Application Usage Monitoring

[TomHD]

Good Morning All,

 

My IT Director has requested that we come up with a solution to monitor the applications used in ICT lessons. Has anyone done this before? Or have a solution to offer?

 

FYI we are running CC4 if it has any bearing.

 

Looking forward to hearing what you guys think.

 

Best, TomHD

[plexer]

Wow he must be bored today.

 

Ben

[Foresthippy]

RM Auditor?

[TomHD]

I have just looked into RM Auditor! Looks like it will do what he wants

[Edu-IT]

RM Auditor is an absolute pain and doesn't work on later RM products, if I recall. Impero will do what you want.

[AlexB]

We have a very simple vb script that takes input of the program to run, the reference name and any arguments which inserts an entry into a database with the username, time, computer and reference name and then launches the app.

 

It requires updating all shortcuts to call the vb script, but works for us.

[Norphy]

SCCM will do this if you're feeling adventurous. The feature is called Software Metering.

 

Although I suppose that if you're using CC4, you ain't gonna be using SCCM

[bossman]

@Norphy:

 

CC4 networks can and do use SCCM to roll out endpoint protection did you know?

 

Obviously not!

 

Well aren't you the most informed person in the room today hehe!

[Norphy]

I'm aware that you can use SCCM on CC networks, I'm just not sure why you would being as most of the functionality of both products would be duplicated.

 

I was running SCCM 2007 on a CC3 network for about a year but this was with the intention of migrating away from CC.

[bossman]

@Norphy:

 

My bad I thought it was another of those RM v Vanilla threads!

 

Did you migrate from CC?

[Norphy]

Yes. It wasn't economical to stay with CC and we were finding it far too restrictive.