6.3 Acquiring software information

You can acquire information for software installed on lower-level systems from the managing server.

Software information acquisition is executed while the system is running even if you specify the acquisition execution timing.

Note that information about deleted software is not reported to the managing server, and therefore is not automatically deleted from the managing server. To check the latest software information, delete the package status file of the managing server, and then acquire software information.

The acquisition method depends on the means used to acquire the software information. The following table shows the software information acquisition methods.

Acquisition means	Acquisition method
	First acquisition	Second or later acquisition
Execute a job to acquire software information	Acquires all information.	Acquires all information.
Use the function for automatically reporting updated inventory information	Acquires all information.	Differences from the first acquisition are acquired

The following shows software information that is acquired from the distribution-destination system.

Managing server	Acquired information
Windows (GUI)
Remotely installed software	Information for Hitachi program products and UAPs is acquired.
All software	Search results derived from the search list are acquired in addition to Hitachi program products and other companies' software and patch information#. If you select Specify drive to be searched for, all fixed drives are searched. Other companies' software information and patch information is acquired from the output results of the following command: HP-UX /usr/sbin/swlist -lproduct Solaris /usr/bin/pkginfo -l -c application Command to acquire patch information: /usr/bin/showrev -p AIX /usr/bin/lslpp -lc Command to acquire patch information: /usr/sbin/instfix -ic Linux /bin/rpm -qai

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For systems other than Linux, patch information is not acquired by default. To acquire patch information, delete the patch-information suppressing file by using the following methods. Note that patch information is always acquired for Linux.

• For AIX and Solaris:

  rm /NETMRDS/rdsprm/.ForbidPatchInformation

• For HP-UX:

  rm /var/opt/NETMDMW/rdsprm/.ForbidPatchInformation

To suppress patch information again, create a patch-information suppressing file by using the following methods.

• For AIX and Solaris:

  touch /NETMRDS/rdsprm/.ForbidPatchInformation

• For HP-UX:

  touch /var/opt/NETMDMW/rdsprm/.ForbidPatchInformation

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