KACE Systems Management Appliance 13.0 Common Documents - KACE Service Desk Administrator Guide

Conditional rules: These rules test whether conditions exist on devices. When a rule returns true, the KACE Agent reports the item as an Installed Program. When the rule returns false, the item does not appear as an Installed Program.

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Value Return rules: These rules obtain data from devices. If the value exists, the KACE Agent reports the item as an Installed Program and sets a corresponding Custom Inventory Field.

Create Custom Inventory rules

How Custom Inventory rules are implemented

Syntax for Custom Inventory rules

You can create custom applications, and Custom Inventory rules for those applications, so that information about the applications is gathered from managed devices.

Go to the Software Detail page:

Log in to the appliance Administrator Console, https://appliance_hostname/admin. Or, if the Show organization menu in admin header option is enabled in the appliance General Settings, select an organization in the drop-down list in the top-right corner of the page next to the login information.

On the left navigation bar, click Inventory, then click Software.

Select Choose Action > New.

Provide general information: Name, Version, Publisher.

For proper downstream reporting, enter this information consistently across software inventory.

Provide the following information:

Option	Description
Assign To Label	(Optional) The label associated with the item.
Notes	Any additional information you want to provide.
Supported Operating Systems	The operating systems on which the application runs. Applications are deployed only to devices with the selected operating systems.
Custom Inventory Rule	(Optional) The custom inventory rules to apply to the application. Custom inventory rules enable you to detect applications and other items on a device and capture details for reporting. For example, the appliance first verifies whether an application is present on a device before deploying that application. In some instances, however, installed programs do not register in Add/Remove Programs or in standard areas of the registry. In such cases, the appliance might not be able to detect the presence of the application without additional information from the administrator. Therefore, the appliance might repeat the installation each time the device connects. Custom Inventory rules can prevent this repetition. The following rule verifies that the version of the Network Associates VirusScan installed on a device is newer than a given version before deploying it: RegistryValueGreaterThan(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\Network Associates\TVD\ Network Associates\TVD\Shared Components\ VirusScanEngine\4.0.xx,szDatVersion,4.0.44)

Next to Upload and Associate File, click Choose File to locate a file, then click Open or Choose.

To distribute applications using Managed Installations or File Synchronizations, you need to associate the actual application files with the application.

To prevent the file from being copied to Replication Shares, select Don’t Replicate Associated File. This setting is useful for large files that you do not want users to install from Replication Shares, such as software suites.

Optional: Select a Category and Threat Level for the software.

Click Save.