System information

Figure 20. Software Inventory
To obtain information from the Software Inventory service, TME 10 NetFinity uses
a built-in database (for example, DEFAULT.SID file), where all the product
information can be found for the inventory process. By choosing the Inventory
pull-down menu you can select different inventory functions such as:
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Full Directory Search
This function looks for all the products defined within the inventory database
(.SID file) and tries to find all products in the workstation. The output lists all
the products, which were found including a lot of different additional
information such as the location, where the products are installed (see
Figure 20).
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Selected Product Search
When using this function, you will be asked to select one or more of the
products from the database, which are being searched for in the workstation.
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Product Type
You may also only look for a specific type of product. All the software
products are divided in product categories such as communication, text and
database products.
The display of the product information in this software inventory is identical,
independent of the type of search which has been run. In our example in
Figure 20 a full directory search has been used. You will get detailed
information about the products such as:
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Product name
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Vendor name, which is the name of the manufacturer
•
Version and revision level of the product
•
Location, which means the drive and subdirectory information where the
product is installed
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Description of the product, which is also part of the product database
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