Hi Bogdan,

You should consult the documentation and learning material . What you describe is standard procedure in FNMS and the view "Unprocessed Purchases" is supporting this workflow directly. It will, for example, make recommendations to link similar purchases to the same license.

Best regards,

Markward

I am going to assume your scenario is like the following:

You have 10 separate licenses in FNMS.  Each license is for the same application with the same metric and the same use rights.  The only difference is that on each license there is a different purchase with a different date.

One way to merge everything into a single license would be:

1) Go to the All Licenses view and apply a filter to find the 10 licenses.

2) Select 9 of the licenses and delete them - leaving 1 license remaining

3) Go to the Unprocessed Purchases view.  All of the purchases linked to the 9 deleted licenses will be displayed (you may need to refresh your browser to see them)

4) Link these purchases back to the 1 remaining license.

5) Reconcile

That should do the trick.  Again, this is assuming that all of the licenses are duplicated for the same product, license metric, and use rights.

Hi Bogdan,

Consolidating multiple licenses in FNMS into a single license usually will be a manual process (as described by "Captain Kirk").

You must be sure that all settings on the licenses to be consolidated are consistent. This is not only the settings on the "Identification", "Applications" and "Use rights and Rules" tabs, but also Contracts, Ownership and Group Assignment of the license. Do you have any documents linked to the licenses to be consolidated? Are there any maintenance settings from purchase orders that are potentially not identical?

In case you work in an on-premises FNMS environment and you have access to your database, you can do this consolidation using SQL. The SQL code should check if all relevant settings on the licenses to be consolidated are consistent. After this has been confirmed, the SQL code can create an additional new license for holding the consolidated data. You can then link all purchase orders that originally have been linked to the individual licenses to the new consolidated license.

Doing this with SQL is not something for the "fainted heart" though. For a one-off consolidation, you may be better off doing it manually from the FNMS Web UI.

Otherwise: Do some testing of the SQL code and create a backup of the [FNMSCompliance] database before applying the SQL to a FNMS production instance, please. Or try finding a good and reliable Flexera Business partner that you can trust upon ...