Use the following two methods for gathering software inventory:

• Basic software application file inventory

• Inventory of Windows Add or Remove Programs list

When software inventory data is gathered and entered into the CMDB, you have the following options for making your software a managed software product:

• In the Software Catalog window, you can manually add the newly discovered software that you intend to manage to the Managed software products list.

• Inventory Solution provides the list of predefined software products. If the software that you want to manage is in the list, the task NS.Nightly schedule to associate Software component to software product associates the newly discovered software with the relevant predefined software product and moves the product to the Software Catalog, to the Managed software products list. The task runs automatically on the Notification Server computer every night at 12:30 A.M. To immediately get the results, you can run the task manually from Task Scheduler Library.

  See Manually running the task NS.Nightly schedule to associate Software component to software product.

To enable application metering, you can use different options based on your needs:

• You can use several predefined application metering policies if you want to meter common applications like Microsoft Office products at the file level.

  If you want to configure predefined policies to meet your needs, Symantec recommends that you clone an original predefined policy and then configure the copy

  See Using predefined application metering policies.

• You can create and configure new application metering polices if you want to meter applications at the file level.

  See Creating and configuring application metering policies.

• You can enable the software-based usage tracking option if you want to meter the managed software at the product level.

  See Metering and tracking usage of the managed software products in the enhanced Symantec Management Console Software view.