Collector
A tiny daemon that wakes on schedule, takes a full inventory, and disappears. Linux. Windows. macOS. One agent. Free.
Quiet by design
Idle until needed.
Negligible until done.
No constant monitoring. No background hum. The Collector daemon stays asleep until its scheduled time, runs a small set of structured queries against native OS telemetry, and packages the answer as a compact JSON payload.
Then it goes back to sleep. Daily, weekly, or monthly. Your call.
What it sees
Four streams. One source of truth.
Software
Installed applications, publishers, versions, install dates. The foundation of every license decision.
Hardware
CPU model, cores, RAM, disk, virtualization markers. Everything engine-based licensing needs.
Processes
What's actually running, not just installed. The gap between the two is where license waste lives.
Containers
Running containers, image tags, layer detail. Container workloads no longer hide from your SAM program.
Built for trust
Encrypted everywhere. Isolated by design.
End-to-end encryption
Encrypted in transit. Encrypted at rest. Authenticated on every send. The data leaves your device and arrives at LICENSEWARE without ever being readable in between.
Tenant isolation
Strict logical separation by customer and project. Your inventory data stays your inventory data, never crosses boundaries, never leaks.
Self-updating
Security and feature updates retrieved automatically. No maintenance windows. No version drift. No agents quietly going stale on a forgotten machine.
Set up in minutes
From sign-up to first scan, fast.
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Generate an API key
Sign in. Create a key. That's the credential the agent uses to send data home.
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Install the agent
Download the binary for Linux, Windows, or macOS at licenseware-collector.com, then push it to your fleet with whatever orchestration you already use, or bake it into your standard OS image.
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Watch the data flow in
Software, hardware, processes, containers. Everything shows up in LICENSEWARE automatically. No second pass, no manual upload.
See it in action
A real scan. A real estate.
A short walkthrough of what Collector finds in production, and how that data turns into license optimization downstream.
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