This topic describes the Inventory Software Dictionary Editor window
in IBM® Director.
Introduction
Use
the Inventory Software Dictionary Editor window to add, change, and delete
entries in the software dictionary.
Menubar
- File >
- Refresh
- Refreshes the definition entries in the Available Entries pane.
This option is useful for determining whether another administrator has
made changes to the software dictionary. The changes you save to disk on the
server are immediately updated and displayed.
- New
- Puts the Entry Definition pane in a modifiable
state so that you can begin creating a new software definition.
- Find...
- Allows you to search the Available Entries for
a software dictionary title.
- Selected
- Modify
- Puts the selected definition entry in a modifiable state.
- Delete
- Deletes the selected definition entry from the software dictionary.
- Add File
- Displays a dialog to choose the method of entering the Associated File
Attributes. Enter an associated file manually or select a file from the local
or server file-system drives.
- Edit File Attributes
- Displays the Associated File Attributes dialog for the selected definition
entry.
- Delete File
- Deletes the selected file name from the definition.
Fields
- Available Entries
- This pane groups all software application definitions by predefined categories.
The applications represented in these categories might reside on your systems.
The Default category is used to identify user-defined
entries that have not been assigned to another category. Double-click on a
category to view application definitions, and then single-click on the application
definition to display its corresponding information and executable files in Entry
Definition.
- Entry Definition
- This pane displays the descriptive information for a selected entry and
has two main areas of information:
- Entry Description
- The fields in this panel enable you to provide descriptive information
about the application. The Entry Type field is the
only field in which you must select the entry. You can enter whatever you
like in the other fields. The information in these fields is displayed when
you use the inventory query browser to view Software inventory
information for a selected system or group of systems.
- Associated Files
- This panel contains the main executable or other file names associated
distinctly with the application definition. The associated columns on this
panel, such as Latest Date, are used to further qualify
the matching criteria used by the inventory software scanner.
- Add
- Adds a new file name entry to the definition. Use the Associated File
Attributes dialog to enter the attributes of a file manually. Use a file window
to find a file on the LOCAL file system or the SERVER file system.
註: If
the network drives on the IBM Director Server or
system are mapped using a different user name or password than the username
or password specified for the IBM Director service
during installation (that is, user name and password of the IBM Director support
service), the network drives will be unavailable due to access limitations.
- Edit
- Changes the file name or any of the qualifying criteria of an existing
file name entry. Select a file name entry to activate the button. The definition
entry must be in Modify state.
- Remove
- Removes a file name entry from the definition.