Configuring a Data Collection Schedule

The default data collection schedule for the Software Metering Client Agent is every seven days. As a best practice, do not change this default setting in your production environment. If you configure data collection for a shorter time period, you begin to reduce the accuracy of software metering reporting. Also, setting this interval for a shorter time period reduces the SMS site server's ability to process data for a large number of clients. Although the minimum recurrence interval for the data collection schedule is 15 minutes, avoid configuring the interval for such a short period of time in your production environment.

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