Good Afternoon,
I have created a report in hopes of locating workstations with a particular executable residng on the machine. However, I am receiving no results. I have configured the inventory to include both Files and Directories by placing the appropriate check mark on the Datasource configuration tab. Is this not the appropriate or only measure required? Is this data not collected? When creating the report I am able to select the File(Name) and enter the file that I am looking for. I would assume this means that the data is being collected.
Thank you.
Hi russo1203,
There are a couple of things that may be happening here.
1. In the Inventory Configuration Editor, after you clicked to collect file and directory information on the Datasource Configuration tab, did you click on the "File, Directory and Registry Datasource Configuration" tab to specify which files and directories to include? It is the box near the middle of that tab that references "file system object".
2. If you did specify them there and successfully saved your new Inventory Configuration template, please note that existing scheduled Inventory tasks will cannot use the new Inventory Template. You will need to create a new Inventory task and select "Inventory - include specific datasources", then "Select a pre-defined inventory configuration template", choose your new template, then scheduled it to run as you wish.
-Kelly
Kelly,
I did not add any files or directories on this tab of the Inventory Configuration. As someone that previously utilized SMS 2003, I am used to the .exe information being included in the inventory. I did search and find another post mentioning the use of wildcards is not supported.
Would you say that the functionality is such that one would need to create a special inventory to run and include only the .exe that I am looking for, or is there a way to collect all .exe information and store in the database? Thank you for your time and assistance with this matter.
No, there is not currently a way to gather all .exe information. I'll submit your query (allow wildcards so as to allow gathering information on all files of a particular type during inventory) as a Feature Request to development for review.
Whether to create a special inventory task is a matther of opinion really. If looking for a particular .exe is something you routinely do and you need it to be accurate to the last time a scheduled inventory is run then I would modify an Inventory Configuration template and create new scheduled Inventory tasks using that template to replace my old scheduled tasks.
If it's more of an as-needed activity, or if the particular file in question that you want to look for may change often, I would likely just do a one-off inventory task targeted at the machines you are interested in when needed.
So 2 years later, i am revisiting this. I have created a new inventory seraching for a file. My question is how do I report on this information? Thanks.
