A user asked about reporting application usage for a year - the App Statistics Report only allows you to filter by week, requiring 52 reports per application. Feature requests can be made for single applications, but total instances is listed per user in the App detail report. To get total instances per executable in the App Statistics report, a feature request needs to be made.
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How Long is Data Retention for ControlUp Edge DX Reports?
A user asked about the data retention timeframe for Edge DX Installed Applications reports. The contractual answer is 1 month, but it was suggested that information may not always be true as it depends on the type of data being reported. Installed applications data shows all apps seen in the registry, and should go back to the first app ever installed on the device. It's recommended to download the report monthly and run any additional reports as needed.
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Retrieving Report of Machines with FSLogix Software Installed
A user asked how to get a report showing all machines with the FSLogix software installed. They can view all versions in a list, but found that the details view only showed the top consumers, and wanted to get versions of other software. It was suggested to select the drop down to group by machine, which allowed the user to view a list of machines.
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Finding Versions of an Application to Identify Machines Without it Installed
A user asked if there was a way to generate a CSV export with all versions of an application to identify machines that do not have it installed. It was suggested to use the export option in the ribbon, check the processes list in the controllers and custom filter in the solve details. It was confirmed that custom filter in the solve details would let the user filter each time, which was concluded to be ok.
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Gather Drive Type Information with ControlUp Edge DX
This discussion focused on how to use Edge DX to get drive type (SSD, HDD) information into Edge DX in multiple ways. The user initially wanted to see if the laptops they were using had SSDs or HDDs to troubleshoot a performance issue, and instructions were provided for manually and semi-automatically collecting the data. Edge DX also enables the user to create custom reports and set up persistent data collection, and includes a script to collect CPU temperature. The ControlUp Scripting Guide can be found at https://support.controlup.com/docs/scripting-guide.
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Troubleshooting Linux Device Username Display Issue
A user was having difficulty with a Linux device that was not displaying a user, even though the user was logged in. After various troubleshooting requests from @member, it appears that the issue may have been caused by Wayland. The solution was to switch back to X11 by editing the custom.conf file in nano and uncommenting the WaylandEnable=false line. After reboot, the device should be displaying the username.
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Check License Use in Horizon Environment with a ControlUp Script
A user asked how to use a script to check the license use for a Horizon environment and if it was possible to process the output further, for example to create a report. The reply suggested the user could go to the historical reports and look at the session count for the folder with Horizon machines.
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Requesting Historical Disk Usage in ControlUp
A user asked about the ability to view historical disk usage in ControlUp. To illustrate the need, the current monitoring solution and what would work in ControlUp was provided with screenshots. Sam suggested getting early access to the "sizing recommendations" feature if it isn't enabled yet. @member was mentioned as the contact for the early access and the user expressed thanks for the learning experience.
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Creating Reports on Device Network Connections with ControlUp Edge DX
A user asked if it is possible to create a report based on the last time a device connected to the company's network using EdgeDX. EdgeDX provides the 'netcfg_info' and 'location_history' indexes with information on the public IP and network adapter IP associated at that time. Alternatively, a script can be used to send data to a custom index when an internal IP address is reachable.
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Does Director Trigger Pack Capture Unregistered Instances?
A user asked if the Director Trigger pack can capture an unregistered instance of the server. It can, but the trigger must use "Minimum duration in this state" instead of Uptime. The user set Minimum duration to 10 minutes and removed Uptime.
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