Capturing certain date and time stamps regarding installed software and inventory scans

Products

• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

Is it possible to capture the Software Installed Date in the SMP Server Console?

Environment

ITMS 8.x

Resolution

We can report on software installation that we have deployed to machines, but we cannot report on when a certain application was installed onto a machine that was installed by means other then Symantec Management Agent by default.  If this data is entered into the Registry, WMI, or file, we can of course report this via Custom Inventory.

The following built in reports will provide you with the installation date and time for Software Programs:

Reports  > All Reports > Software  > Delivery > Status > Summary (All Executions).




The Evt_AeX_SWD_Execution Table contains records of all Software program actions, so you will be able to create a report based on this Table in order to see when your Inventory Tasks have run.
Just make sure it is enable to be captured. By Default, "AeX SWD Execution" events should be enabled under the "Global Agent Settings" page (Settings > All Settings > Agents/Plug-ins > Symantec Management Agent > Settings).