A software collection’s member products can be required or non-required. Required member products must be found on a device in order for the installation to qualify as a software collection installation. Non-required member products, if installed on the machine, are considered part of the software collection but are not required to be installed.
Consider the following example. SoftwareCollection includes three member products:
ProdA (required)
ProdB (required)
ProdC (non-required).
The member products are installed as follows:
Device1: ProdA, ProdC
Device2: ProdA, ProdB
Device3: ProdA, ProdB, ProdC
Device4: ProdA
The Discovered Products list would show the following:
SoftwareCollection: 2 installations (Device2, Device3)
ProdA: 2 installations (Device1, Device4)
ProdB: 0 installations
ProdC: 1 installation (Device1)