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Please add identification of the public cloud tool Spiceworks Inventory Online, including version information. It would be nice if not only Spiceworks knows which version of the Inventory Online tool is currently running but also our organization. Spiceworks may have different versions running concurrently, e.g. during updates or during beta testing. Such identification may also identify its components and their versions. This may include bots if they become implemented. This may include agents associated with an instance of Inventory Online.
An about button in the GUI might be an interface to access such info.
SNMP might be another interface for such reporting.
A (remote) API call (RPC) might be another interface for such reporting.
This may be included and integrated into the existing export feature.
This may be included into reporting.

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Please add identification of the public cloud tool Spiceworks Inventory Online, including version information. It would be nice if not only Spiceworks knows which version of the Inventory Online tool is currently running but also our organization. Spiceworks may have different versions running concurrently, e.g. during updates or during beta testing. So variant identification like alpha and beta should be included. Further it should include date of release as the release notes may be published days after rollout of a new version. Such identification may also identify its components and their versions. This may include bots if they become implemented. This may include agents associated with an instance of Inventory Online.

  • An about button in the GUI might be an interface to access such info.
  • SNMP might be another interface for such reporting.
  • A (remote) API call (RPC) might be another interface for such reporting.
  • This may be included and integrated into the existing export feature.
  • This may be included into reporting.

Some release notes include a version information of the tool Spiceworks Inventory Online. But this version information is not yet displayed inside the tool itself.
The release notes include a date of the announcement, consisting of day of month and month but no year information. And we may detect only with some workarounds, if we already use the announced update or if the update was published before the tool got updated.

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Although I mentioned it already in the initial post, I prefer not only to have identification of tool and version of Spiceworks Inventory Online, but also of their Spiceworks Collection Agent and Spiceworks Scanning Agent.
In the Windows listing of installed applications, I find an entry Agent Shell. This entry appears once, without any suffix information. But I’ve installed Spiceworks Scanning Agent and Spiceworks Collection Agent on same computer. Installers of both use Agent Shell as part of their name. Both were last created resp. updated on same day. Both installers were signed on same day. How may I know to which Spiceworks agent this single entry in list of installed programs relates and why I can’t see the other agent in that list?