Application Persistence policies for Lenovo Vantage

Maximum Lenovo® PC performance with minimum IT workload. Lenovo Vantage (Vantage) is a client-side application that runs on Windows 10 PCs.

You can activate an Application Persistence policy to collect information about the functional status of Vantage installed on your Windows devices and view the results in reports. You can also configure the policy to attempt to repair or reinstall the client.

Application Persistence policies for Vantage are supported on devices running a supported version of the Windows operating system and the following version of Vantage:

  • 3.x or higher

    NOTE  Significant software changes in higher versions may cause health checks to become invalid.

If you select Report higher versions as Compliant, higher versions report Compliant without running health checks.

You can configure an Application Persistence policy for Vantage to enable the Application Persistence (RAR) component A lightweight software component of the Absolute agent that detects the status of third party applications installed on a device. The component may also attempt to repair the third party application if it is non-compliant. The RAR component is deployed on a device only when the device is associated with a customized policy group and that policy group's Application Persistence policy is activated. to attempt to repair Vantage if it's not functioning, or reinstall it if it's missing or can't be repaired.

NOTE  Depending on the Absolute product licenses associated with your account, the Report and repair option, and the Report, repair, and reinstall option may not be available.

The RAR component of the Absolute agent can respond to the following issues:

Issue

Resolution
Repair

The LenovoVantageService (LenovoVantageService.exe) isn't running

The RAR component restarts the service.
Reinstall

The LenovoVantageService (LenovoVantageService.exe) isn't installed

The RAR component downloads and installs the configured version of the application.

NOTE  Downgrades are not supported. If the version installed on a device is higher than the expected version, no action is taken.

Vantage failed to be repaired, or the expected version isn't installed

The installer:

  • must be a ZIP file that contains an MSIXBUNDLE file

    The ZIP file can be downloaded directly from Lenovo and doesn't require any preparation.

  • can have any file name

Before you activate an Application Persistence policy you need to configure the policy. You need to configure the application version in addition to the settings in Configuring Application Persistence policies.

To configure the application version:

Enter the version in Lenovo Vantage version.

  • The target version must be a sequence of digits separated by a period.
  • You can use wild card "*" characters after the major version, for example, 3.* or 3.7.*.

IMPORTANT  Make sure the version you are entering is consistent with version 3.x or higher.