Creating Local Software Products - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - ASSET INVENTORY REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Reference Manual

This panel shows Local Software Products that have already been created, along with the following
details:
Manufacturer: The manufacturer of the product.
Product: The name of the product. Click the product name to open the Local Software Product
Detail page where you can edit product and file details.
Version: The product version.
File: A list of files associated with the product.
Installations: The number of installations of the Local Software Product in the Management
Zone.

6.3 Creating Local Software Products

Local Software Products are created from software files associated with a product. Before you can
create a Local Software Product, you need to run an inventory scan that has been configured to
search for those files. For information on configuring and running an inventory scan, see
"Scanning Managed Devices," on page 13
page 51.
To create local software products:
1 In ZENworks Control Center, click Configuration, then click the Asset Inventory tab.
2 In the Local Software Products panel, click either New > Create from Software Files by
Machine or New > Create from Unique Software Files.
Clicking Create from Software Files opens a report definition that you can run to list all the
software files on each machine in the Management Zone according to the way the inventory
scan was configured.
Clicking Create from Unique Software Files opens a report definition that you can run to list all
the software files that are not associated with a known software product as identified in the
ZENworks Knowledgebase. The files are identified using Version Recognition Block (VRB)
product information.
104 ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Asset Inventory Reference
and Chapter 3, "Scanning Inventory Only Devices," on
Chapter 2,