The following Inventory Properties can be defined.

• Filter for Software Detection. You can define which software is to be listed by Empirum Inventory: 
  • Empirum. Lists the software which has been installed with Empirum.
  • MSI. Lists the software which has been installed via an MSI package.
  • File scan. Lists the software which has been defined in the "File scan" section.
  • Virtual Application. Lists the software which has been used as a ThinApp application.
  • Registry scan. Lists the software which has been defined in the "Registry scan" section.
  • Other. Lists the software which has not been installed via Empirum or an MSI package.
  • User based installations. Lists the software which has been installed specifically for users.
• File scan
  • File scan buffering. If this option is enabled, then all files on a drive are buffered, and then they are compared to the files in the File scan section. The files in the list are buffered.
  • Drives. Here you can specify which drive is to be buffered. This field has to be filled out if the file scan buffering option has been activated.
• User defined Inventory ID
  • [None]. If nothing is defined, then the registry value HKLM\Software\matrix42\EmpInv,InventoryID is used as InventoryID.
  • Registry Value. The specified registry value is used as Inventory ID.
  • INI Value. The specified INI value is used as Inventory ID.
  • Environment Variable. The specified environment variable is used as Inventory ID.
  • WMI Query. The specified WMI query is used as Inventory ID
• User profile scan
  • Disabled. No user profiles are scanned.
  • Current user profile. Only the profile of the user is scanned, in the context of whom the Inventory Scanner has been started.
  • All local user profiles. All profiles of the local users are scanned.
  • Only domain profiles. All locally saved Domain profiles have been scanned.
  • All user profiles. All existing user profiles are scanned.
  • Autostart. The Autostart links and entries of the specified user profiles are read.
  • Links. The links of the specified user profiles are read.
  • Favorites. The favorites of the specified user profiles are read.
  • History. The history of the specified user profiles are read.
• Additional options
  • Use User Principal Name (UPN) instead of Logon Name. Instead of the Windows logon name (e.g. michael) the UPN (e.g. michael@beispielfirma.xyz) will be determined.
  • Retrieve Asset Tag via Dellinfo.exe. Dellinfo.exe is executed for reading the Asset Tag of Dell Computers from the BIOS. Empirum Inventory (EmpInv.exe) has to be started with the /DMI execution parameter.
  • Retrieve operating system language. Returns the language of the operating system.
  • Scan network drive. If this option is enabled, then network drives are also scanned.
  • Alternate output file. If the output file which has been specified via the execution parameter /O cannot be opened, then the Alternative output file is used.
  • Error log file. Here you can specify the file in which the error messages are written.
• Application Usage Tracking
  • Track all applications without excluded files. No AUT data will be collected for the applications entered in the section Exclude Files - AUT (Application Usage Tracking). For all other applications, AUT data will be recorded and shown in the Empirum Management Console.
  • Track only included files. AUT data will only be collected for the applications entered in the section Include Files – AUT.
  • Make user anonymous. When this option is selected, the AUT data will be recorded with the name Anonymous, instead of the actual user name.
  • Make usage and active time anonymous. When this option is selected, the time the application is open and actively being used will not be recorded.
  • Additional scan of all files related to the operating system. When this box is checked, all system files will be included in AUT.