tracking application usage

Is there a script or application that will allow me to monitor local application usage through our network and track that information through the server?
We use softtrack to monitor application usage on the servers, but we have some applications installed locally on our macs and we need a way to track the local usage and somehow get that information to softtrack.
With windows we use Visual Basic to track local application on our windows machines.

: Is there a script or application that will allow me to monitor local
: application usage through our network and track that information through
: the server?
: We use softtrack to monitor application usage on the servers, but we have
: some applications installed locally on our macs and we need a way to track
: the local usage and somehow get that information to softtrack.
: With windows we use Visual Basic to track local application on our windows
: machines.
I have no experience with application tracking but AppTracker appears
to fit the description. I’m not sure how you would go about transferring
the info to softtrack unless it could be done by scripting or using a
common import/export format.
FYI, an AppleScript could probably be written to track application usage
but I doubt that it would be the best way to go.
Rob J

Rob is probably right when he says “but I doubt that it would be the best way to go”. However, you could give the following some consideration. Make your app ‘stay open’. Set a variable to “the processes” (or the equivalent in the Finder). Check, via an idle handler, for any change in “the processes” which would 1) be, say, recorded in a data file and dealt with later, or dealt with there and then, and 2) reset the variable to the new status quo.
Andreas