Re: SW Metering not working!!!

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From: James (lee.james_at_spartan.ab.ca)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: 24 Oct 2004 11:07:51 -0700

Hi Kim,

Thank you for responding.

I'm aware of the summarization schedule. That wasn't the issue,
sufficient time had passed for that process to occur.

I did manage to solve the problem however. I changed the language for
my two rules from 'US English' to 'Any' and it started to work.

J.

Kim Oppalfens <kim@computacenter.nospam> wrote in message news:<MPG.1be1e50ff9096aba9898da@msnews.microsoft.com>...
> Dear most frustrated,
>
> Your problem will be solved magically by a tool called patience.
> The sms software metering reports run on the summarized data, by default
> the server only summarizes data once a week. So within a week your
> reports should start working.
>
> Just verify in the sms client logs, that they launched an application
> that was metered. Then tell your manager you are going to try and
> resolve the issue in your test lab at home. Come back to work next week
> and tell him you found a solution.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6bp53 this might be of interest as well, runmetersumm
> was a tool that was provided during sms beta to trigger the software
> metering summarization. So if you can grab an sms2003 beta from
> somewhere you could use that. It still works, just vanished from planet
> earth apparently.
>
> Kim Oppalfens
> In article <17084052.0410201041.4b437632@posting.google.com>,
> lee.james@spartan.ab.ca says...
> > Running single site SMS 2003 SP1 in a test lab. All functions of SMS
> > 2003 are working fine except for SW metering.
> >
> > I've enabled the Metering client, and created two rules one for
> > Outlook and one for Excel (outlook.exe and excel.exe).
> >
> > I've verified that the clients have the software metering components
> > installed.
> >
> > I've left all the scheduling and data summarization settings at the
> > defaults.
> >
> > When I run ANY of the Metering reports I get no results. Reporting is
> > working fine as I can run other non-metering related reports just
> > fine.
> >
> > All clients are Advanced and running Advanced security.
> >
> > Again, all other aspects (remote control, sw distribution, queries,
> > inventory etc.) of SMS are working fine.
> >
> > Most frustrated,
> >
> > J.
> >

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