License unit applications
The Applications tab collects all applications that are part of the currently selected licensed software. This tab is only displayed if the units of the license are selected from the scanned applications list of the software inventory.
The tab provides the following information about the license units:
Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
Name | This column shows the names of all license units. A license unit in this case is any type of software application or tool. |
Version | The version number of the license unit. |
The following topics are provided:
Adding application from custom applications
To add a new application to the selected application list, proceed as follows:
- Click Edit > Add Application from Custom Applications
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The Add an Application from the Custom Applications dialog box appears. It displays all applications of the application catalogue that are not yet a member of the selected application list and are of a monitorable type, that is, MSI or Add/Remove Program. - Select the application to be added from one of the proposed lists.
You can select more than one application at a time by holding the CTRL button while selecting. - Click OK at the bottom of the window to confirm.
If the application list is already assigned to a device or group, a Confirmation window appears in which you may define to directly reactivate the application list for its assigned objects.
Adding from software inventory
Applications can be added to the list of managed applications via the list of installed software generated by the software inventory. Software applications which do not provide all information required for a managed application, will in this case not appear in the list here. To add an application to the list of managed application from the general software inventory list, proceed as follows:
- Click Edit > Add from Software Inventory
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The Add Applications from Software Inventory dialog box appears on the screen, displaying all applications found in the software inventory. - In this window you can select your step in following different fashions:
- The All tab displays the list of available applications in the form of a table with its name and version number.
- The Search tab allows you to search for a specific application either by its name, version or type attribute. Select the respective value from the Search Fields list. Then enter the words which you are sure the respective attribute contains in the Value box and select the appropriate operator from the precending Operator box and then click Find . The search will query all application name and the following table displays all those which match your condition.
- Select one or more applications to be added to the list of monitored applications.
- Click OK at the bottom of the window to confirm.
A confirmation window appears if the selected application does not yet exist in the application catalogue to which it will automatically be added as well. - In this window you can define the folder into which the application is to be added. By default it is added directly under the main Custom Applications node. To add it to another folder click the icon to the right (...). The Select Folder window appears displaying the folder hierarchy. If the desired target folder does not yet exist you can also create new folders. To do so first select the parent folder of the new one and then select click New Folder
below the hierarchy. The Properties dialog box appears on the screen. Enter the desired data into the respective boxes and then click OK at the bottom of the window to confirm the new application list folder. Select the target folder and click OK to confirm and to close the window. - If the application list is already assigned to a device or group, another Confirmation window appears in which you can define to directly reactivate the application list for its assigned objects.