
Big_Kev asked a question.
Hello App Portal experts
I have a client still using FNMS & App Portal 2017 version and surprisingly they are still working fine (integrated with each other). Now, It's time to do both products upgrade to the latest 2022 R1 (R2 for FNMS).
However I need some confirmation/suggestion of which product should be migrated first than the other? We are doing in-place upgrade Flexera product only. The reason of asking this question is in the real world the server downtime during the upgrade need be carefully planned. From what I found the FNMS 2022 R2 release note does officially mention it support almost all the previous version of app portal (2013 R2 -- 2022 R1 Sp1). https://docs.flexera.com/FlexNetManagerSuite2022R2/EN/SysReq/index.htmlFNMS_sys_req/RN_sys_req_other.html
But I am not able to see the supported version range of FNMS from the 2022 R1 App Portal release note then. (It looks to me I shall start FNMS upgrade first in this case , so if anything found when FNMS 2022 R1 not working with old AP 2017 , we still can get some support ? ).
Other concerns that in general, comparably the time spent on upgrading FNMS will be longer than App Portal. During the FNMS upgrade, it also impacts App Portal as the integration will likely be stopped (FNMS DB upgrade, FSG update etc), Also because AP is an IT store software , the number of users using AP will be larger than SAM team size who is using FNMS. With this concern, I am thinking maybe upgrade App Portal from 2017 to 2022 first.
Is anyone can confirm whether we upgrade App Portal to 2022 R1 sp1 ,it shall still work with FNMS 2017 ? Or say if anything noticed broken when 2022 R1 AP <> 2017 FNMS, will we get Flexera support still ?
@jdempsey , @CharlesW any inputs from you guys will be much appreciated.
Best Regards
Kev
Kevin,
We discussed something similar a while back in a different post. See https://community.flexera.com/s/App-Broker-Forum/App-Portal-FNMS-Version-Compatibility/td-p/269381Long story short, App Broker does not care what version of FNMS you are running.. For the most part, App Broker only calls into the FNMS compliance API service, which has changed very little over the years.
I guess I'd start by upgrading FNMS, as that will likely be much more challenging that upgrading App Broker (get the hard stuff out of the way first, I always say).