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Software Discovery Collect Task

The software discovery collect task collects the information regarding the software installed on the assets. The agent scans the assets on a scheduled basis and collects only the information that has changed since the previous scan. It also facilitates enhanced software inventory detection provided by the eVM software scanner.

You can create and configure the software discovery collect task from three locations:

Note: On UNIX platforms, the inventory information that can be retrieved depends on parameters such as the platform and the operating system version.

More information:

Specify Settings for Heuristic Scanning

Select Method for Software Discovery Collect Task