Scanner messages (Internal)

OctoSAM internal query

Internal queries are advanced queries for analysis of the inner workings of the OctoSAM application. These queries are geared towards administrators with an in-depth knowledge of OctoSAM.

Messages reported from the OctoSAM Inventory scanner.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
Within	timespan

Fields

Name	Type	Visible	Description
Imported	date	true	Date/Time of last write to this entity
Scanned	date	true	Date/Time of the scan (time from the scanned system - clock may be out of sync with global time)
Import Guid	guid	true	GUID of the imported .scan file
Sequence Number	numeric	true	Order in which the messages were read from the .scan file.
Message ID	numeric	true	A unique number that identifies warnings and errror messages generated by the scanner
Severity	string	true	Severity of a log message. (I=Info,W=Warning,E=Error)
Message	string	true	Text of a log message
Machine Id	numeric	false	OctoSAM internal ID of this Machine entity
Machine	string	true	Distinct machine name. Use Column Chooser to show partial values such as Name or Domain of machines
Machine Name	string	false	Machine name (computer name)
Machine Domain Name	string	false	Windows NETBIOS Domain Name
User Id	numeric	false	OctoSAM Inventory internal ID of the user entity
User	string	true	Distinct user name. Use Column Chooser to show partial values such as Login Name, Domain or Display Name of users
Directory Mail	string	false	Mail attribute from Active Directory
User Principal Name	string	false	UserPrincipalName from the directory service
Login Name	string	false	Access
User Domain Name	string	false	Domain of the logged on user
Tag	string	true	Tag value to identify the scanner instance. Can be configured per scanner.
Octoscan Build Info	string	true	Detailed build information about the build of the scanner which produced the scan
Scanner Base Folder	string	false	Folder from where the scanner was started
OctoSAM Build Info	string	false	Scanner build information
Runtime Info	string	false	Scanner runtime information
Windows Code Page	numeric	false	Windows Code Page of the imported file
Encoding	string	false	XML Encoding of the imported file
Current Date Time	date	false	Date and time the query was run. For reference if you use and save query results.

Main entities referenced from this query

• ImportControlMessage

• ImportControl

• Machine

• User

Query information

Property	Value	Description
Query Guid	5fa50419-6379-411c-a198-abd5ad260439	The internal id of the query. Must be unique
SupportsDesktop	true	If true, the query can be started from the OctoSAM Windows GUI
SupportsWeb	true	If true, the query can be started from the OctoSAM Web UI
LastUpdate	2025-09-10 17:27:37	Last change to this document
Build	1.11.6.94	OctoSAM build that last changed this document