Stopping KSWMeterSvc service
any options to stop KSWMeterSvc services on all machine from K1000 web gui?
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Posted by:
Jbr32
8 years ago
Not that I am aware of. On our client machines we ended up blocking it via a group policy. What issues are you running into? We were seeing locked files.
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KSWMeterSvc is consuming almost 3 GB of RAM on many computers..machines are completely dead - rahimpal 8 years ago
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This thing hogs CPU. We enabled metering once years ago for a mi ute but promptly disabled it. Dont need it. Ever since we have some or maybe all laptops and VMs showing hogging CPU by this service. Can you share the gpo you made to disable the service? - bens401 5 years ago
Posted by:
chucksteel
8 years ago
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If the machines aren't set to meter software usage via label then the service shouldn't be running, at least that is my understanding. That change won't take effect until the next time they check into KACE.
Another way to find machines that are running the service would be to create a custom inventory rule with ShellCommandTextReturn(sc.exe query "Dell KACE Software Meter")
That will return the status of the service and you can create a smart label where that CIR contains RUNNING. Then you can target that label with a script that runs the command the disable to service.
