Use BigFix Inventory to collect different file extensions such as jar files

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By default BFI collect the following file types below but you can customize this and find for instance .jar files as well. by following the instructions in this link - https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/9.5/inventory/Inventory/planinconf/optimizing_scanned_file_data.html

The following files are defined in the file_names_all.txt to be reported by default:

\.ear$

The following files are defined in the file_names_unix.txt to be reported by default:

\.sh$
\.bin$
\.pl$
\.ear$
\.SH$
\.BIN$
\.PL$
\.EAR$

The following files are defined in the file_names_win.txt to be reported by default:

\.exe$
\.sys$
\.com$
\.ear$
\.ocx$
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so to add scanning for JAR files, you would add

\.jar$

to file_names_all.txt on the BFI server?

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Yes, but that could end up uploading a lot more data to the BigFix Inventory server. I believe a better approach would be custom signatures specific to log4j*.jar, and I believe the Inventory team is working on producing those.

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I agree for this particular case, but this post is not specific to log4j only, more if you want to track all JAR files with Inventory.

This is true, would be a lot more data for the Inventory server to handle.

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BigFix Inventory team is working on signatures specific to log4j jar files that will be published to bigfix.me site

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Did you add .jar$ to file_names_all.txt and collect it properly through scanning?
I’m trying to scan in the same way as above, but it doesn’t work.