Application Compliance report

The Application Compliance report (accessible on the Reports page from the Absolute view or the Application category) shows information about the compliance status of application installations on:

The Application Compliance report is also shown when you click Applications > Compliance on the navigation bar.

The Application Compliance report shows information about the applications installed on your active Windows and Mac devices.

To show data in the Application Compliance report, at least one of the following requirements must be met:

To view the Application Compliance report, your user role needs to be granted the View permission for Software reports. All default user roles are granted this permission.

No filters are applied to the report, but you can refine what's shown by adding filters.

Each row of the Application Compliance report shows the compliance status of a specific application installation on a device, based on an application policy. If a device has multiple versions of the same application installed or multiple policies applied to it (for example, both a Required Applications policy and an Application Resilience policy), each version or policy is reported in a separate row.

The report includes a default collection of information organized in the following columns:

  • Status details: when a device's Status column shows Non-compliant or Missing, this column shows the reason why the application does not comply with the policy

    For all other statuses, the Details column shows No data.

    To see all devices that are not compliant for the same reason, add the Status details is <reason> filter.

  • Policy group: the policy group that the device belongs to

You can add more device information to the report, such as 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., by adding more columns.

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 name column to open the device's Device Details page, then click the Applications tab

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

If the Secure Endpoint Agent detects application changes on a device, the new data is uploaded on the next agent connection, which is typically within the next 15 minutes. The device's application compliance status is reevaluated at that time.

How frequently is data collected from a device?

You can search for a device, application policy, application, or policy group.

To search, enter all or part of a keyword in the search field and click Search or press Enter.

By default, the page's data is sorted by policy name, in descending order. To sort the data by another column, click the column heading. To reverse the sort order, click the column heading again.

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 Application Compliance 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 on the devices in this report: