An Intellisig is a script that detects software installed on agent computers. Intellisigs provide the most flexible and accurate way to detect software compared to the heuristic and software signature scanning. Intellisigs extract the software definition information from a defined source that the software manufacturer provides. The source can be a text file, database, registry, or binary file. For example, dsmver –f <output file> is the command that outputs version information about Client Automation. Unless the manufacturer changes the way version information is stored for the product, Intellisigs can detect the future versions of the product also. While software signature scanning requires signatures for every version of a product, release, and patch, a single Intellisig can detect releases and patches of multiple software products. For example, you can create an Intellisig to detect all versions of Microsoft Office products, including past and future versions.
Note: You can use Intellisigs to detect software on various platforms.
The following Intellisig types are available:
Includes Intellisigs that CA provides. Similar to the CA-provided software signatures, the CA-provided Intellisigs are downloaded as part of the Content Download job.
Includes Intellisigs that you create, based on your requirement. You create these Intellisigs and import them using DSM Explorer.For more information about custom intellisigs, see the Asset Management Administration Guide.
Note: Intellisigs do not support software usage (metering), both offline and online.
DSM Reporter does not support Intellisigs reports.
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