FlexNet Manager Blog (Archived) — 0_Adrian Bideaua (Flexera Software)
[IMPORTANT UPDATE: 9 December 2020] Great news - Our Flexera customer and partner community now have a direct opportunity to share ideas and participate in future feature planning. Learn more and add your ideas via the Ideas Portal moving forward. Please note if you have added an idea to this discussion, we will migrate the idea to the new portal and notify you once it's been done. Thank you to everyone for active participation!
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You can help shape Flexera's future by sharing ideas for improving FlexNet Manager solutions. We know you work with this product, probably every day. Not only see how well it works now, but you also have ideas for making it better.
Your feedback is essential to informing product decisions and shaping how FlexNet Manager and other Flexera solutions will evolve. The Ideas board is gone. But, don’t worry. Ideas you submitted to the Idea board are not lost. And a new spot for collecting ideas will find a permanent place on the Flexera Community in June.
In the meantime, we still want to hear your suggestions.
The comments below this article are your spot to offer ideas. Flexera’s product team will regularly review the ideas you post. The product team primarily is watching for ideas that gain traction among members of the community. That’s why it’s important for you to both leave your ideas but also support other excellent product ideas you see.
How it works:
- You’ll need to register with and log in to the community. Click “Sign In” in the upper right-hand corner. If you don’t have an account, create one by clicking “Let’s go!’ on the sign in page. Or log in if you already are registered.
- Check if your suggestion already is posted in the comments below. If it is, click the thumbs up to give it a kudo. More likes will increase the visibility and help us prioritize.
- Submit your idea for a product change, if it isn’t there.
One more thing: You don’t need to mention bug fixes or other issues that Flexera’s Support team could handle.
You can open a support case by clicking on “Get Support” drop-down menu at the top of the page if you have a maintenance plan.
Thank you for your help.
Hi
An out of the box inventory adapter for AWS Systems Manager would be great. These adapters should be downloadable separate from FNMS version upgrades.
In general all cloud integrations will be really important if we shall keep FNMS on the edge.
Hi,
Some ideas:
- Link to download the inventory of each agent.
- Number of agents and agent name per beacon.
- Graph of the reconcile time.
- Easy way to schedule the inventory time.
- Specify log folders to isolate the the full reconcile or least be able to change the name of the log.
It would really help sysadmin
Rgds,
Alexandre
General email alert & reporting functionality.
The contract management portal thread (https://community.flexera.com/s/FlexNet-Manager-forum/The-future-of-the-Contract-Management-Portal96071 ) shows how much this is requested.
Beyond Contracts, this could be useful for Licenses (e.g. change in compliance status, exceeding xx% of existing entilements, maintenance expiry), for Applications (e.g. new unauthorized installations found).
I think, this would be a chance integrate FNMS into existing responsibilities and workflows.
New object in FNMS to distinguish between users and accounts.
As mentioned in the forum before (https://community.flexera.com/s/FlexNet-Manager-forum/User-vs-Account95994 ), please consider changing the data schema to differentiate between Users (natural persons) and Accounts (e.g. Active Direcory, SAP, Azure, ...). Predefined account roles (e.g. Tech account, Admin account, Dev account) might also be helpful in this context.
I imagine this to work a bit like VM-Host relationships in host licensing scenarios. VMs do have the application, but the host consumes. Accounts are related to an aplication, but the person consumes.
Existing license types, like Microsoft User CAL, require a properly filtered user list because they will simply take every user. So potentially, there goes a lot of extra work into managing users in FNMS. Also customers running multiple domains/environements or just wanting a reliable overview, could benefit from this.
Hi,
how about getting rid of all alert messages for all inventory devices, as soon as their status was being set to ignored?
Thanks & best regards
Oliver
Hi,
one customer was asking Flexera to please support for our non-Windows FlexNet Inventory Agent a proxy configuration where a dedicated user account and password can be used.
Thanks & best regards
Oliver
Hi,
how about including in this thread the JIRA number from Flexera product management to all this good ideas from everybody as a give and take or in some cases the answer that it will not be considered within the next couple of years?
Thanks & best regards
Oliver