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FIGURE 6-11
Software Metering Properties
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AUTOMATIC RULE CREATION
You can learn more about automatic software-metering rule creation at
http://technet
EXAM TIP
Remember how to configure automatic rule creation.
Software-metering data is summarized on a specified schedule and then replicates to the
central administration site, which contains usage data from all client computers within the
hierarchy. After the site server summarizes client data, you can view the information by using
queries and reports. This data, combined with data from software inventory and Asset
Intelligence, can assist your organization in determining its software usage.
Configuration Manager includes a number of site-maintenance tasks to help you manage
the usage data that software metering collects. These tasks are responsible for summarizing
software-metering data and deleting aged software-metering data. These summarization
tasks summarize data to reduce the amount of data that the Configuration Manager site
database stores.
Data summarization runs daily and only runs against usage data that is older than
12 hours. Data summarization is required for all Configuration Manager software-metering
reports to display meaningful data.
