Patent attributes
A computing system may include a proxy server application and a database. The proxy server application may provide, to a computing device disposed within a managed network, instructions to identify one or more processes executing on the computing device. The proxy server application may also determine, for a process of the one or more processes, a file system path of a directory associated with the process and, based thereon, select one or more directories to scan for files associated with the process. The computing device may be provided with instructions to (i) scan the one or more directories and (ii) determine a plurality of attributes associated with one or more files discovered therein. The proxy server application may additionally receive results of the scan containing a representation of the plurality of attributes and store, in the database, the results of the scan.