International Business Machines Corporation

Slawomir T Mezyk

Michal S Paluch

Piotr Kania

Pawel Slowikowski

Tomasz L Prudzic

Patryk M Walawender

Monika Grabska

Grzegorz Poniewozik

Bartlomiej Tomasz Malecki

Marcin D Gierlak

An exclusion database is maintained for software discovery scans where directories within a file system are excluded according to discovered software artifacts, scan time parameters, and pre-defined exclusion definitions associated with software applications. A file system tree having directory-specific attributes for causing software discovery scans to limit scanning within the file system.

Software discovery using exclusion

One or more processors determine that one or more memory locations in a client computing device contain one or more software artifacts that provide a match to a first software signature. One or more processors send instructions not to scan the one or more memory locations against a second software signature.

A mechanism is provided for software discovery in an environment with heterogeneous machine groups may be provided. A group comprising computing systems that have similar software program installations is defined. A first scan procedure is performed by scanning each computing system of the group using a first software signature catalogue to identify installed programs. Software signatures of identified installed programs are added to a base installation software catalogue. A second scan procedure is performed by scanning the group of computing systems using the base installation software catalogue to identify installed software programs.

Software discovery in an environment with heterogeneous machine groups

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Marcinkowice, Poland

Slawomir T Mezyk