Object

An object is a representation of an identifiable element in your IT infrastructure whose properties, activities and generated events are monitored by Nexthink. An object can refer either to a hardware or to a software element.

There are ten types of objects in Nexthink. The availability of each type of object and the information that they carry depend on the platform of the end-user devices that originated them. Object types that are available for multiple platforms can be divided into specific to a platform and shared by platforms. Objects which are specific to a platform belong to one platform only. For instance, devices are platform specific because one device may be either a Windows device, a Mac OS device, or a Mobile device. On the other hand, users are platform shared, because the same user may have been seen in Windows, Mac OS, or Mobile.

Available for platforms	Object type	Platform specificity
Windows | macOS | Mobile	User	Shared
Windows | macOS | Mobile	Device	Specific
Windows | macOS	Package	Specific
Windows | macOS	Application	Specific
Windows | macOS	Executable	Specific
Windows | macOS	Binary	Specific
Windows | macOS	Port	Shared
Windows | macOS	Destination	Shared
Windows	Domain	Shared
Windows	Printer (deprecated)	Shared

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RELATED CONCEPTS

• Activity

• Event