Software Product Specific Discovery

Software Product Specific Discovery
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The following list specifies which software products should be discovered and reported by SysInfo™ in addition to all products registered with the native OS software registry.

Table 4.1. Software Product Specific Supported Products

Product Vendor	Product Name	Must Be Running?	Requires Root?	Discovery Process
Apache	HTTP Web Server	No	No	Look for httpd program as: /usr/apache/bin/httpd, /sbin/httpd, /usr/sbin/httpd, /usr/local/sbin/httpd, /usr/local/bin/httpd, /bin/httpd, /usr/bin/httpd Run httpd -v and parse output.
BEA Software	WebLogic Server	Yes	No	Look for a running weblogic process to determine directory where product is installed. If no running weblogic process was found, search directories: /opt, /var/local, /usr/local, /root. If the weblogic directory was found in the previous steps, then look for the weblogic XML registry file and parse it.
IBM	WebSphere Application Server	Yes	No	Look for a running WebSphere process to determine directory where product is installed. If no running WebSphere process was found, search directories: /opt, /var/local, /usr/local, /root. If the product directory was found in the previous steps, then look for the product XML registry file and parse it.
Oracle	Application Server	No	No	Look for the /etc/oraInst.loc file to determine the inventory directory. If no inventory directory was previosuly discovered, look at running processes to find the product directory. If the inventory directory was found in the previous steps, parse each `CompID.properties` file found for each package.
Oracle	Database	No	Yes	Look for a system user named oracle. Invoke a shell as user oracle and search the user's environment variables for Oracle variables indicating directory where product is installed. If the previous step failed, search the oracle user's $PATH for the sqlplus command. If the previous step failed, search the oracle user's home directory for the sqlplus command. If sqlplus was found run it with the -? argument and parse the output.
Sybase	Adaptive Server Enterprise	Yes	No	Look for a running ASE process to determine directory where product is installed. If no running ASE process was found, search directories: /opt, /var/local, /usr/local, /root. If the product directory was found in the previous steps, then look for the product XML or VPD registry file and parse it.
Tibco	Enterprise Message Service	No	No	Look for `tibemsd` in directories: /opt, /var/local, /usr/local, /root, /usr/tibco If `tibemsd` was found run tibemsd --version and parse the output.

Any application which has "Yes" indicated or "Must Be Running?" will likely be undetected if the application is not running when SysInfo is run. For these applications, SysInfo looks at the system process table using the ps(1) command. If the process is not running, in some cases SysInfo will attempt to discover the application by searching standard directory locations such as /opt and /usr/local.

Any application which has "Yes" indicated for "Requires Root?" will not be detected if SysInfo is not run as root (either by being installed by root or being run as root). However, if "No" is indicated the application may still not be detected in some cases where file access permissions of the user running SysInfo are insufficient to open the applications files. Running SysInfo without root privileges is not supported, nor recommended.