Installed software version as dci

[Egert143]

Hello

Is it possible to monitor specific installed software version via installed agent and get the result as dci ?

Egert

[Filipp Sudanov]

If you mean versions available in Software Inventory, this information is available in System.InstalledProducts agent's table. So you can use a script DCI or a Internal "Dummy DCI" and transformation script. In the script $node->readAgentTable("System.InstalledProducts") would return the table.

[TOLeg]

Could you describe the implementation of this solution in more detail?

[Filipp Sudanov]

Make a script named getPackageVersion in script library:

packageName = $ARGS[1];
if (packageName == null) return "package name not provided to script";
for (s : $node->softwarePackages) {
  if (s->name == packageName) {
    return s->version;
  }
}

Then create a script DCI with metric e.g.:

getPackageVersion("curl")

The script is using information about packages collected during configuration poll, so it will provide a value even if the agent is not available at the moment.