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Software Usage Collect Task

The software usage collect task lets you track the usage of software licenses based on the settings given in the software definitions.

Note: Starting with r11, software usage replaced the term metering.

When a computer in the DSM domain launches an application that is enabled for software usage monitoring, the software usage agent checks for the available licenses. If a license is available, it reduces the number of available licenses by one.

If a license is not available, this task can do one of the following:

Note: Because software usage modules can only be created for a specific group or asset, navigate to a group or asset under All Computers to create the module.

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Usage

Enable Usage Monitoring