2025 R1 Release for FlexNet Manager Suite (FNMS)

We’re excited to announce our FlexNet Manager Suite 2025 R1 release. It is now available for download from the Product and License Center in the Flexera Community.

Release Highlights

• Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) VM inventory collection: FlexNet Manager Suite now supports the discovery and inventory of Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV), allowing the identification and collection of VM-Host and Host-Cluster relationships hosted on Nutanix servers managed by Nutanix.
• New Microsoft 365 GCC High Adapter for US Government customers: The new Microsoft 365 GCC High Adapter is provided to allow US Government customers to import data to FlexNet Manager Suite from Microsoft 365 / Microsoft Azure Government environments. The data collected will be used to calculate license consumption, and gives US Government customers visibility of their Microsoft 365 estate.
• Accessibility Improvements: Accessibility enhancements have been made to ensure compliance with WCAG 2.1 standards. The updates include both visible and behind-the-scenes changes to the FlexNet Manager Suite user interface in the browser for Responsive Layout, Consistent Navigation Concept, Enhanced Keyboard Usability, WCAG-Compliant Contrast, and Improved Screen Reader Support.
• CyberArk support for managing third party inventory adapters: This enhancement addresses STIG compliance, allowing government customers to leverage CyberArk for credential handling across domains and to provide secure integration for third party inventory adapters in FlexNet Manager Suite.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) adapter can detect running instances: The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) adapter has been enhanced to enable the extraction of running instances from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and their import into FlexNet Manager Suite. This update builds on the previous functionality for extracting Autonomous Database Instances.
• Support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a default cloud service provider detected by inventory agents: OCI is detected as a default CSP to ensure comprehensive inventory management across all major cloud service providers.
• Licence key management and usability enhancement: This enhancement introduces several UI improvements that simplify license key management and assignment to users and devices including bulk import via csv files or Business Adapter Studio.
• New columns showing the total number of virtual machines (VMs) with operating system variant added to the Cluster reporting object in Report Builder: The Report Builder has been further enhanced to report on the total number of virtual machines (VMs) with operating system variant (Windows, SUSE Linux, RHEL) for each host and its parent cluster, enabling more accurate license consumption calculations.
• VMware vSAN inventory now collected and recognized: Broadcom VMware vSAN is now collected and recognized as VMware inventory. The VMware Inventory page has been updated with the following new properties: Cluster name, Cluster Required vSAN Capacity (The total number of TiBs (Tebibytes) used by vSAN datastores in the cluster), and Host required vSAN capacity (TiBs).
• Enhanced Tanium adapter to support cloud properties: The Tanium adapter has been enhanced to support cloud properties. With this enhancement, users can bring in custom fields and usage data from Tanium, which will be normalized and made available in FlexNet Manager Suite.

This release comes together with a newer version of the FlexNet Inventory Agent and Inventory Beacon.

Here is a list of relevant changes:

• FlexNet Inventory Agent version 24.0.0 changes for 2025 R1
• Inventory Beacon 24.0.0 changes for 2025 R1

Changes of supported versions:

• Changes to Supported Microsoft SQL Versions: FlexNet Manager Suite will discontinue support for Microsoft SQL Server versions that have reached the end of Microsoft's mainstream support to leverage the enhanced features, performance optimization, bug fixes, and security updates available in newer, actively supported Microsoft SQL Server versions.
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 10 Requirement for New Security Features: As part of ongoing penetration testing and security enhancements, FlexNet Manager Suite has introduced new security features that are supported exclusively on IIS 10
• Changes to supported operating systems and compatibility with other products: Several operating system versions have been added to the list of supported operating systems on FlexNet Inventory Agent. More product versions have been added to the compatibility list of FlexNet Manager Suite with other products.

For the full lists, see the Prerequisite Software topic and the Compatibility with Other Products topic in System Requirements and Compatibility.

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