Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution Administrator's Guide Volume 1

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10.3.1 Managing the installed software update history (Update History)

This section describes management of the update history for software installed on devices.

The software update history is acquired when the inventory information is registered into the Asset Information Manager Subset database.

Even when the contents collected from inventory information are changed by means of 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 10-28 Update History window

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If you click on an Asset No. link on the change log search results list, the Device Details dialog box appears, 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 the search condition the period covered by the installed software change logs that you want to acquire. By executing such a search, you can determine the software that was installed on devices during a 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.

(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.

If the information listed below has been changed when the inventory information is acquired from the managing server, the logs are acquired. Note that the software inventory information is not acquired.

If the following items are edited from an operation window of Asset Information Manager Subset, logs are acquired:

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