Managed software item attributes

Main: General

Attribute name	Description
Status	A managed software item can have following system statuses: Created Waiting for approval Active End of life Retired See also: Managed software life cycle.
Manufacturer	Choose the software manufacturer from the popup window. You may add/remove software manufacturers from this popup window. This field is mandatory.
Product name	Enter the product name. This field is mandatory.
Version	Enter the version number (or name) of the product. This field is mandatory.
Language	Enter the product language. This field is optional.
License key	Enter the license key of the software. Note! this can be used in all packages built of this managed software. See, using package variables. This field is optional.
Category	Select a category for the software using the drop down menu provided in this field. The category specifies the type of the software (e.g. office application). You can edit the existing software categories or create new software categories by using the software categories view.
Software platform	The operating system platform for the managed software can be selected here (Windows / Other / Linux / macOS / OS X).
Quality index rule	Quality index rule (Allowed/Not allowed) determines whether this software is considered as allowed or prohibited software when calculating Quality Index. In other words, this quality index rule allows you to white/black list applications. If Quality index rule = Not allowed and the software has been installed to a computer, the software is considered as prohibited software, thus decreasing the particular quality index of the computer and surrounding environment.
Media folder	Enter the path to managed software media folder on the installation point.
Software owner	A software owner is a single person responsible for the managed software item in Miradore. This field is optional.
Description	You may enter free description of the managed software . This field is optional.

Main: Software identification

Attribute name	Description
Identify by	This field defines the method how the Managed software item is reconciliated with the inventoried software information. The options are: Software catalog - When this value is selected, the software identification is based on the software catalog. Custom rules - When this value is selected, the software identification is based on custom software identification rules defined by administrator. In the custom rules, multiple file attributes like file name, file size, file version, original name, file path, company, product name, and product version can be used to software identification.
Software catalog identification	Name: Select the desired application from the popup window. Use partial matches: When this is disabled, software identification process produces a match only if the file size and software version match exactly with the ones in software catalog. When this is enabled, software identification process produces a match if the following conditions are met: File name matches with the one recorded in software catalog. MajorVersion.MinorVersion of the executables match with software catalog. Examples: 2.2. & 2.2.1 match with each other, but 2.2 & 2.3 don't. The size of the analyzed file differs at most 10% from the file size in software catalog. Other matches, from the same license unit, are not found. The use of partial matches is helpful when, for example, minor version updates (v. 2.2.x) are desired to be considered as the same software (as version 2.2), although they are slightly different. Notice that this setting might be hidden if the use of partial matches has been disabled in "System settings > Main > Software catalog".
File identification rule(s)	You may add rules which are used to identify software based on device's file scan. If software usage measuring is enabled, at least one Add/remove programs or File identification rule must be defined. Otherwise this field is optional.
Add/Remove Programs identification rule(s)	You may add rules which are used to identify software based on device's Add/remove program scan. If software usage measuring is enabled, at least one Add/remove programs or File identification rule must be defined. Otherwise this field is optional.
Software identification requires both file and add/remove programs identification	This field defines whether the software identification requires both: the file and the Add/Remove programs identification. Possible values: Yes/No

Main: License information

Attribute name	Description
License needed	Select yes or no to specify does this software need a license.
License pools	This field shows the list of available license pools.
Package distribution if licenses not available	Defines if the package distribution is allowed if no license is available. (Allow / Allow with message / Deny with message). You may enter the message to be shown into the "Message" field.
Message	The message which is shown to user if "Allow with message" or "Deny with message" is selected from the "Package distribution if licenses not available" -field.

Main: Package information

Attribute name	Description
Enable package building	Enables or disables package building. This field is hidden if installations management features have been disabled from Miradore system settings.
Media folder	Enter the directory path of the software on the Installation point. Note! this can be used in all packages built of this managed software. See, using package variables. This field is optional.
Available packages	This field shows the list of available packages. The icons are used to describe the status of the managed software. - Status: Active - Status: Under work or Waiting for approval - Status: Archived

Main: Software usage

Attribute name

Description

Measure usage

Choose yes/no to measure the usage of this software item.

Notice that software usage cannot be measured if identification of the software is not based on file recognition. This means that there must be a certain .exe file defined, or otherwise the usage of the software cannot be tracked. Software usage cannot be measured using a Add/Remove programs -based identification rule.

This field is visible if it is possible to measure the software usage using the current software identification method.

Monthly thresholds

Enter the monthly thresholds for usage reporting and analysis. Certain usage activity level is reached if one or more thresholds are fulfilled. This field is optional.

Main: Additional information

Attribute name	Description
Attachments	You may attach files into this field. About attaching files. This field is optional.
Comments	You may add comments related to this managed software here. This field is optional.

Item status pane

Attribute name	Description
Total identified	Total amount of installations of this managed software found from managed assets. The same information can be viewed as a graph by clicking the chart icon on the rightmost end of the row.
Licenses allocated	Amount of allocated licenses for installations of this managed software. Notice that if the license is user specific, the same license can be allocated to several assets.
Assets without license	Amount of assets which have this managed software installed, but which do not have a license.