6.4 Applications inventory

GFI LANguard applications inventory provides a list of all applications detected during past scans. This list is used to specify which applications are unauthorized. You can also manually add applications to the list. You can do this by specifying the entire name as well as a partial name specify generic names or part of an application name. Automatically, GFI LANguard scans the list of applications and detects partial names.

To indicate an application as unauthorized:

1. Click on Configuration ► Applications inventory sub-node.

2. From the list of applications detected, locate the application to set to unauthorized by clicking in the Unauthorized on column entry.

Screenshot 59 - Unauthorized application – scanning profile

3. Select the scanning profile for which this application will be set as unauthorized and click Next.

4. GFI LANguard can associate partial names with entries already in the list. As a result, the system will prompt you to confirm whether to apply the same changes also to applications partially have the same name.

5. Click Finish to finalize settings.

Adding a new unauthorized application

To manually add a new application without selecting an application from the applications inventory:

1. Click on Configuration tab ► Applications inventory sub-node.

2. Under Common Tasks, click on Add a new application…

3. The Add unauthorized application wizard is launched. In the welcome, screen click Next to proceed.

Screenshot 60 – Applications inventory wizard

4. Specify application name. Optionally you can also specify version number and publisher. Click Next to continue.

5. Select the scanning profiles on which you would like the unauthorized application (e.g. Full Scan) and click Next to continue.

6. Specify whether changes made will effect applications, which have partial/full name match. Click Next to continue.

7. Review Add application wizard information and click Finish to finalize configuration.