1. Open a Software Product for editing and browse to the Metering/Usage Tracking tab.
2. Add executables to be metered if none is assigned or change existing unnecessary files to those you want to be metered
3. Click OK, validate that the files are added/replaced, and then click OK to save and close software product edit screen.
4. Try to edit same product again and review the Metering tab.
The issue is reproducible when the same file (file+version) is associated with more than one software component inside the same product.
When user adds file to one component, but does not add it to other related components, server-based logic removes it from the first component too.
Following new logic was added into the current process flow:
Fix is available in the format of pointfix on top of 7.5 SP1 HF5 (attached to this article) and also included in 7.6 HF4.
HOW TO INSTALL THIS POINTFIX
HOW TO UNINSTALL POINTFIX
P.S. It may be necessary also to manually remove associations between incorrect “Software Components” that contains incorrect “file assignments”.
Following approach is recommended for such clen-up.
Following is SQL Query:
Select Swp.Name as [Product Name],Ra.ParentResourceGuid as [Product Guid],
d.[Comp Name] as [Component Name],d.ParentResourceGuid as [Component Guid], d.InstallFlag as [IsInstalled],
d.Name as [File Name], d.CNT as [Number of Files] from
(
Select o.ParentResourceGuid, o.[Comp Name],ist.InstallFlag, o.Name, o.CNT from
(
Select aas.ParentResourceGuid, comp.Name as [Comp Name], fil.Name, COUNT(fil.Name) as CNT from ResourceAssociation aas
LEFT Join vFile fil
ON aas.ChildResourceGuid = fil.Guid
Join vSoftwareComponent comp
on aas.ParentResourceGuid = comp.Guid
where aas.ResourceAssociationTypeGuid = 'EABE86D3-AAFD-487A-AF63-5C95D7511AF6'
and fil.Name = 'acrobat.exe' --replace with name of affected file
--and comp.Name like '%Acrobat%Pro%'
Group by aas.ParentResourceGuid,comp.Name, fil.Name
) o
LEFT OUTER Join Inv_InstalledSoftware ist
on o.ParentResourceGuid = ist._SoftwareComponentGuid
Group By o.ParentResourceGuid, o.[Comp Name],ist.InstallFlag, o.Name, o.CNT
) d
LEFT OUTER join ResourceAssociation Ra
on Ra.ChildResourceGuid=d.ParentResourceGuid
LEFT OUTER Join vSoftwareProduct Swp
on Swp.Guid = Ra.ParentResourceGuid
where (Ra.ResourceAssociationTypeGuid = '9D67B0C6-BEFF-4FCD-86C1-4A40028FE483' OR Ra.ResourceAssociationTypeGuid is null) AND
(Swp.Name = '<Product Name>' OR Swp.Name is Null)
NB! Please do not delete “Software Components” directly from DB, use NS Console for that operations.
P.P.S. After all such components will be deleted, problem should gone. Repeat same procedure for other products showing same behavior. You will need to modify the SQL query for other products instead of “acrobat.exe” file and “Adobe Acrobat Professional” and “Adobe Acrobat Standard” products.
Some additional research is recommended to ensure that issue won't reoccur.
a. Run “Full Inventory” for several clients where the “Product” installed, and check if problem appears again or not.
b. Run “NS.Nightly schedule to associate Software component to software product” task and check if problem appears again or not.