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Software Inventory Dictionary for IBM Director

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Dimarc67

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Feb 23, 2004
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The instructor for IBM's Director workshop (XTR08) mentioned that there is a 3rd party that maintains an up-to-date software inventory dictionary that can be imported into Director.

I have scoured IBM.com, as well as the web at large, and can find no reference to this. (And the instructor no longer responds to e-mails.)

Does anyone have any information regarding this???

Thanks.

David@Dimarc.com
 
Nope. Colleagues attending subsequent training have received no information on this whatsoever. Go figure.

 
I have never seen a 3rd party update for Director's software dictionary, and I've worked with it since v2.11 (the 1st version of Netfinity Director).
 
So, owing to that all is there an updated dictionary available from IBM outside of the default.sid one that comes with the Director install?


I like to keep an eye on things being installed and run on end user systems. There is certainly no way I could keep up with the applications and games being put out. I wouldn't know what information necessary to edit the dictionary with for something like Doom 3.


Does IBM Director really lend itself to this kind of monitoring of end user systems, or should I be look for something else? (SMS?)


I'm new to the IBM Director thing so I admittedly don't know much about it.

 
Director does lend itself to monitoring end-users for most mainstream applications, but not without updating of the dictionary on your own. Someone who has already made updates may make an updated version available, but I would be cautious before replacing the existing version with one provided by someone/someplace unknown. A couple of options to supplement a comprehensive management plan (regardless of the updated software dictionary) are:
1. A Domain policy to prevent end-users from installing software on their own - protect them from themselves.
2. A server-based organizational structure using Director and RDM to facilitate remote system reloads to end-users in the event they pooch their systems.
3. Regularly monitoring resource consumption on end-user systems - this is also part of system planning (for replacement systems) and would let you know when a user suddenly starts pegging cpu & memory resources. IBM Director's Capacity Manager(part if the Server Plus Pack) does this. DOOM will show up here :)
4. Regularly monitoring end-user running processes. Like users should have like processes running - any anomalies beg investigation.

Hope this helps.
 
So dictionary updates are not available even from IBM through a subscription service.

I've tried to find out this information from IBM, but it's like trying to get a horse to drive a car...very difficult.

 
Let me save you some hoofprints on the dashboard. IBM does not have a subscription service for updates to the software dictionary. Fortunately, new releases of IBM Director include updates, but this is hardly a comprehensive update.
 
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