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Save time and effort comparing leading it management software tools for small businesses. Configuring the software metering client agent microsoft. Software recognition database by certeros licensing experts. It wont help service desk agents understand what edition of word the user. Configuring client agents part 5 software metering. Software metering allows you to monitor software usage in your enterprise. Hi how can sccm software metering know the difference between vision standard and visio pro.
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For instance you can see how many copies of an application has been deployed to computers and among these you can see how many actually use the application. Application usage metering with flexnet agent on w. Software metering configmgr 2012 marius sandbu it blog. This update only affects those using the august 10, 2004 build, previous versions were not affected by this issue. The table above compares flexnet manager suite and certero. Software metering is a feature in configmgr 2012 which allows for inventory software usage. Software metering reports configuration manager 2012. The systems administrator can configure the software metering agent on each computer in the organization, for example, to prohibit the execution of games before 5 p. Relying on deploying agents to known devices will inevitably create. And how many licenses of a particular software you need. I recently worked with a customer who had some questions regarding the workflow of software metering in system center 2012 configuration manager configmgr 2012 so i thought i would go ahead and share that with all of you here as well. Statistics of software applications used in computers in your network.
Hi there, i really, really dislike the software metering reports in configmgr. On the general tab, select the enable software metering on clients check box. You can configure software metering in configuration manager to automatically generate disabled software metering rules from recent usage inventory data held in the site database. Client will report metering results on a scheduled basis the schedule can be configured by site settings client agent software metering agent schedule tab or when you initial the software metering usage report cycle from the control panel configuration manager client applet. Please try again or sign in with a different account. Software recognition database transforms complex data into simple. And its better at capturing and analyzing inventory data on all hardware and software, so you can do more with the insights certero for enterprise. Enabling the software metering feature will result in loads of data that will be stored in the configuration manager database. Altiris application metering agent should i remove it. Unique, innovation in software metering see how ceteros approach to software monitoring exposes serious flaws in other methods, allowing decisions to be based on sound information rather than unsound assumption. After enabling the agent, rightclick the software metering node in the configmgr console and then select properties. To enable or disable the software metering client agent. Monitor app usage with software metering configuration.