IBM Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed V7.5.0.10

Change Data Collection Level

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.