What is InstallAnywhere (IA) Evidence?

Summary

This article describes what "IA" (InstallAnywhere) evidence is, and how to locate this evidence type on a device.

InstallAnywhere Evidence

The FlexNet Inventory Agent collects evidence of installed applications on a machine and generates an inventory .ndi file. In the .ndi file, there may be evidence that has an "Evidence" type of "IA" as depicted below.

<Package Name="IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture Replication Engine Update (Sybase)" Evidence="IA" Version="10.2.0.0" InstallDate="20140313T122900">
    <Property Name="InstallLocation" Value="/CDC/ReplicationEngineforSybase"/>
    <Property Name="Publisher" Value="IBM Corporation"/>
</Package>

This evidence can appear in the Flexera One ITAM or FlexNet Manager Suite web UI with a type of "IA".

Evidence of this type is captured from an InstallAnywhere registry file on the machine. This registry file can is created by application installers that are developed using InstallAnywhere.

“IA” registry files are named .com.zerog.registry.xml

These files can be found in the following default locations.

On devices running Windows operating systems:

The file is typically stored in one of the following directories:

C:\Program Files\Zero G Registry
C:\Program Files (x86)\Zero G Registry

On devices running MacOS operating systems:

The file is typically stored in the following directory:

/Library/Preferences

On systems running other Unix-like operating systems:

The location of this file will differ depending on the user who installed the application:

Details of applications installed by the root user are recorded in the following file: /var/.com.zerog.registry.xml
Details of applications installed by non-root users are recorded in the .com.zerog.registry.xml file in the user's home directory.