How to Export a List of All Installed Software Across All VMs for Compliance & EOL Audits

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We’re looking to generate a comprehensive list of all installed software and packages across all virtual machines integrated with InsightVM. This is for compliance reporting, internal audits, and tracking end-of-life (EOL) software.

To clarify, we’re not trying to search for specific software titles on specific assets — instead, we need a full inventory of all detected software across all assets.

Is there a recommended way to do this using Rapid7 — either through built-in reporting, the API, or another supported method?

Any suggestions, scripts, or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

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query builder
navigate to Software tab
it shows all registered installed software which you can export as .csv.

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With ICON, use the jq plugin map(.description) -c as flag and take it from there.

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You can do this in a Warehouse Query if you are dumping it there or on the Console Directly but would be time and resource consuming.. .

i have several queries for this, let me know if you need some guidance or query suggestions.