Managing a software item on a managed computer system

摘要

A method and system is provided of managing a current software item on a managed computer system connectable to a management computer system via a computer network. The method includes identifying, using an agent application, the current software item on the managed computer system, identifying if the current software item is an unauthorized software item; and selectively disabling the unauthorized software item.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions to:
compare plural software item identifiers retrieved from plural managed computer systems of an organization having plural managed computer systems with a software reference list, the software reference list having a list of plural software items, each software item in the list having an associated allow/disallow flag, the allow/disallow flag indicating whether the software item is allowed by the organization on the managed computer system, to identify that one or more of the software items are disallowed software items for one or more of the managed computer systems, the software reference list defining software items as allowed or disallowed by the organization that manages the computer systems; and to automatically, in response to detecting one or more disallowed software items, communicate an uninstall package to the one or more managed computer systems for uninstalling the disallowed software item; wherein the disallowed software items are identified as unauthorized for the organization's managed computer systems by having a disallow flag associated with the disallowed software in the software reference list.