Application Metering Start, Stop, And Denial Events - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

Application metering start, stop, and denial events

Guidelines for specifying application definition details (continued)
Table 8-5
Item
Command line
When a user of a managed computer starts or stops a monitored application, an
event is generated. When a user tries to use an application whose monitoring
policy denies its use, a denial event is generated. After events are sent to the
CMDB, you can generate reports to view this data.
See "About metering and denying applications"
See "Viewing application metering data"
The Application Metering plug-in sends the events to the CMDB in a batch at a
specified interval.
The event data is very small, such as a few thousand bytes. If the Altiris Agent
cannot connect to the CMDB, the managed computer saves the information locally
and sends it later. Every start event has a stop event or becomes a denial event.
If a managed computer terminates abnormally, then the next time it starts, the
Application Metering plug-in does the following functions:
Determines which applications were running when the computer was
terminated
Generates the appropriate stop events.
Application metering records a variety of application events.
Application metering start events data
Table 8-6
Field
FileResourceGUID
Application metering start, stop, and denial events
Description
The Command line field contains the command line that
the application must use to be monitored. Include an * before
and after the command-line text to ensure that the entire
command line is included.
on page 85.
on page 105.
Description
Resource guid that is
generated by using various
attributes of a file, like its
internal name,
manufacturer, version etc.
Metering and denying applications
Example
{018B191B-47AE-4180-9FCD-
7F3CEA4F1E12}
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