Identifying thousands of applications by their “.exe”?

[dotjock]

Does anyone know of a database or listing of applications with their .exe footprints? I have a database listing of about 1.5 million executables from scanning our 4000 plus PC network. Have identified MS products but not the rest without manually searching Goggle one executable at a time (i.e. not an option).

 

[bsharm1]

The Tivoli (IBM) Inventory product uses a signature file that contains a listing of 20,000+ files. Try checking

http://www.tivoli.com

to see if you can access this file.

regards,

-Bharat

 

[dotjock]

bsharm1 ... So far out of Tivoli's library of 10,000+, it has identified about 5,000 of the 1.5 .exe's (with dups) found through scans. That leaves about 99% of the scan results unidentified. Reason: One application may have 50 or so exe's but Tivoli only looks for one key exe or dll to register a "hit," ignoring the remaining 49 (arbitrary example.) We need to be sure we have identified all exe's and the apps they map to. Will never be 100% but am hoping we can get closer than the 99% we have today.

 

[Zelandakh]

not freebies but blue streaks track-IT or visual audit pro. Loads of other audit tools that check not only .exe but dll and other stuff.

 

[RodTrent]

Looks at Microsoft Systems Management Server. Much kinder and cheaper than Tivoli. SMS 2003 is due to release next month and application inventory is very robust.

Rod Trent
Microsoft.MVP.SMS
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