Custom Software Products Library

A software products library is a set of rules used by the system to analyze software detections and to recognize the products installed on your computers. The current library version is available for download from the Internet in the Software – Software products library – Load updated library menu.

Add New Product

You can add user-defined products and product recognition rules to the library. You can also ask us to add a new product to the standard software products library.

Add a New Custom Product

1. Go to the Detection tab in the upper-right part of the Main Console Window and select a software detection which contains the data on programs that you wish to add to the library.
2. Right-click on the selected detection, go to the context menu and select - Details.
3. The Software Detection Details window opens and displays all information on files and registry entries from the detected machine.
4. In the files list (in the upper or middle part of the window) or in the list of the registry entries (if the window is switched to the View – Registry mode), select a file or registry entry that you want to use to identify the product.
5. Right-click on the item and select - Suggest key rule from the context menu.
6. Either the New rule for recognition based on files window or the New rule for recognition based on system registry window opens, depending on the active viewing mode. Both windows contain a list of identification markers that are pre-set based on the selected item.
7. Click on the Other tab.
8. Click the ... button behind the Product line. The New Product window opens where you can enter the product name, version, publisher as well as other product information. Click OK to close the window.
9. Click on OK in the rule definition window to close it.
10. The rule will be evaluated and the newly added product will appear in the list located in the bottom-left part of the screen.

Creating Cross-Out Rules

If a product contains more executable files or libraries, these files will be displayed in the list of unrecognized files in the upper part of the Software Detection Details window. If you want to hide these files in the list, you can create a cross-out rule for them as follows:

1. Go to the list of products in the bottom-left part of the window and select the product to which these files belong.
2. Then go to the list of unrecognized files and select one file that you wish to cross out, right-click on the file and select - Suggest cross-out rule from the context menu.
3. The New rule for recognition based on files window opens, showing the pre-set recognition markers for the selected file. You can edit any values as necessary. Then click OK to save the rule.
4. All files that meet the recognition rule you have just created will be hidden from the list of unrecognized files.
5. If one rule is not enough to hide all files, create multiple cross-out rules for all remaining files belonging to the product.

Request to Add a New Product to the Standard Library

1. Select Software – Products (software) in the main menu.
2. The Products (software) window opens. Click on the Add button.
3. Provide detailed information about the product you wish to add to the standard library, such as publisher, name, version as well as other information. Confirm Add to standard software products library and click OK.
4. The new product will be listed in the list of products and you can start using it immediately (create licenses etc.). At the same time, the request to add a new product will be prepared and sent by the Collector to our specialists who maintain the Software products library.
5. Once the new product has been added to the library and the new library has been loaded to the system, the system will automatically replace the user-defined product with the new product from the standard library.

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