IBM Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed V7.5.0.10

Products List

Use this window to view the list of software products in your IT infrastructure and the number of their instances.

The Use Data Collection column provides information pertaining to the collection of use information. You can change the default settings by selecting a given product, and choosing Change Data Collection Level from the Select Action list .

The Multiple Instance Identification function can be either enabled or disabled. By default, it is activated, but you can change this setting by selecting a given product, and choosing Change Data Collection Level from the Select Action list. This feature gives you the possibility of identifying different instances of the same product on the same system, for example, if on a given system one copy of Product 1 is installed in one directory and the second Product 1 copy is installed in a different directory, then with multiple instance identification activated, the agent will report two instances of Product 1 together with their installation paths. If this function is turned off, you will only know that Product 1 is installed.

Note:
  • Software discovered by the agents is not immediately shown in the Products List window because the information received needs to be consolidated by the server. This activity runs periodically and it can be set in the productInventoryBuilderPeriod parameter of the setserverconf command. By default, it runs every 5 hours.
  • If multiple instance identification is turned on, an instance which is located in a subdirectory in which there is another instance is not discovered.
Select Action
Use the drop-down list to select the action that you want to carry out.

To view the description of actions that you can perform with the table, see Table actions list.

Download as PDF
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