Software Metering is not generating rules

Hi,
I have software metering enabled to collect data every 2 days.
I have also enabled "Auto-create disabled metering rules from recent usage inventory data" with 10% and 1000 rules for the other two fields.
I find that not a single rule has been generated till now.
I am unable to find any article so far on troubleshooting this issue. Can someone please shed some light on this?
Edit: By the way, am I being impatient or does this process take days to complete? It has been 2 hours since this was enabled and I have ensured the data collection happens during working hours. In fact, it was set to happen about 20 mins back.

2 hours? yes, you are being impatient. check tomorrow--or better yet, next week. :)
Back (previous job) when I was trying to use the built-in stuff for Metering (new job we use a 3rd party application), one thing I learned was to find out from the powers-that-be *exactly* what they intend to do with this data. Depending upon what
they expect to do with the results, it may (or may not) make sense to create a custom rule metering for widgets version *, instead of when the auto-created rules might make 4 different rules you would optionally enable, one each for version 1, 2, 3, 4... and
then next week when you deploy version 5... you aren't monitoring for that. and then 3 months later Mgmt asks why the usage of Widgets isn't being properly tracked, and you trace it back to not enabling the rule for version 5....
Personally, I doubt you'll get a comprehensive answer to the question from the powers-that-be. In my experience, they don't know yet exactly what they will do with the information--they just want the information, and they'll figure out a strategy later.
But you can always ask... and make yourself look awesome and forward thinking to mgmt. (when really, you just want to CYA so you don't get yelled at for neglecting to enable that monitoring rule for Widgets 5 next week).
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