Would like to include additional attributre from AddRemove program to the Hardware inventory

Question

Hi,
I know how to extent the inventory to pickup custom info.  I would like now to add 1 field to existing inventory that picks up the add/remove program info.  By default following fields are collected: Prod ID; DisplayName; InstallDate; Publisher;
Version.  I would like to add the "InstallSource".
I've updated configuration.mof and added the field to the section at the top, copied to my CAS, checked dataldr.log all fine. imported *.mof to my test machine running wbemtest I can see the additional field, now when I try to either import/add from
Client default setting, i'm not able to do so, as this is greyed out and I'm not able to select additional field.
extract from my configuration.mof
class Win32Reg_AddRemovePrograms
    [key]
        string    ProdID;
    [PropertyContext("DisplayName")]
        string    DisplayName;
    [PropertyContext("InstallDate")]
        string    InstallDate;
    [PropertyContext("Publisher")  ]
        string    Publisher;
    [PropertyContext("DisplayVersion")]
        string    Version;
    [PropertyContext("InstallSource")]     //custom info added
        string    InstallSource;                      //custom info added
Does anybody have any suggestion how to do this?  I don't want to create additional table/custom section to my configuration.mof that would pickup this info (if possible)

Answer 1

Yes, I know this is an old post, just trying to clean them up, did you figure this out? If so how?
I don’t recommend that you edit the built-in ARP class, I recommend that you create your own class with is a duplicate of the ARP class and add your extra attribute there. Very Bad thing scan happen if you incorrectly edit an existing
built-in class.
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