Software Metering
I am using software metering to meter the usage of explorer.exe on my domain to monitor system usage. I am looking to run a report to tell which users at what time were logged into a particular machine. I think this information is probably lies somewhere within the SQL database, I just do not know the appropriate query statement. Thanks,
January 6th, 2010 11:27pm

I don´t think you can get the time explorer.exe was started and how long it was running, only how many times an executable was run.RegardsNiklas Regards Niklas
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January 7th, 2010 1:07am

Specific information like that is not stored. The software metering tables store things like average usage per day in a given month, but not the discrete times. The summarisation process takes that raw data, and converts it into those average. But it removes the raw data after it has been summarised. Regards, Tom Watson, E-Mail: Tom_... @... Blog: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/tom_watson
January 7th, 2010 9:15pm

I was able to get the info I needed from the execmgr log files on the client PC of who was logged in at what time that was needed. I have one other questions- I want to be able to track software usage by collection ID. Is this possible?
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January 7th, 2010 10:36pm

I might consider SCCM for this, yet not by metering explorer.exe. That is a workaround that was used back in the sms 2003 days. Sccm 2007 has system console usage reporting through the asset intelligence classes. Use system console usage for Sccm 2007 from asset intelligence. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc161933.aspx "Everyone is an expert at something" Kim Oppalfens Configmgr expert for lack of any other expertise. http://www.scug.be/blogs/sccm
January 8th, 2010 4:52pm

FYI - System console usage is only as good as the security is long. Once your security log rolls on the client and the next inventory cycle runs, I believe you will only get as much console usage specified as the security log has for that particular user.nick
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January 13th, 2010 12:20am

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