Cloud Application Metering architecture
The architecture for Cloud Application Metering, and how it interacts with other Snow services, is illustrated below.

The table describes processes and tasks executed by the different parts of the architecture.
Component | Description |
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Data Intelligence Service (DIS) | Operated by Snow Software and ensures that SaaS application definitions and the ruleset used for recognition are made available. |
Snow Update Service (SUS) | Provides the updated application definitions and ruleset generated by the DIS service to the Inventory Server and the License Manager servers in the customer’s implementation. |
Snow Inventory Server |
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Snow Inventory Agents for Windows and macOS |
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Cloud Application Metering browser extensions | Run in the context of the browser, records the web pages visited, and stores the data together with the user login name and the date stamp locally. |