Notice: Customize inventory in vScope requires administrator priveliges By default, vScope inventories as many assets as possible from a data source. This way vScope will always reflect what’s in your data sources. However, sometimes you might want to customize what vScope inventories, eg. ignoring disabled computers or inactive user accounts. Discovery Manager in vScope includes […]
Windows Defender – Suspicious command launched from remote location
Background To inventory Windows operating systems, vScope uses WMI or WinRM (depending on your preferences). This is called a Discovery. Both WMI and WinRM run scripts from the vScope server to fetch information from a remote (target) server. This can cause antiviruses to trigger alerts related to remote scripting. Windows Defender has a default incident, […]
How inventory of certificates via WMI works
vScope can be used to discover certificates in the local cert store on a machine. For this, vScope uses the WinRM protocol in the WMI probe. There are two options relevant to the certificate inventory in the WMI credential’s advanced options: Following are descriptions of how these two options works. #1 Ignore certificates in the […]
Why are MECM (SCCM) machines missing in vScope?
To be able to match a machine with itself from various data sources, vScope needs a unique identifier. Machines from MECM only show up in the All Machines table and gets a properties page if vScope can find a BIOS serial number. The MECM agent needs to be installed and active on the machine for […]
Why is information about Azure VMs missing
vScope uses Microsoft’s API to retrieve information about the Azure VM’s to vScope. The way the API works, it’s only possible to retrieve a certain kind of information about the VM if it was created using an imageReference. This means that VM’s created from scratch in Azure won’t have information available in the API, so […]
What’s included in License, Health & Metrics?
In order to offer the most basic support, we are collecting limited information about your vScope. This allows us to proactively identify and mitigate license issues, such as reassign license or update license configurations. What’s included? License License information License version License configuration (eg. start/expiry date) Billable unit levels (ie. number of assets) Installation vScope [...
Weird symbols when opening CSV export in Microsoft Excel
vScope’s CSV exports are encoded in UTF-8. If you see wierd symbols when opening it in Excel, it’s probably caused by the settings in Excel. Follow these steps to open the export correctly in Microsoft Excel: Open Microsoft Excel. Click on the “Data” menu. Click on “Get Data” -> “From File” -> “From Text/CSV”. Open […]
Azure integration error “java.lang.RunTimeException: Found duplicate ID’s”
The error “java.lang.RunTimeException: Found Duplicate ID’s” occurs when the Microsoft Graph API returns identical values. For example, Azure may return that users are assigned a service plan twice, same name and guid. This would generate the error message because vScope can’t create a unique identifier. This issue may be resolved by itself depending on what […]
How to retrieve more information from integrations for vScope
vScope is bundled with lots of default information and tags. And although these seem like a lot, they’re far from everything potentially available to you. In this article, we’ll show you how to add more values from the integrations in vScope. You need to be an administrator in vScope to access this feature. Video: Retrieving […]
Getting started with Custom SQL
This guide will show you, step-by-step, how to integrate vScope with an SQL database. We will inventory Computer Systems and a tag, Total Cost, displaying the cost of each asset. This guide, however, is applicable to every asset type and any number of tags. Learn more about the requirements for each asset type. Video: Getting […]