Unsupported platforms Software metering is not supported on Alpha servers or servers running NetWare.
Before you can use the Software Metering tool to track software use, you must configure the metering infrastructure in SMS. To do so, you must perform the following three tasks:
Configure software metering
components.
Configure software metering components to set metering policies and
to schedule metering tasks (such as license balancing and data
summarization).
Designate a software metering
server.
Software metering servers provide the services required to support
software metering within a site.
Configure the Software Metering
Client Agent.
Enable the Software Metering Client Agent and configure client
retries, timings, and messages.
After you configure the SMS software metering infrastructure, you can start the Software Metering tool to configure licensed software and specific software metering tasks.
Note The software metering component will not run on clients that belong to multiple unless the first site in the client's list of sites (in the Systems Management Control Panel on 32-bit clients, or in the [Sites] section of Smscfg.ini on 16-bit clients) has the Software Metering Client Agent enabled.