Just because that exe is present does not necessarily mean that the software is installed.
As I noted, for specific cases you can either create a rule in software inventory that looks for just eclipse.exe in a specific location even if possible (as long as you account for the fact as noted that this may or may not indicate the installation of anything) or yes, use a CI. J From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Edward Woo Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 4:48 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] RE: Hardware Inventory While SW inventory is basically a file inventory and the recommendation is to use HW inventory, how do you handle software that do not write data into Add/Remove Programs like open source software that are installed using ZIP files? (Eg. Apache Tomcat, Apache Maven, Eclipse, etc) Do you need to manually create CI for every application or is there a more automated way to determine what is present on the systems out there? (With SW inventory, I can just look for all systems with eclipse.exe and use that info to see how many instances of it is present and where they are presently stored.) Thanks, Edward From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 11:18 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Hardware Inventory Hardware inventory. Software Inventory in ConfigMgr is a file inventory and does not necessarily reflect actually installed software. If you need to know about explicit files on a system, like all .psts, then software inventory is great. For generic scans of all files though, it's not very efficient and has a high cost in terms of db space and client impact for not a lot of useful info. Configuration Items are usually also a much better choice as well. J From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Mead, Renae (DTMB) Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 12:52 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Hardware Inventory Thank you. We currently have heartbeat discovery set to daily. What do you use for SW inventory if not ConfigMgr? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Garth Jones Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 9:09 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Hardware Inventory In general, I recommend HW to be setup daily and SW inventory to be disabled, as it is useless! If SW is not disabled then set to every 14 days. BTW Heartbeat discovery I also recommend be set to daily too. Keep in mind that ConfigMgr is NOT a CMDB. Garth Jones Chief Architect Configuration Manager/SCCM Reporting<https://www.enhansoft.com/> From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Mead, Renae (DTMB) Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 8:55 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] Hardware Inventory I'm curious how often everyone is running hardware inventory? We have about 50,000 machines in our environment running hardware and software inventory every 4 days. We are getting rid of our asset management system and upper management wants ConfigMgr to replace it. Thanks, Renae Mead DTMB IS OA Enterprise Services mea...@michigan.gov<mailto:mea...@michigan.gov> (517) 636-0761 Office (517) 388-2737 Mobile
