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  • software licenses. One needs to make sure that only the allowed number of licenses are in use, and at the same time, that there are enough licenses for everyone using it. This can include monitoring of concurrent usage of software for real-time enforcement of license limits.


  • monitor all (or selected) applications running on the computers within the organization in order to detect unregistered or unlicensed software and prevent its execution, or limit its execution to within certain hours. The Systems Administrator can configure the software metering agent on each computer in the organization, for example, to prohibit the execution of games before 5 p.m.


  • allocate software usage to computers according to the policies you specify and to maintain a record of usage and attempted usage. You can check out and check in licenses for mobile users, and you can also keep a record of all licenses in use.


Software metering provides another benefit by enabling you to enforce company standards.


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