# Work with metering

> Meter application usage so you can find and harvest inactive licenses.

Source: https://docs.capaone.com/capainstaller/the-capainstaller-console/asset-management/how-to-use-asset-management/work-with-metering/  
Product: CapaInstaller — a separate CapaSystems product; do not apply this page to any other.

# Introduction

Metering application usage with CapaInstaller gives you the opportunity to harvest inactive licenses. The metering module collects information about the last application start time, start count, last usage minutes, etc.   
     
 Metering for an application can be made on a number of files. To define multiple metering points create a metering group and add multiple metering executable to the group.   
     
 E.g. for Microsoft Office 2007 it is possible to add the following applications:   
     
 Microsoft Office 2007 Excel (metering module excel.exe)   
 Microsoft Office 2007 Winword (metering module winword.exe)   
 Microsoft Office 2007 Powerpoint (metering module powerpnt.exe)   
 Etc.   
     
 If metering history is enabled historic information is collected and stored in the database   
     
 Note:  
 We recommend you have read the metering description before setting up any of this.

### **Enable metering on a software package**

|          |                                                                                                                                    |
|:---------|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Step** | **Action**                                                                                                                         |
| 1        | Click on. ![](/attachments/capainstaller/b3194221-2722-4aca-ae18-26692290f922.webp)                                                    |
| 2        | Go to the Application groups folder, find the application group you want to run metering on.                                       |
| 3        | Right-click on the application group and click *Metering executable*.                                                              |
| 4        | Type in the metering executable and version, and click Add.  ![](/attachments/capainstaller/7bbf5375-b1bf-4189-99e9-8dafe2f723a5.png) |
| 5        | Enter changelog description                                                                                                        |
| 6        | Click OK to save the changes                                                                                                       |

### **Enable metering history**

|          |                                                                                                                                                                                               |
|:---------|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Step** | **Action**                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| 1        | Click on. ![](/attachments/capainstaller/b3194221-2722-4aca-ae18-26692290f922.webp)                                                                                                               |
| 2        | Go to Application group folders, find the application group you want to run metering history on.                                                                                              |
| 3        | Right-click on the Application group and click *Enable Metering history*. If the application group does not have metering executable applied, the Metering executable form will be displayed. |

## Related tasks

|                                         |                                                                                                                                                             |
|:----------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **If you want to...**                   | **You can...**                                                                                                                                              |
| Stop metering                           | Right-click on the application group and click *Stop Metering*.                                                                                             |
| Create a new application group          | [Create an application group](/capainstaller/the-capainstaller-console/asset-management/how-to-use-asset-management/create-an-application-group/) to see how.                                                                             |
| Change metering executable              | Right-click on the application group, click Metering Executable and add or remove the executable file for the software.                                     |
| Save metering history                   | Right-click on the Application group, click *Properties* and check the *Save metering history* checkbox.                                                    |
| Enable Citrix metering                  | Right-click on the Application group click *Properties* and check the *Enable Citrix metering* check box.                                                   |
| See properties for an Application group | Right-click on the Application group, click *Properties* for description [Metering properties](/capainstaller/the-capainstaller-console/asset-management/what-is-asset-management/metering-properties/). |