About How Application Metering Summary Is Sent - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

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About how application metering summary is sent

About how application metering summary is sent
Application Summary Data (continued)
Table 8-8
Field
Average CPU
The metering summary data is sent to the CMDB in batches. You can also specify
to send event data in batches when you create an application monitor policy.
A monthly summary is sent for policies for which the applications are marked as
'Allowed and the Send monthly Summary option is checked from the Metering
configuration options.
See "About application summary data"
See "Managing application metering data"
To prevent an overload to the system when this data is sent, the data is not all
sent at the same time. The data is randomly sent over an interval of time. The
length of the interval is determined by a value in the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Altiris\Application Metering registry key
that is installed on each client computer. The name of the value is Fuzzy Factor
and its default value is 10.
This value specifies the time interval when the data can be sent as a percentage
of the total batch creation time. For example, the data is sent to the CMDB every
7 days (168 hours) and the Fuzzy Factor value is 10. Then the length of the interval
is 10% of 7 days or about 17 hours. Half of this interval precedes the specified
send time and half of it follows. Thus the time interval in which the data is sent
would start after about 159 hours and end after 177 hours.
To change the length of this time interval, you must change the value of this
registry key on each client computer. Any registry changes should be done with
caution.
Description
Average CPU usage by the
application during the
monitoring period, where
100 equals 100 percent
usage. When the application
is monitored, this value is
updated every 30 seconds.
This information is not
available from managed
computers that are running
Windows 9x/Me.
on page 101.
on page 105.
Example
0.7652