Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual page 86

86 Metering and denying applications
About metering and denying applications
Monitor the use of applications on managed computers.
Control the availability of applications on managed computers.
Note: Application metering is a Windows-only feature.
This feature requires the Altiris Agent and an Application Metering plug-in be
installed on target computers.
See "Preparing managed computers for inventory and metering"
The following table gives an overview of how you can meter applications:
Application metering functions
Table 8-1
Function Description
Monitoring You can monitor and record the usage of applications.
applications
You can monitor the following information:
The application's start and stop events that are sent to the CMDB
The summary data of monitored applications
These events are recorded in the Configuration Management Database
(CMDB) and are viewable through reports.
Application metering reports let you view the following information:
Which metered applications were used
When metered applications were used
Which computers metered applications were run on
Concurrent application usage
Application resource usage statistics
See
See
See
"Application metering start, stop, and denial events"
"About application summary data"
"Viewing application metering data"
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