Detecting "New" Applications

ScouseSAM asked a question.

August 31, 2017 at 7:00 AM

I would like to be able to easily detect when a new application is installed on the network (not just a new installation in general). This would be extremely useful for picking up on unauthorised installations wherein a user may somehow circumvent policies that are in place. This would provide visibility at an early stage of any such occurrence helping to maintain compliance more effectively.

I am aware of the report for new installations however that includes installations of applications that already exist in our database. This feature is not really suitable for what I am trying to do. We also have a large application base which would make using the installation report a very manual task as I would have to run a report, filter it and try to investigate which applications are actually "new".

Does anyone have a method they use for picking up on new applications? Am I missing a trick here? I have been using Snow every day for the past 2 years so if I have missed something simple I'm going to kick myself...

Thanks!

(btw we're using SLM8)

Shaz_Berry
8 years ago
I think the thread went off track and back to how to discover new installations. I am really keen on a report that would provide net new software within the environment. I will look on enhancements and see if anyone created a request and vote up up up.
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- rswain
  8 years ago
  Agreed. Thanks.
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Community Manager (Flexera Software)
9 years ago
I agree this would be a great out of the box report, probably a great idea to raise as an enhancement request. I have written my own SQL report that identifies new applications on our environment, It is quite a technical undertaking so it is not for the faint hearted, but if you have access to your SQL database and you are confident with SQL queries then I could share my solution with you. However on this occasion I wont be posting it on the forum. The other option is to engage with Snow or your hosting partner who would be able to offer services to write something like this for you. Mark.
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Portal User
9 years ago
I would like to see something along the lines of a weekly or daily change report that could be filtered or modified for the items you want to see. For instance, new hardware added, new software installed (already in DB), along with new software new to DB. Is SNOW working on additional reporting like this? Thank you
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Community Manager (Flexera Software)
8 years ago
You could look at the application rights functionality - this would 'allow' users with rights, and alert you on those who have the application, but dont have the right With the new cloud detection functionality you could 'Allow' Azure Web portal for some users, and be alerted if others are using it Snow will only report of course (or Automation Platform can do more)
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Portal User
8 years ago
You can use the "Applications per computer" report. Add the column installed and use this to filter the report on a specific day. Or just sort it on installed. The report can however be a bit slow/large if you have a large environment. So I would recommend that you limit the report some before you run it.
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- Portal User
  8 years ago
  Yes, I have tried that and it is very large and most of the time it fails because it times out. That is why I asked about a specific report on changes only.
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  - Portal User
    8 years ago
    You could prepare a few version of the report with the "installed" column added all the none license requiring applications filtered out and save it. You can add more conditions to make it smaller so it will at least finish. That will make the actual job when you want to see this data faster. I don't know if you did a feature request in the support platform. You will need to do that for the request to be official. You can off cause also request this custom report as a services solution from Snow.
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