Yana asked a question.
Software Metering - best practices
Hi Folks,
We have the following situation where we want to clear the old data and enable Software metering for 3 months of usage data and 12 months of other data. For monitoring, we selected the following reports Yearly statistics per application, Application installation history, License tracking per computer and Applications per computer and user.
And which reports do you use? What settings do you use for Software metering? What reports do you use to monitor it? How long do you keep usage data?
Thank you in advance for yours reply!
Best regards,
Yana Voznitska
Hi Yana,
The retention policy depends on what you need to use the data for.
Usually, for licensing purposes, keeping 3 months of data would be enough to cover the 90-day rule established by Microsoft.
If you also use your metering data for security purposes for example, your security team could be involved to determine a reasonable retention period.
Keep in mind that metering data can take up quite a significant amount of space in your DB (depending on the size of your network) so check out how it affects your storage.
The SLM Console has a setting that defines the metering retention period
Sam