(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)
Very frequently, we find ourselves trying to locate all systems with a particular file. Is would be great is DSS SAM could be queried using the Raw data instead of just the software catalog data. While out of box this would only allow for .exe searches, DSS SAM alloes us the flexibility of adding other extensions at any point.
Using BES really isn’t an option, since we don’t know ahead of time what file we may be looking to find. Deploying an analysis when we had a need would only report back those systems which are live. We need some level of historical reporting and while DSS SAM does not provide true historical change reporting (yes, we’d like that too), it has the last system scan info which is better than an analysis which has not or can not run on a disconnected system.