Snow Inventory Agent 5 Settings (windows) configuration ...

8 years ago

Hi Nahum, in reply to your question, I make an assumption first: By "Microsoft Software" you mean software from the vendor Microsoft, not software that runs on Microsoft operating systems, right? Ad 1) That cannot really be achieved using config settings. I could think about a clumsy workaround using the include/exclude path settings, and not running the agent as a service (so it can't detect running processes). However, this is a quite theoretical approach, and not in line with what Snow is intended to do (= provide a most complete inventory of your software usage), nor what you would need for proper SAM. Ad 2) This could be done by multiple ways: a) Use the config name as tag b) Read a custom registry key from the registry, you deployed first. Do so by configuring the snowagent.config accordingly. c) Use a custom PowerShell script to return a reg key or software product that gives you such a tag. If you want to transfer the results to a custom field in SLM, talk to your Snow representative about a customer DUJ that transfers the information from to a custom field. a) and b) then also can be used in Auto-Connect rules to move the machines to a certain org unit too. However, and without going into the details of SAM here, I'd go another way, if I really only wanted to have Microsoft Software in my SLM. 1) Configure SI and the agents according to Snow best practices (= Scan all software on the machines) 2) Use a default DUJ 3) Configure the vendor filter in SLM SMaCC to hide all other vendors than "Microsoft%" (System-wide setting!) If you could provide some more insight in why you want to hide other vendor's products, we might be able to come up with a better approach. Best regards, Stefan

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timpla
8 years ago
Would be interested in knowing why you want to hide products from other vendors?
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Portal User
8 years ago
Hi Nahum, in reply to your question, I make an assumption first: By "Microsoft Software" you mean software from the vendor Microsoft, not software that runs on Microsoft operating systems, right? Ad 1) That cannot really be achieved using config settings. I could think about a clumsy workaround using the include/exclude path settings, and not running the agent as a service (so it can't detect running processes). However, this is a quite theoretical approach, and not in line with what Snow is intended to do (= provide a most complete inventory of your software usage), nor what you would need for proper SAM. Ad 2) This could be done by multiple ways: a) Use the config name as tag b) Read a custom registry key from the registry, you deployed first. Do so by configuring the snowagent.config accordingly. c) Use a custom PowerShell script to return a reg key or software product that gives you such a tag. If you want to transfer the results to a custom field in SLM, talk to your Snow representative about a customer DUJ that transfers the information from to a custom field. a) and b) then also can be used in Auto-Connect rules to move the machines to a certain org unit too. However, and without going into the details of SAM here, I'd go another way, if I really only wanted to have Microsoft Software in my SLM. 1) Configure SI and the agents according to Snow best practices (= Scan all software on the machines) 2) Use a default DUJ 3) Configure the vendor filter in SLM SMaCC to hide all other vendors than "Microsoft%" (System-wide setting!) If you could provide some more insight in why you want to hide other vendor's products, we might be able to come up with a better approach. Best regards, Stefan
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nr
8 years ago
Thank you Stefan! Will try it next week... will keep you posted.
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