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Discovered Software

The Discovered node and its corresponding Discovered Software pane display the software discovered on the selected asset or group.

You can use the Filters portlet to refine your view of the products, releases, patches, and virtual application images discovered by heuristic scanning and signature scanning. In addition to selecting source filters, you can filter on software type and, in the case of virtual software, you can also filter on format availability.

Note: By default, heuristic scanning results are not replicated on the enterprise manager. But, you can configure them through the DSM Explorer. To enable or disable the replication, navigate to the Software, Discovered node and select Replicate Heuristic to Enterprise from the context menu of the Discovered node. The modified configuration is applicable to all the computers in this group. For more information, see the Implementation Guide.

This pane contains the following columns:

Application

Displays the name of the regular application, virtual application, or virtual application image for which a software definition exists and that has been discovered on the asset or group.

Version

Displays the version number of the application.

Software type

Displays the type of software discovered. Valid types for all software definitions include Release, Patch, Product, Suite, and Virtual Application Image.

Note: If the discovered software is virtualized, then the software type may be further refined as Staged Virtual Release, Staged Virtual Application Image, Standalone Virtual Patch, and so on. If the same item has been discovered installed in more than one way, for example, staged and streamed, each discovery is listed separately.

At the group level, you can see the following additional columns:

Installation

Displays the number of unique computers in the group where the software is available. If the software is available multiple times on one computer, then the computer is only counted once.

Licenses

Displays the number of approved or purchased licenses for the application. This is the number supplied when you created the release or suite.

Deviation

Displays the difference between the Installations and Licenses columns. If the number of installations is more than the approved licenses, this column shows a negative number.

Depending on the deviation between the number of installations and approved licenses, the rows are displayed in the following colors:

Red

Indicates that your installations have exceeded the approved licenses.

Green

Indicates that your installations and approved licenses are equal.

Blue

Indicates that your installations are fewer than the approved licenses.

More information:

Create New Release/Suite/Virtual Application Image Definition Dialogs: Approved Licenses Tab