Software

The Software section provides detailed list of software currently installed across devices in your estate. This includes the software's name, version, publisher, and installation date. This helps to manage software efficiently, reducing redundancy, optimizing costs, and maintaining compliance across your estate.

Software Inventory

The Software Inventory page under Software shows you software data obtained by the Ivanti Agent Inventory Scanner. You must have the Ivanti Agent deployed to managed devices to see Software Inventory data.

The Software Inventory page comprises a table with four tabs:

Manufacturers: Lists the software manufacturers discovered, showing the number of Products, Users, and Installs for each. Click the numbers in the Products or Installs column to see the corresponding tabs filtered for the selected manufacturer.
Titles: Lists the software titles discovered, showing the number of Versions, Users, and Installs for each. Click the numbers in the Versions or Installs column to see the corresponding tabs filtered for the selected product.
Versions: Lists the software versions discovered, showing the number of Users and Installs for each, and whether the software has been set to Is Prohibited. Click the numbers in the Installs column to see the Installs tab filtered for the selected version.
Installs: Lists the software installs discovered.

You can use the search field to search for values in the table. For the Titles, Versions, and Installs tabs, you can use the column chooser column chooser icon to customize which columns are visible.

Above the table are two check boxes:

Show Apps Only: Selecting this filters the table to show only items with the Category set to App. This hides other categories such as Component, Installer, Hotfix, and so on. You can edit the Category of an item as described below in Editing software.
Show Discovered Values: By default, matched items are shown with a single name. For example, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp, and Microsoft Corporation all appear as Microsoft. Selecting Show Discovered Values shows the original values. You cannot edit the discovered values.

Filtering data

Filters help you find the data you are interested in. Applying a filter with one or more properties limits the list to rows matching the filter.

To create a filter:

Next to the search field at the top of the table, click the filter button.
Select the Boolean operator you want to use in the filter, either And, Or, Not And, or Not Or.
Click the plus sign next to the Boolean operator and select Add Condition or Add Group. Use a group to link more than one filter property together with a separate Boolean operator.
When you add a condition, a set of drop-downs appear enabling you to create the condition.
Select the property you want filtered, the filter type (such as Equals or Does not contain), and then the value to be filtered.
Repeat steps 3-4 if you want additional properties to be part of the filter.

To clear the filters applied to the page, click clear filter icon .

To apply the filter, press Enter in the last filter property or click somewhere else on the page.

To reset grid personalization, that include column width, order, visibility and sorting, click

Exporting data

You can export each of the tabs separately.

To export the data:

On the Software Inventory page, select the required tab, then click .
Select Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) or Text (.csv) as required.
The content of the tab is exported. You can export maximum up to 100,000 rows.

Showing evidence

Software Inventory provides information about the software installed in your estate, based on evidence from a number of sources such as the presence of certain files, shortcuts, installer registry entries, and so on. You can view this evidence from the Installs or Versions tabs.

From the Installs tab, click at the end of the row, then click Evidence to display the evidence.
From the Versions tab, click at the end of the row, then click Evidence to display a list of devices where the version is installed. Click the required device to see the evidence.

Editing manufacturers

The same manufacturer is often discovered with different names. For example, Microsoft is often also discovered as Microsoft Corp or Microsoft Corporation. In cases such as this, where the different manufacturer names are recognized as the same manufacturer, a single name is used by default. You can edit these definitive names by clicking at the end of the row, then clicking Edit to display the Edit manufacturer panel. To see the original values, select Show Discovered Values. You cannot edit the discovered values.

If you edit a Manufacturer to have the same name as another, they are combined unless Show Discovered Values is selected. For example, if Vantosi has 5 installs and Vantosi, Inc has 3 installs and you rename Vantosi, Inc to Vantosi then a single record, Vantosi, appears with 8 installs and all references to Vantosi, Inc on the other tabs are updated to Vantosi.

Editing software

To edit a software item, on the Titles, Versions, or Installs tabs, click at the end of the row, then click Edit.

Updates to items on the Titles tab also update the corresponding items on the Versions and Installs tabs, and updates on the Versions tab also update the corresponding items on the Installs tab. Updates made on later tabs do not update previous tabs.

You can add valid UNSPSC Codes by selecting them from the list. You can filter the list by typing either the UNSPSC code name or number. These codes can help you to identify the purpose of the software you have installed across your site and so identify where you have multiple software titles performing the same function. This then helps you to make decisions about where you can consolidate software titles to cut costs and reduce security risks.

Prohibited software

There may be software titles that you do not want installed in your estate. You can mark such titles as Prohibited and then identify the installed instances of such software so that you can initiate your organization's software removal procedures.

To mark a software title as Prohibited:

On the Versions tab of the Software Inventory page, select the check boxes alongside the titles you want to prohibit.
On the Actions menu above the table, click Prohibit.
The Prohibited column updates. You can use the Allow menu item to undo this action.

To identify installed instances of Prohibited software:

On the Versions tab of the Software Inventory page, click .
The filter definition area appears above the table.
Create a filter that sets the condition Is Prohibited Equals true.
Click the number in the Installs column.
The Installs tab appears, showing the devices where the software is installed along with the user's name.

Software Usage

The Software Usage page under Software shows you information about how much the software installed in your organization is used.

You can also access Software Usage from the Data Tools section of the Spend Intelligence navigation bar if you have the appropriate license.

At the top of the page are charts that show to top 5 most unused and most used software items. Click the columns in the chart to filter the grid below.

The grid on the page shows all discovered software and lists the number of installations of each, including the numbers of installations that have used the software in the previous 30, 60, and 90 days. Installed software that has not been used for 91 days or more is considered to be unused. Installations where no usage data is found are excluded from the grid.

Click the numbers in the Installs column to see more information about the usage of that product on each device where it is installed. This includes when it was last launched, the number of times it has been launched, and the number of minutes it was used for. Remember to check the Last Scan Date to see how recent the data is.