Hi, I'm looking to know if there's any rules limitation in SCCM Software metering. Our management wants to know ALL (!!) applications that is run. I keep responding that it's impossible to create every software in SMS due to lack of time. However, we are migrating to SCCM in a month. I saw the Auto creation feature but it's limited to 1000. What happens if I manually create a 1001st rules ? Will I be blocked by SCCM ? Do you see any performance issue doing that ? I'm a bit nervous but it's really hard to find precise info on the load of software metering. My management is always saying "if it's a server bottleneck, just say what to buy and we'll buy it"... but i'm not able to provide those numbers. Our hardware will be : (same for every site) 1 central site 3 parent 2xquad core cpu 16 ram 4000 clients Thanks for all your answers. Ben

This requirement does not make sense at all. Provide them a list with all *.exe files found on a typical PC and ask them if they are really interested in software metering data for each exe/application. What does management want to do with that kind of data?

HiYour mangement wants all application or all *exe,because we can not have above 1000 applications.RegardsKarthick V

lol... I find it odd also... I makes no sense. Trust me, they don't want my opinion on this. ;) I'm sure that we'll end up monitoring 100,200 applications maximum at the end when they will see all the ____ ending up in the report. Like do we really mind if people are using notepad !! :)

They want all applications. They want to see the big pictures and then choose what to monitor starting from the first report we'll give. So SCCM IS limited to 1000 rules ?? Even manually ?

So SCCM IS limited to 1000 rules ?? Even manually ? I haven't heard about that limit. I *guess* that you can create more than 1000 rules (although it still makes no sense ;-) ). Just provide them a "sample" report with 1000 apps and ask if you're on the right track ;-)

Torsten is correct with this. You should maybe suggest to management that you have posted this on the official forum, and got a reply from an MVP on ConfigMgr saying that type of request is nonsense. If they are still adamant, have them pay for a Microsoft engineer to come in to tell them its not a good idea. Sometimes what people ask for is not what they really need. We did that for something else, and only when they heard it from someone from Microsoft, they got the idea. If you started to monitor about 1000 applications, that would be quite an amount of data to store in the DB. Multiply that by the real number of .exes you have across your network, and you'll probably be close to the 100000's. I have about 200 rules with about 40000 clients. The DB size on my central is about 4 Gb for software metering data. I'm sure if we multiplied that by 1000, which is about the number of different exes we have, that would obviously become impossible to deal with. Also tell them that by monitoring that amount would be a significant increase in disk space, network bandwidth, time to process etc. It could easily make a stable system completely unusable. Regards, Tom Watson, E-Mail: Tom_... @... Blog: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/tom_watson

Thanks to all for your replies. I tried many time to say that it made no sense. They are not understanding and I know that we'll end up monitoring a correct amount of rules. They push me to the limit, trust me ... They even wants to evaluates other software because of the limitation... lol Anyway, thanks all !! :) Ben