The OCS-NG agent does an amazing job to pull out, and identify the installed software. In this way, we get to have an inventory filled with applications on every machine. It helps the process of software auditing and licensing, but that is not enough.
There are certain situations, when we may want to customize the way we track some registry keys. This is when the Registry query function pops into the picture. Thanks to this feature, we are able to manually specify the keys inside the registry hives that we plan to track. Sometimes, we may want to audit some fields due to malicious content. Other times we may want a second check for software that might not have been installed as they should have been.
The following screenshot shows the Registry requests function:
The previous example is just for exemplification purpose. We can seamlessly identify games made by Blizzard Entertainment without registry querying too. The same goes for Valve's Steam, but...