Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Software metering enables you to track how often a particular application is used. This is
extremely useful if you want to determine which applications are, and are not, being used in
your organization.
This section covers the following topics:
Software metering
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Software-metering rules
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Manage software-metering tasks
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You use software metering to monitor application usage on Configuration Manager client
computers. You can summarize software-metering data to produce useful reports that can
help you plan for your organization's software purchases.
Software metering can be useful when you need to know:
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How many instances of a particular software program users are using.
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How many licenses of a particular software program you need to purchase when you
renew your license agreement with the software vendor.
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Whether any users are still running a particular software program. If users are no lon-
ger using the program, you could consider retiring it.
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What times of the day users most frequently use a software program.
Software metering can collect detailed information, such as the information listed in
Table 6-3.
TABLE 6-3
Information collected by the software-metering process
Collected information
Included values
Program usage information
Start time
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End time
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Meter data ID
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Resource ID
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User name
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Users of Terminal/Remote Desktop Services sessions
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Whether Terminal/Remote Desktop Services is still running
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