Flexera One ITAM & FlexNet Manager Suite Azure Integration Adapter Improvement

We appreciate your ongoing feedback and collaboration. We recognize that managing the lifecycle of Microsoft Azure inventoried instances/VMs can be challenging, especially since the Azure management API does not explicitly provide the status of terminated or deleted instances.

To address this, the integration between Flexera One ITAM, FlexNet Manager Suite, and Microsoft Azure has been enhanced to automatically manage Azure cloud instances/VMs that are not active anymore. This improvement reduces the time to value by automatically removing Azure instances that were inventoried but are not reported by the Azure Management API for the subscription accounts that are reported by the Azure adapter integration, as those instances have either been terminated or deleted.

The Flexera One ITAM and FlexNet Manager Suite integration with Microsoft Azure Cloud includes two key components that maximize value:

1. Flexera One ITAM Adapter: Provides Visibility into Current Azure Instances/VMs

• Offers visibility into the current state of Azure instances/VMs running within Azure subscription accounts managed by the Flexera Azure adapter (Adapter granted permission to read).
• Provides visibility into the current status of instances/VMs, which is essential for automating the lifecycle management of Azure instances/VMs.
• Also provides insight into instances/VMs utilizing the Azure Hybrid Benefit.

2. Flexera Inventory Agent: Inventories Customer-Managed Azure Instances/VMs

• The Flexera Inventory Agent identifies instances hosted in Azure subscriptions and captures subscription and resource IDs.

With this enhancement, the lifecycle management of Azure inventoried instances/VMs, tracked by the Flexera Inventory Agent, has been extended. Instances/VMs inventoried by the Flexera Inventory Agent but not reported by the Azure Adapter (for subscriptions managed by the Azure Adapter) will now be automatically removed, as they no longer exist.

This extension improves time to value and ensures that the license position for any licensed products running on those inventoried instances is current. Instances that were reported by the inventory agent but no longer exist (according to the Azure Adapter integration) will now be accurately reflected.

Recommendations

To maximize value, Flexera recommends configuring the Flexera One ITAM and FlexNet Manager Suite Azure adapter integration to grant read access to Azure instances/VMs across all Azure subscriptions. This ensures that inventoried instances/VMs identified by the Flexera Inventory Agent, running within the Azure subscriptions recognized by the Flexera Azure Adapter, can be automatically removed when they no longer exist.