Job Management Partner 1/Asset Information Manager Administrator's Guide

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2.4.12 Managing the installed software update history (Update History)

By using the Update History job menu, you can manage the update history for software installed on devices.

The software change log is collected when JP1/Software Distribution inventory information is collected. To manage the software change log, you must be linked to JP1/Software Distribution.

Even when the contents collected from inventory information are changed via window operations, the information remains in the change log. However, installed software information added in a window operation is not collected into the change log if it is deleted before the inventory information is assigned.

You manage the software change log by clicking the Update History job menu to display the Update History window. The following figure shows the Update History window.

Figure 2-57 Update History window

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If you click on an Asset No. link in the change log search results list, the Device Details dialog box is displayed, enabling you to browse the associated software details.

Organization of this subsection
(1) Collecting the change log at specified times
(2) Information collected in the change log

(1) Collecting the change log at specified times

In the Update History window, specify, as a search condition, a period for which to acquire the update history for the installed software. By performing the search, you can determine the software programs that were installed on the device during the specified period. This is also helpful for checking the devices on which specific software is installed. When you want to know the time that software was installed on a device or the change log associated with the software for each device, select the group that you are managing, specify in Update date the start date and end date of the log that you desire, and perform the search.

If the start date is omitted and only the end date is specified, the log is collected from the earliest date that the inventory information log was collected until the specified end date.

If the end date is omitted and only the start date is specified, the log is collected from the specified start date until the most recent log date.

(2) Information collected in the change log

The information collected in the change log is software information that can be set with Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel of Windows.

When JP1/Software Distribution inventory information is being collected, a log is collected whenever changes occur in any of the following information (note that software inventory information is not collected):

A log is also collected whenever any of the following items is edited from an Asset Information Manager window operation:

A change log is not collected for managed items added to user properties.

Note
When a version upgrade is performed from an Asset Information Manager 07-10 asset management database, the inventory information collection performed immediately after the migration does not result in collection of a log of deleted anti-virus products information or Microsoft Office information.
For this reason, you should collect inventory information after migrating the asset management database.