What file and installer evidence is gathered by the FlexNet Inventory Agent?
The FlexNet Inventory Agent gathers inventory data from various sources. This article details where data is sourced from that is subsequently imported and treated as file and installer evidence by Flexera One IT Asset Management and FlexNet Manager Suite.
Installer evidence
The agent gathers installer evidence data from the following sources (depending on operating system):
- Add/Remove Programs: Information about installed applications stored in the registry on Windows facility computers.
- Windows Installer (MSI) cache: Evidence left in the local Microsoft Installer configuration cache on Windows.
- BEA: A custom installer developed by BEA Systems, acquired by Oracle in early 2008.
- IA: InstallAnywhere, from Revenera.
- IPS: An Oracle installation technology used on Solaris 11.
- ISMP: InstallShield MultiPlatform, from Revenera.
- LPP: The installation technology for licensed program products on AIX from IBM.
- Oracle Universal Installer (OUI): Oracle data used to identify Oracle Applications.
- Oracle EBS Module: Oracle data used to identify Oracle Applications.
- OS X App: An application bundle for OS X/Mac OS.
- RPM: A widely-used installation technology available on many GNU/Linux distributions, AIX, and Novell Netware.
- SDUX : The Software Distributor for HP-UX, from Hewlett-Packard.
- Software ID tags: evidence gathered from software identification tag files following the ISO 19770-2 standard.
- SUNPKG: An installer on Solaris for the SVR4 package format. Legacy SVR4 packages installed by the Solaris 11 IPS tool will also be recognized and identified with this label.
File evidence
On Windows, details of files with a .exe extension are gathered as file evidence.
On UNIX-like operating systems, details of files that are configured with "execute" permissions are gathered as file evidence.
In addition, details of files whose names have any of the extensions listed in the FlexNet Inventory Agent's IncludeExtensions preference are gathered. The default list of extensions included in this preference is:
- .exe (Windows operating systems only)
- .sys
- .sys2
- .swtag
- .cmptag
- .lax
- .swidtag
- .sig
Regardless of what file details are gathered in inventory, the compliance import procedures only import details of files that either match a file evidence recognition rule in the ARL, or whose names end with any of the following strings:
- .exe
- .sys
- sys2
- wtag
- ptag
- .lax
- dtag
- .sig
Related articles
- What is Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) evidence?
- What is Oracle Fusion Middleware (OracleFMW) Evidence?
- What is BEA evidence?
- What is IBM Installation Manager (IIM) evidence?
- What is InstallShield Multiplatform (ISMP) evidence?
- What is InstallAnywhere (IA) Evidence?
- What is TOAD Evidence?
- What is "Uninstall" Evidence?
