Use this window to view the list of software products in
your IT infrastructure and the number of their instances.
The
Use Data Collection column
provides information pertaining to the collection of use information.
You can change the default settings by selecting a given product,
and choosing
Change Data Collection Level from
the
Select Action list .
- None - Use data collection function is
deactivated. This option is enabled by default.
- Last use - Information about the date and
time when the product was last used is being collected. This information
is consumed by Tivoli Asset Management for IT.
- Summary and trend - Last use information
plus additionally summary and trend data is being collected. This
data includes information about the average use, the maximum number
of concurrent uses, and the time at which the maximum concurrent use
of a given product occurred. The data is consolidated at the product
level - there are no details about single instances.
- Full information - Detailed use information
is being collected. If you turn this option on, you will collect all
the details about when a given use session started and ended, the
user name, and the name of the instance that was run. You should use
this option with caution because gathering full information takes
up much space on your disk.
- Ineligible - Signature based on use is
not defined in the software catalog for a given product, therefore,
it is not possible to monitor software use for this product.
The Multiple Instance Identification function
can be either enabled or disabled. By default, it is activated, but
you can change this setting by selecting a given product, and choosing Change
Data Collection Level from the Select Action list. This
feature gives you the possibility of identifying different instances
of the same product on the same system, for example, if on a given
system one copy of Product 1 is installed in one directory
and the second Product 1 copy is installed in a different directory,
then with multiple instance identification activated, the agent will report
two instances of Product 1 together with their installation paths.
If this function is turned off, you will only know that Product
1 is installed.
Note: - Software discovered by the agents is not immediately shown in
the Products List window because the information
received needs to be consolidated by the server. This activity runs
periodically and it can be set in the productInventoryBuilderPeriod parameter
of the setserverconf command. By default, it runs
every 5 hours.
- If multiple instance identification is turned on, an instance
which is located in a subdirectory in which there is another instance
is not discovered.
- Select Action
- Use the drop-down list to select the action that you want to carry
out.
To view the description of actions that
you can perform with the table, see Table actions list.
- Download as PDF
- Downloads the whole table as a single document in the PDF format
for saving. The format retains the filtering and sorting performed
on the table. Note that the PDF format has a limited capacity so it
may not be possible to create if for too large tables.
- Download as CSV
- Downloads the whole table as a single document in the CSV format
for saving and editing. The format retains the filtering and sorting
performed on the table. It has no limitations as far as the number
of rows is concerned. You should use a spreadsheet application to
open it.