Software Data Harvesting

We are introducing a BigFix Inventory Catalog Enhancement program. The purpose of this program is to provide BigFix Inventory clients with better discovery capabilities adjusted to software installed on their Windows endpoints.

The Software Data Harvesting Tool for BigFix Inventory is part of this program. It collects installed software data from selected by client subset of their Windows endpoints which then can be sent to BigFix Inventory for analysis and inclusion in the BigFix Inventory Software catalog. This will greatly improve client’s experience with BigFix Inventory.

At this moment, the Software Data Harvesting Tool for BigFix Inventory is supported on Windows only.

The tool consists of one VBScript file. A user can run the script using a fixlet or as a standalone tool if BigFix client is not installed on the endpoint. Harvested data is placed inside a compressed file. The user can review the harvested data before uploading it to the HCL servers.

This document provides information about the tool, its requirement, design and the output received using the tool.

Deliverable

Only the program/script is deliverable.