License Tracking Best Practices...

[ezhess]

Keeping track of licensed software is pretty straightforward. But how are you keeping track of unlicensed software, such as Drivers, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader, Etc... I originally created a Group called "Unlicensed Software" and added all those types of software under that group. The problem with this method is anytime I browse to the "Software" tab on the "Unlicensed Software" group it's extremely slow and all of those software versions still show up on the license compliance report. Ideally I would like to tell Lansweeper to ignore certain software altogether.

I would love to hear how others are keeping track of this type of software. Also under Reports there is a software report report for Approved Software, Unapproved Software, and Unrated Software. How do I classify software so it will show in those reports?

Thanks!

[Hemoco · Accepted solution]

Most customers only add the software for which they need a license and they ignore everything else.

[ezhess]

Ok. So is it a bad idea to create my own category and put 100's of Software under it?

[Hemoco]

Currently Lansweeper cannot identify software categories, we are planning this for a future version.

[PeteMWilson]

A decade later, is this available yet? Software in LANSweeper seems to lack a lot of documentation...

[ezhess]

Over 60 Views and nobody cares to share how they manage their software licenses? At least let me know if I'm on the right track with what I've already started, or if I'm a complete idiot. Thanks! 🙂