Software Usage Monitoring Overview

Software usage monitoring is a new product offered with the Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 product. Software usage monitoring is a compilation of software programs that enable you to monitor software usage across your network servers and clients.

Tracking software usage enables you to tell which programs are used the most and the least, thus simplifying the system administration of your computer network. For example, some software may be heavily used and need more licenses while other software might not be used at all and could be removed from the computer network.

Using software usage monitoring commands, you can do the following:

• Generate software usage report entries for applications run on servers or clients

• Transfer software usage report entries from the clients to the software usage server

• Print and format software usage report entries

The product specified in the attribute list for the swu_rpt command and the swu_rpt() function must provide enough information to distinguish one product's usage record from another's usage record.