Installed Applications report
The Installed Applications report shows up-to-date information about the individual applications installed on each active When this term is associated with a device, it indicates that the Secure Endpoint Agent on the device is actively connecting to the Absolute Monitoring Center. An Active device consumes a license unless its license expires, or no licenses are available when it is enrolled. Also see Agent status. device in your account.
On the Reports page, you can access this report from Absolute view or the Application category.
To view summarized application information for all devices in your account, go to the Applications page.
Supported platforms
The Installed Applications report shows the applications installed on your active Windows and Mac devices.
Prerequisite
To detect the applications installed on your devices, you first need to activate the Installed Applications policy in one or more policy groups.
Permissions
To view the Installed Applications report, your user role needs to be granted View permissions for Software reports. All default user roles are granted this permission.
Default filters
No filters are applied to the report, but you can refine the report by adding filters.
Information included in the report
The Installed Applications report includes a default collection of application-related information organized in the following columns:
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Device: contains the device name The name assigned to the device in the operating system. For Chromebooks, device name is not applicable and therefore shows as "Chrome" in the Secure Endpoint Console. and serial number The identification number assigned to the device by the device manufacturer. For Windows devices, this value may correspond to the serial number of the BIOS, the motherboard, or the chassis, depending on the manufacturer. for the device
To view all applications installed on a particular device, click the linked device name to open the device's Device Details > Applications page.
- Username Username of the user who was logged in to the device when an agent connection occurred. If no user was logged in during the most recent agent connection, the last detected username shows. If you are viewing a report and want to see if a user was logged in during the most recent connection, add the Current Username column to the report. If no user was logged in at the time of the connection, "No Data" or two em dashes (— —) show in the column.
- OS Name The name and version of the operating system detected on a device. The operating system is software that manages the software and hardware installed on a computer and allows programs and services to run. It is responsible for the basic operations of a computer system.
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Application name: the detected name of the installed application
To view the normalized name of the application, add the Application column to the report.
- Version: the full version number of the installed application
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Application Health > Health: the health status of the application
This column is only available when an Absolute Resilience product1 is associated with your account. View my licenses
Health statuses
| Health status | Details |
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| Healthy | Indicates that no issues were found in any health check stage and the application is deemed to be healthy |
| <Unhealthy reasons> |
Shows the issues that are causing the application to be unhealthy |
| Unknown |
Indicates that application health information is not available Why is health information not available?
When any of the following conditions apply, application health information is unavailable and a status of Unknown is reported:
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- Publisher A company or organization selling software applications that is detected by a device's Secure Endpoint Agent and reported in the Secure Endpoint Console.: the normalized publisher name
- Installed: the date and time (local device time A date and time expressed in a device's local time zone, as opposed to server time. In the console, local device time applies to usage data collected from devices, and the scheduling of some device action requests.) when the application was installed on the device
- Install location: the full path to the location where the application is installed on the device
Note that each row in the report shows information about a single application installed on a single device.
To view all applications installed on a particular device, do one of the following:
- Search the report for the device
- Filter the report by device name
- Click the link in the Device column to open the device's Device Details > Applications page
To view the list of devices on which a particular application is installed, do one of the following:
- Search the report for the application
- Filter the report by application name
- Go to the Applications page
Searching the report
You can search for a device, application, publisher, or user.
To search, enter all or part of a keyword in the search field and click Search or press Enter.
Sorting application information
By default, the page's data is sorted by device name, in ascending order. To sort the data by another column, click the column heading. To reverse the sort order, click the column heading again.
Working with the report
Depending on the Absolute licenses associated with your account, and your user role, you may be able to perform some or all of the following tasks from the Installed Applications report:
- Open and view the report
- Adjust the columns on the report
- Add or remove filters
- Export the report
- Email the report on a set schedule
- Favorite the report
- Save changes to report filters and columns to create a custom view or a new report
Working with devices in the report
