bfaller asked a question.
Case for this bug is opened since months.
Regards.
My understanding of how this is intended to work matches the current behavior you have described: the "file path" on a file evidence record is set to the most frequently observed path in the environment at the time the evidence record is created, which is when the particular file details are first observed in inventory. I'm not aware of any functionality in the system that would automatically update these values at any point.
If you think there is a good use case for having the system calculate and track the most commonly observed path for individual filenames on an ongoing basis and other people may be interested in that capability, I would suggest logging an idea in Flexera Ideas so that people can vote on it.
Forwarding to "Flexera Ideas" is really not a "good idea" for recognised bugs. Solulion could be:
- change the documentation from "most frequent" to "most frequent at the creation, but never updated". Then bug disappears, but this not fair.
- provide a work arround procedure (on demand report) that updates this information based on existing 'most frequent' internal calculation. Recommanded solution.
- run this procedure in reconcilation process, but may be too time consuming.
Regards.
My understanding of how this is intended to work matches the current behavior you have described: the "file path" on a file evidence record is set to the most frequently observed path in the environment at the time the evidence record is created, which is when the particular file details are first observed in inventory. I'm not aware of any functionality in the system that would automatically update these values at any point.
If you think there is a good use case for having the system calculate and track the most commonly observed path for individual filenames on an ongoing basis and other people may be interested in that capability, I would suggest logging an idea in Flexera Ideas so that people can vote on it.