How the software discovery mechanism works for SAM?

[Priya Bonam]

As part of discovery , we manually run or schedule the discovery to discover the CI's on network and updates into CMDB. Here my question is how software discovery runs to find the software installs and updates in respective table. Is there any way to run it manually? or where i can see the phases such as scanning, classifying , identifying and exploring? Please help me to understand the actual mechanism of software discovery for SAM.

[Priya Bonam]

Thanks for this information.is there a way that we can control this discovery to check new software installs in devices on network? (as like hardware CI's i.e, with IP ranges and MID server).

[KesavanM]

How does the install count on cmdb_sam_sw_discovery_model table is updated