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QNX Software Center
The QNX Software Center (QSC) enables you to create and manage installations of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) and related products.
myQNX License Manager and QNX Software Center User's Guide
This guide explains how to use the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center. It is intended for corporate buyers, development managers, and IT administrators who need to manage QNX product licenses, and for developers who need to install and maintain QNX software on their development hosts.
Manifest Reports & File Lookup
Using the QNX Software Center, you can create manifest reports for any QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) installation, or for any QNX target image that resides on your target hardware or development host.
Generate a manifest

QNX Software Center
The QNX Software Center (QSC) enables you to create and manage installations of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) and related products.
- myQNX License Manager and QNX Software Center User's Guide
  This guide explains how to use the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center. It is intended for corporate buyers, development managers, and IT administrators who need to manage QNX product licenses, and for developers who need to install and maintain QNX software on their development hosts.
  - Introduction
    Together, the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center make it easy to license, download, install, and maintain QNX software products. It doesn’t matter whether your company is a small development shop with a handful of developers or a large OEM with globally distributed software teams. Either way, these tools will maximize the efficiency of your license administrators and enable all of your developers to stay up to date with the latest QNX software tools and components.
  - Create Your myQNX Account
    To use the myQNX License Manager or the QNX Software Center, you must first create a myQNX account. Setup is easy and takes only a few minutes.
  - Important Terms and Definitions
    This section covers important definitions that can help you better understand how to use QNX licenses.
  - Using the myQNX License Manager
    The myQNX License Manager lets you take centralized control of the QNX licensing for your organization. It reduces the hard work of managing licenses for large software teams to a few simple tasks that you can perform from a single, easy-to-use control panel:
  - Using the QNX Software Center
    The QNX Software Center provides a secure, efficient way to discover, install, and manage software products distributed by QNX. It replaces traditional command-line procedures with a graphical user interface that takes the guesswork out of managing product dependencies. It also lets you create patch sets: specific configurations of QNX products, patches, and updates that enable development teams to reproduce issues and standardize on the same software base.
  - QNX Software Center Advanced Topics
    This chapter guides you through tasks that you may have to perform only on occasion. It also discusses how to address potential connectivity or license activation issues.
  - Using the QNX Software Center Command Line
    The qnxsoftwarecenter_clt script lets you run the QNX Software Center from the command line. The script uses the same infrastructure as the QNX Software Center’s GUI.
  - Manifest Reports & File Lookup
    Using the QNX Software Center, you can create manifest reports for any QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) installation, or for any QNX target image that resides on your target hardware or development host.
  - Glossary
    To make best use of the QNX Software Center, we recommend that you become familiar with the following terms, which are used throughout the center's user interface and documentation.
- Creating and Deploying Installations of QNX SDP in Large Organizations
  This guide is intended for system administrators and developers who need to perform unattended installation of the QNX Software Center and the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP), or who need to create deployed installations of QNX SDP.
- QNX Software Center Technotes
  These technotes explain how to work around many issues with using the QNX Software Center.
- Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
  This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

Generate a manifest

When creating a report for an installation or directory on your host, or for a target image mounted on the host, you don't have to explicitly generate and import a manifest. The QNX Software Center can generate the manifest for you, automatically. See Using the GUI for details.

If, however, you want to create a report for an image on a physical target, you must first collect file metadata from the target and save it in a manifest. You can then import the manifest into the QNX Software Center, where you can quickly filter, sort, and arrange the metadata, and then export a report.

To generate a manifest for a target, you can use the Qscan tool, which is available for download from the QNX Software Center. See Using Qscan to generate a target manifest for details.

You can also generate a manifest by creating your own scripts or by assembling the manifest manually. See Target manifest format if you wish to take this approach.

Note:

When generating a manifest or exporting a report, make sure that, at a minimum, it contains the following fields: NAME, BUILDID, DIGESTSHA512. Otherwise, you won't be able to import the file and generate a report from it.

Page updated: February 04, 2025