General information

Software inventory function enables control over applications installed on the computers of monitored users. It allows to control the legality of programs and multimedia files, in line with  licenses management. In order to collect information about installed programs, you must install the nVision Agent on each of the computers to be monitored.

In nVision 11.5 an "assets" tab has been added, allowing to display resources, applications, licenses and documents saved in the database. To access it, select the Main tab and then select Assets:

The list of folders with their assigned types, the list of applications and licenses, and the document section divided into categories will be displayed on the left side of the screen. The administrator can create his own folders and document categories. These settings are described in the foldery typów zasobów and typy dokumentów chapters.

This chapter focuses on software. The remaining segments of the Assets tab are described in the Assets chapter.

Software

The software section consists of three sections:

•Software audit - displays list of detected applications, enables audit snapshot

•Applications - displays list of applications which installations can be detected by the Agent,

•Licenses - allows to view, modify and add licenses.

Each of  items shown above is described in the following chapters.

In nVision 11.5, programs and software templates have been combined into one object called the 'application'. This allows more application management more powerful and intuitive. Also, the possibility of various settlements of license usage (e.g. per user) has been introduced. To assign a license to an application, the application must be marked as audited.