Software Metering Solutions For Mac
Software Metering is a service provided by Addigy that can track application usage (System Application Metering) and/or web traffic (Web Applications Metering). A connection is recorded in 15 minute intervals. For example, if an applications is open for one hour, the value will increment by one on a 15 minute interval (assuming the application is still open). Totaling 4 connections.
Globally Enabling or Disabling Metering
Software metering involves the analysis of software usage statistics and helps IT Administrators reduce the expense overhead incurred from unwanted renewals and upgrades. Desktop Central IT Asset Management 's software metering capabilities give you visibility and insights on the software assets within your network and help you to make informed. EKM Metering offers a few software options that serve a variety of electricity, water, and gas submetering needs. All of our software options are free or have free versions. The meter reading software options include web applications as well as software option that runs on your computer.
You can view Software Metering by going to theSystemsection of theDashboard, and scrolling down the page. Software Metering is turned ON for your organization by default.
Software Metering is disabled by default for your organization. If you would like to enable software metering, navigate to Account > Settings. This will show your organization-wide settings.
Enable the Software metering toggle to turn this functionality on.
Note: Your Addigy account must have the Edit Company Configuration privilege to change these settings.
Enabling or Disabling Metering for a Policy
To enable or disable these features, simply click Dashboard on your top left Navigation pane and choose the Policy you'd like to manipulate.
The metering options can be found under Software Metering. Here you can simply choose which feature you'd like to turn on or off.
Note: If the Parent policy has any Children policies under it, these settings will trickle down to the children policies.
If you have an Addigy account and have additional questions, you can create a ticket by emailing support@addigy.com.
Alternatively, you can submit a support request within Addigy.
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Software Metering can be used to track the usage of applications in your enterprise, it is always nice to know if the applications are used before removing them 😉 You are able to track the usage of an application by creating a software metering rule for an application that you want to track. The Software Metering Feature is enabled by default in the Default Client Settings package and configured to report usage information back to the site server once every 7 days, this value can be altered from 1-59 minutes, 1-24 hours, 1-31 days or you can create a custom schedule.
So to be able to use Software Metering you need to be sure that the feature in the Client Settings is enabled.
Like mentioned earlier you need to create software metering rules to be able to track the usage of an application, this can be done in two ways;
- Automatically (enabled by default)
- Manually
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Automatically
After going to the Software Metering node in the Assets and Compliance workspace you are able to select the Software Metering Properties option in the ribbon. In the properties dialog you are able to specify the amount of time in days that the software metering data is retained in the site database, the default is set to 90 days. Also configurable is the ability to automatically create disabled metering rules from the recent usage inventory data. Rules are only created automatically if a configurable percentage of computers in the hierarchy must use an application, by default this percentage is 10%. To prevent that thousands of disabled rules are created you are able to configure a limit rules that can be created before this feature is disabled, the default number is 100.
Configure the Software Metering Properties
Manually
Besides creating the software metering rules automatically, you are also able to create a rule manually by selecting the Create Software Metering Rule in the Software Metering node in the Assets and Compliance workspace.
You are able to supply the information about the application yourself or you are able to browse to the executable of the application. When browsing to an executable the information about the file is extracted and filled in to the fields of the Wizard. After going through the wizard the software metering rule is created and enabled by default.
Newly created Software metering rules
Reporting Software Metering information
Configuration Manager 2012 comes with 13 reports that will help you in analyzing the gathered usage information.
Selecting the option to report “Concurrent usage trend analysis of a specific metered software program” will result in a report like shown below.
Software Metering report output (example)
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Maintaining Software Metering information
Enabling the Software Metering feature will result in loads of data that will be stored in the Configuration Manager database. You have for this reason the Site Maintenance that you can configure, tasks related to Software Metering are:
- Delete Aged Software Metering Data (default every 5 days)
- Delete Aged Software Metering Summary Data (default every 270 days)
Next to the maintenance tasks that ensure us that the old data is deleted, there are two tasks that help us summarizing usage data for the reports.
- Summarize Software Metering File Usage Data
- Summarize Software Metering Monthly Usage Data
The summarizing tasks helps us to consolidate the usage information into one database record instead of hundreds, very useful!
Hope this helps, till next time!