Using Agent Client Collector for Visibility

When Agent Client Collector for Visibility (ACC-V) is installed on your Windows, Linux, or macOS servers, various information is collected depending on what other features or products you have installed.

Discovery performed by ACC-V is compatible and can coexist with horizontal IP-based Discovery. See Using push-based Discovery and horizontal IP-based Discovery together.

ACC-V can collect data for uses cases with the Intel vPro® platform when the Intel ® EMA application is installed on Windows endpoints. See Using push-based Discovery and Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (EMA) together.

With the SAM plugin is installed, ACC-V can collect installed software data to help optimize software spend with SAM basic metering and SAM total usage metrics. You can also retrieve some software edition information. See Using push-based Discovery and SAM together.

ACC-V version 2.3.0 can discover DNS names lists for Windows and Linux CIs. See Discovering DNS names using push-based discovery.

ACC-V version 2.3.0 can detect portable applications, such as Firefox, VLC, Notepad++ etc, for Windows only. See Detecting portable applications using push-based discovery.

ACC-V also supports exclusion list for IPs and Network Interface Controllers (NICs) by filtering out values for IPs and or NICs when creating or updating the host CI and related items. See Setting exclusion lists for IPs and NICs.

ACC-V version 3.0.0 allows you to populate additional data points to the CIs that are discovered and also allows you to filter the type of users you are interested in. See Populating Assigned To attribute in Computer CI for ACC-V and Populating users based on type for ACC-V.