- Discovery Options for Client IP Ranges
- How to Run Inventory Discovery
- How to Run Inventory Discovery Manually
- How to View Discovery Status of an Inventory CI in JMX
- How to View Agent Deployment Log for an Inventory CI in JMX
- How to Edit Pre and Post Scan Scripts
- How to Set Up Asset Fields for Data Collection
- How to Set Up Asset Fields for Data Collection - Example
- How to Set up the Scanner to Handle Delta Scan Files in Manual Deployment Mode
- How to Configure XML Enricher to Suit the Probe Deployment Mode
- How to Configure the Maximum Number of Threads to Process Scan Files
- How to Check XML Enricher Health Using JMX
- How to Limit the XML Enricher Port to Allow Local Connection Only
- How to Reprocess Scan Files
- How to Import SAIs to the Data Flow Probe
- How to Import Normalization Rules to the Data Flow Probe
- How to Configure and Optimize Inventory Discovery
- How to Configure Analysis Asset Fields
- How to Map Scan File Attributes to UCMDB
- Mapping Hardware or Asset Fields to UCMDB - Use-Case Scenario
- How to Set Extract Options
- How to Filter Discovery Results to UCMDB
- How to Enable Application Virtualization Discovery
- How to Rename Scanner Executable Files
- How to Integrate BDNA Normalize
- How to Discover Client IP Ranges Without SNMP
- How to Discover Windows Device Drivers using the Inventory Discovery by Scanner Job
- Scanner Command Line Parameters Overview
- Scanner Command Line Parameters
- Scanner Information Type Parameters
- Scanner File Locations
- Web Server Configuration for Saving Scan Files via HTTP
- XML Enricher Directory Structure
- Enriched XSF File Structure
- Inventory Discovery User Interface
Hardware and Software Recognition
Recognition is the process of identifying certain properties and attributes of a hardware device or a software application by leveraging content that is supplied by Content Packs and by publisher data.
Hardware Recognition
- Discovery Rules. A database containing information on hardware that is available for sale by a wide range of manufacturers. The Discovery Rules Engine determines the device’s operating system, application, device family, and model. Then, Discovery Rules assigns a device type to your device model.
This database is updated monthly and is included in Content Packs. For more information, see the ITOM Marketplace website.
To find more information about viewing Discovery Rules that are installed on your system, see How to View Discovery Rules in JMX.
Software Recognition
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Software Identification Tags. Universal Discovery supports the ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard. A software identification tag is an XML file that contains identification information about a software product. The tag is installed on a discovery node together with the software product, and it uniquely identifies the software. When tags are captured by Scanners during discovery, the data can be leveraged for improved software asset management and compliance.
The tag may be created as part of the installation process, or added later for software already installed without tags.
Software identification tag files must have the .swidtag file extension in order to be recognized by Inventory Discovery tools. You can create installed package rules that can match the information found in the software ID tags.
For more information, about viewing software identification tags, see Inventory Tools.
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Software Application Index (SAI). SAI files provided with the Content Pack contain information to identify applications on a discovery node. The library also contains license relationship information that allows Universal Discovery to identify how individual software products are related to a software product suite.
SAI files can be exported from the Administration > Package Manager, then select SAI. For more information, see How to Export a Package.
In addition to the standard libraries, Universal Discovery includes several tools that allow you to create your own library extensions in the form of one or more User SAI files that can be applied to the automatic Application Recognition process. For more information, see the section that describes the SAI Editor in Inventory Tools. For more information about teaching applications to improve the Application Recognition process, see Application Teaching.
The SAI contains information about applications in multiple languages for multiple platforms. SAI files are available as follows:
Windows The following languages are available:
- English
- French
- German
UNIX SAI files are available for the following variant systems:
- BaseUnix
- HP-UX
- AIX
- Solaris
Mac Mac OS X
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