File Based Discovery is creating Empty software installations for the SWIDTAG when we get the software object as null - Known Error

File Based Discovery is creating Empty software installations for the SWIDTAG when we get the software object as null Description When we enable File-Based Discovery and enable the SWIDTAG we might see some Empty (all fields Empty) software installations/models with discovery source as "SN SWIDTAG Discovery".

The cause is that sometimes we may receive the SWIDTAG data as below: "software":[ {"publisher":null,"name":null,"version":null}, {"publisher":null,"name":null,"version":null}, {"publisher":null,"name":null,"version":null}, {"publisher":null,"name":null,"version":null}, {"publisher":null,"name":null,"version":null},

In these situations, sensors should be able to skip these records for installation creation.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Enable File-Based Discovery and enable SWIDTAG by enabling the property as below: glide.discovery.file_discovery.scan_swid.windows = true

2. Now within environment (File-Based) make sure there are some SWIDTAGs with empty/null records.

3. Now run discovery on that server and check you will see that software installations are created with Empty Publisher, Name, version (all fields are empty) with discovery source as "SN SWIDTAG Discovery".

Workaround Temporarily you can disable SWIDTAG by disabling the property below: glide.discovery.file_discovery.scan_swid.windows = false