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Manage applications

Learn how to manage the applications in your Private Application Catalogue in Snow Atlas. For field descriptions, see Add or edit applications: Reference.

Search for applications in SAM Core on Snow Atlas​

Before you create a local application in the Private Application Catalogue, verify that it does not already exist in SAM Core on Snow Atlas. For information on how to search for applications in SAM Core, see View applications, Search for applications, or Advanced search for applications.

Search for applications in the Private Application Catalogue​

  1. On the Snow Atlas settings menu, select Private Application Catalogue.

  2. On the Private applications page, select Applications.

  3. In the table header, select the funnel of the column you want to use for your search, and then do the following:

    1. Select operator: Contains, Does not contain, Equals to, Not equals to, Starts with, Ends with, Is empty, or Is not empty.

    2. In Filter, enter the search criterion.

    EXAMPLE

    If you select Contains as the operator and enter "mic" in Filter, then only applications with "mic" in their names will appear in the table.

  4. Optionally, in the table header, select a column name to sort by that column. Select the column name once again to reverse the sort order.

Add applications​

When you add an application to your Private Application Catalogue, the new application will be available in SAM Core and SaaS Management on Snow Atlas, and you can add licenses to it.

For field descriptions, see Add or edit applications: Reference.

note

You cannot add an application with the same name and manufacturer as an application that already exists in the Private Application Catalogue.

  1. On the Snow Atlas settings menu, select Private Application Catalogue.

  2. On the Private applications page, on the Applications tab, select Add.

  3. On the Application details tab, do the following:

    1. In Name, enter the name of the application as you want it to appear in Snow Atlas.

    2. In Manufacturer, search for and select the manufacturer of the application. The search results for manufacturers previously added to the Private Application Catalogue appear as you enter text.

      If this is a new manufacturer, you are prompted to add it. When the name of the new manufacturer matches a manufacturer globally provided by the DIS, you see a warning where you can select to reuse that one. For more information, see Add manufacturers.

    3. Optionally, in Family, search for and select the family that the application belongs to. The search results for application families previously added to the Private Application Catalogue appear as you enter text.

      If this is a new application family, you are prompted to add it. When the name of the new family matches an application family globally provided by the DIS, you see a warning where you can select to reuse that one. For more information, see Add application families.

      Global application families are associated with their application manufacturers, which means that you can only reuse a global family if you have selected to also reuse the global manufacturer.

    4. Optionally, enter the Edition, Edition index, Version, and Version index for the application. For the Edition index and Version index, only numbers between 1 and 999 are allowed. For more information, see Edition, version, and indexes.

    5. If the application requires a license:

      1. Turn on License required.

      2. In Preferred metric, select the preferred, or default, metric of the application.

    6. In Operating system, select which operating system the application is developed to run on.

    7. Optionally, if this application is an operating system, turn on Operating system.

    8. Do one of the following:

      1. If you want to add recognition rules for the application and also select filters to run these rules against, select Save and continue and then see Add rules to applications, step 4.

      2. If you want to save the application without rules and filters, select Save and finish.
        The new application appears in the list on the Applications tab.

Add rules to applications​

A rule is a search parameter used for identification of an application and for collection of usage information. For on-premise applications, the purpose of a rule is to identify one or more files which are the unique key identifiers of the application. The rules you create will be applicable on the software data that is inventoried by the Snow inventory agents.

If you want to see your inventoried data before you create a rule, you can use filters. For more information, see Manage filters.

For field descriptions and examples of how to set up the search criteria, see Application discovery.

  1. On the Snow Atlas settings menu, select Private Application Catalogue.

  2. On the Private applications page, on the Applications tab, select the application you want to add rules to.

  3. On the Actions menu, select Edit.

  4. On the Edit application page, select the Application discovery tab.

  5. To add rules:

    1. Under Rule, use one or more of the Name definition, Manufacturer definition, Version definition, and Executable path definition parameters to add search criteria that will recognize the application. By default, "%" is used as a wildcard character.

    2. Optionally: If you want to limit the search to data collected from the Windows registry only, turn on Registry key.

      note

      When you turn on Registry key and also add an Executable path definition as a search parameter, that parameter will not be used. All other parameters of the rule will work as intended, but the search will be limited to the data rows from the Windows registry collected by the Snow inventory agent (IsRegistry=1). For more information, see Application discovery.

    3. Select Add.
      The new rule appears in the Added rules list.

    4. Repeat if you want to add more rules.

  6. To add one or several application filters to run the rules against:

    1. Under Filters, turn the toggle on for each filter you want to use.

    2. To review what the rules will recognize in the filters, select Preview.

  7. Select Save.

Edit applications​

For field descriptions, see Add or edit applications: Reference.

  1. On the Snow Atlas settings menu, select Private Application Catalogue.

  2. On the Private applications page, on the Applications tab, select the application you want to edit.

  3. On the Actions menu, select Edit.

  4. On the Edit application page, add or edit the applicable information, and then select Save.

Delete applications​

  1. On the Private applications page, on the Applications tab, select the application you want to delete.

  2. On the Actions menu, select Delete.

  3. Select Delete to confirm.