Licensed software report - how?

[#1]

I'm looking for a way to do a simple licensed software count for a
particular computer group, but I am stumped.

I have all my software definitions set up. I can run an Application
Distribution Report against a group, but all that gives me is a breakdown of
every machine, in PDF format.

What I want is something like this is CSV format...

Group Name
Adobe CS 4 30
Adobe CS 5 34
Microsoft Office 2008 67

etc etc blah blah

I must have missed something because this should be simple enough to do. Any ideas? Thanks.

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[#2]

Hi Ollie,

I don't think you can extract a CSV of just the limited fields you are looking for. I believe the best you can do is view the number of computers with a particular app installed. The "View Membership" field under Smart Groups will report all the computer names and that sounds like it is not what you are after.

Cheers,

Mark

[sean]

You may have to look at custom reports to achieve something akin to what you are after.

Sean

[#4]

Thanks for replying guys.

I am very surprised that Casper lacks this basic reporting functionality -
to get a licensed software count for a computer group.

Sure, I can get a computer detail report, but a 300 page (pdf-only) document
is not what what my boss wants.

If I knew how to write in JSP I could have a go at a custom report, but I
don't.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

[Kevin]

I too, am being asked for something like this. Just a basic listing of applications with numbers. I don't need details regarding every dot release version.
Just as mentioned above:
MS Office 2011: 342
Adobe CS6: 51

The current Application report report gives me a a separate line item for each MS Office dot version like
MS Office
14.01: 23
14.0.2: 12
14.0.3: 2
etc…
Then a total for version 14.x

I would like to skip the details, and just get the total. And I would like to be able to specify more criteria, like department, for the search.

Has anyone done this with a custom report that you would be willing to share?
JAMF? This seems like basic reporting functionality… Thoughts?

[powellbc]

Agreed, I am surprised this is not built in. I quickly hit the limits of what can be reported against in the console.

[tomt]

Anyone have any ideas? Powers that be are asking for a simple overview report of our environment.