Does anyone know if Flexera able to capture any attributes for connected devices to EUDs - for example a device connected via USB?
‎Feb 17, 2022 10:06 AM
Good afternoon Doug, thanks for reaching out on the Community!
On a Windows device, the config file 'wmitrack.ini' controls what WMI information the Agent inventories.
If you could update that to remove the comment characters (;) from the Win32_USBDevice node, I imagine you'd see WMI evidence coming in for attached USB devices.
;[Win32_USBDevice]
;Caption
;ClassGuid
;Description
;DeviceID
;Manufacturer
;Name
;Status
;SystemName
This would potentially require some additional deployment technology to update WMItrack.ini, however - to my knowledge, that's not something that may be updated by the Beacon or Agent Policy.
Microsoft's documentation, here, gives some insight of what information you'd get from those nodes in WMI:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cimwin32prov/cim-usbdevice
At the very least, you'd see this reflected in the Hardware tab in:
Discovered Device Properties > Inventory Evidence
I'd be curious to hear what others think, that said!
Kind regards and thanks,
Jack
Flexera Support
‎Feb 17, 2022 11:10 AM
In case you work with FNMS on-prem, would have to customize:
A possible solution might be to create Assets in FNMS for the additional devices connected via USB. For Assets, FNMS allows using a parent/child relationship for tracking which computer the USB device is connected to.
Quite a bit of effort, but this might make it easier to track smaller hardware assets, too.
‎Feb 17, 2022 11:35 AM
As an alternative to Custom Fields or additional Assets: Once the data is collected via the agent, as mentioned above, a simple SQL-based report could be used. It really depends on your use case.
‎Feb 18, 2022 08:43 AM
Good afternoon Doug, thanks for reaching out on the Community!
On a Windows device, the config file 'wmitrack.ini' controls what WMI information the Agent inventories.
If you could update that to remove the comment characters (;) from the Win32_USBDevice node, I imagine you'd see WMI evidence coming in for attached USB devices.
;[Win32_USBDevice]
;Caption
;ClassGuid
;Description
;DeviceID
;Manufacturer
;Name
;Status
;SystemName
This would potentially require some additional deployment technology to update WMItrack.ini, however - to my knowledge, that's not something that may be updated by the Beacon or Agent Policy.
Microsoft's documentation, here, gives some insight of what information you'd get from those nodes in WMI:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cimwin32prov/cim-usbdevice
At the very least, you'd see this reflected in the Hardware tab in:
Discovered Device Properties > Inventory Evidence
I'd be curious to hear what others think, that said!
Kind regards and thanks,
Jack
Flexera Support
‎Feb 17, 2022 11:10 AM
In case you work with FNMS on-prem, would have to customize:
A possible solution might be to create Assets in FNMS for the additional devices connected via USB. For Assets, FNMS allows using a parent/child relationship for tracking which computer the USB device is connected to.
Quite a bit of effort, but this might make it easier to track smaller hardware assets, too.
‎Feb 17, 2022 11:35 AM
As an alternative to Custom Fields or additional Assets: Once the data is collected via the agent, as mentioned above, a simple SQL-based report could be used. It really depends on your use case.
‎Feb 18, 2022 08:43 AM