Re: Tracking Windows usage (for billing)

Hi Adrian:
We have been using WatchDog for monitoring usage on our 
Cyan and for the most part it serves our needs just fine. 
It is kind of a "Fileguard" for PC. You can generate 
reasonable reports which are exportable to an Excel 
spreadsheet. You have the ability to restrict software 
usage and times, etc. Best of all it is cheap $35/single 
license or $250/site license. You can find more info at 
http://www.watchdogpc.com.
On that note, I still do not understand why manufacturer's 
who make these instruments who know that these instruments 
are often going to be used in multiuser facilities do not 
build this feature into their software. I (and others for 
sure) would be more than happy to share what our needs 
are, just ask.
JL

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:40:52 +1100
  Adrian Smith <A.Smith@centenary.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've seen this question asked at least a couple of times 
>on this list but I've not seen any answers...
>
>Basically we are looking for software to track usage (ie 
>user and time) of Windows-based flow cytometers (in 
>particular BD machines). If it had a module to generate a 
>bill at the end that would be even better :)
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>I'm sure we could roll-our-own solution with user logins 
>from our ldap directory but I would prefer not to have to 
>connect the cytometer PCs to that system and I don't 
>really want to give more work to our over-burdened IT 
>guy.
>
>Regards,
>
>Adrian Smith
>Centenary Institute
>Sydney, Australia