Issue Summary

The Assets Discovery is duplicating/tripling Application objects, due to different patterns returning the same installed application.

This is the same as the fixed bug, maybe this regression: JSDSERVER-12612

For example, the Amazon SSM Agent objects are created three times with different object hashes due to the different attributes returned for each pattern: 

Three different patterns are returning these objects:

1. Windows_SoftwareFeatures
2. Windows_Application_Registry
3. Windows_Application_Product

Steps to Reproduce

1. Enable the import of the Application object type under the Object schema import page
2. Install Assets Discovery
3. Configure the Scan for a Windows host making sure that the default Windows patterns are enabled, as they include:
   1. Windows_SoftwareFeatures
   2. Windows_Application_Registry
   3. Windows_Application_Product
4. Enable the import of the Application object type under the Object schema import page
5. Import the data into Jira;

Expected Results

Only one application object will be created per installed application on each host.

Actual Results

Each pattern (Windows_SoftwareFeatures, Windows_Application_Registry, and Windows_Application_Product) will create a different object with different attributes and object hashes per host.

Workaround

There are some workarounds we can use:

 We recommend testing this on a test instance first.

*  If you don't want to modify the Discovery settings, modify the Application Object Type identifiers in the Object Schema import page to use, for example, "Name" and "Host Connected".

• Or, on Assets Discovery, modify the ObjectHashSettings.xml configuration of the Application object type to ignore the different attributes returned by the patterns.
• Disabling some of these patterns can also remove the triplicate objects, but not all applications are imported, as each one brings different applications.