The Software Usage Setup application is used to create, delete, duplicate, edit, or view software usage records. A software usage record specifies how software usage frequency is displayed in the Usage field, on the Software tab, in the Computers application.
When discovery tools, such as IBM® Tivoli® Configuration Manager, scan computers, network devices, and network printers deployed in your enterprise for information about installed software applications, they collect data about how often the applications are used (usage counts). For example, some discovery tools collect data maintained by the Microsoft Windows Add/Remove Programs feature, which determines usage counts based on the number of times you used a software application during the last 30-day period. After the discovery tool collects the data, an integration tool, such as Integration Composer, aggregates the collected data and imports it into the database.
The Software Usage Setup application lets you define how software usage frequency information collected by a specific discovery tool is displayed. For each discovery tool, you can specify a range of usage counts and assign to that range a user-friendly, textual description that is displayed on the Software tab in the Computers application. For example, you can use the word DAILY to describe software used between 15 and 30 times or MONTHLY to describe software used between 1 and 2 times. You specify a low end of the range (Range From) and a high end of the range (Range To). The values that you specify in the range fields depend on the values that your discovery tool uses for frequency counts. See the documentation for your discovery tool to determine what values to use for the Range From and Range To values.