Use this window to change the level of data collection
details.
If you select products in the Products List window
with the same values, the settings that apply to these products in
the Change Data Collection Level window will be marked
with a tick.
If you select products with mixed values (for example, one product
with use data collection function enabled, and one with the same function
disabled), the settings that apply to these products in this window will be marked
by a square. If you leave the values as they are, as mixed, no change will be made
to these products. If you clear these values, they will be disabled,
and if you select them again, every product will have a given function
enabled.
- Collect product use information
- Use data is being collected. This option is disabled by default.
- Date and time when the product was last used
- Basic use information is gathered for Tivoli Asset Management
for IT.
- Summary and trend of product use plus the above
- Date and time of the product last use and additionally summary
and trend information used for generating reports is being gathered. 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 use information for custom reporting
- 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.
- Identify multiple instances of the product (required for some
types of licenses)
- Multiple instances are being identified. 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.
This function is enabled by default.
Note: If multiple instance identification
is turned on, an instance which is located in a subdirectory in which
there is another instance is not discovered.
The changes in data collection level will not take place immediately. This
happens because the server has to process the information in such
a way that it can be consumed by the agent. As soon as the agent connects
to the server, the server will notify the agent that the use data
collection level has been changed. From this moment on, the agent will be
collecting software use information.