Managing Software Using a Predefined Nightly Task

Software management is only available on Windows and Mac computers.
The predefined nightly task
NS.Nightly schedule to associate Software component to software product
ensures that each software component is associated to an appropriate software product or is assigned the
Newly Discovered Software
status. To ensure the responsiveness of the Console, some database updates are made when the configuration is changed, and then the task completes the rest of the updates.
When you modify or delete a software product, Inventory Solution disassociates the software components that no longer match the product.
The task
NS.Nightly schedule to associate Software component to software product
runs automatically on the Notification Server computer every night at 12:30 A.M.
You may want to run the task manually if you have created one or more software products or modified the software filtering rules, but the software components are still not associated with the newly created or modified products.
This task is a step in the process for tracking the usage of the managed software products.
Before you perform this step, ensure that you have gathered software inventory on the client computers.
  1. To manually run the task
    NS.Nightly schedule to associate Software component to software product
  2. On the Notification Server computer, in the taskbar, click
    Start > Administrative Tools > Task Scheduler
    .
  3. On the
    Task Scheduler
    page, in the left pane, click
    Task Scheduler Library
    .
  4. In the central pane, right-click the task
    NS.Nightly schedule to associate Software component to software product
    , and then click
    Run
    .
The next step is to track the usage of the managed software products.