Flexera One

Hi,

We have increasing number of inventory devices from AWS and Azure with duplicate entries.

For previous issues with duplicates I was seeing different serial numbers so wrote a power query to identify them and imported through a business adapter to set the duplicates to ignored and into a duplicates sub-location.

The current duplicates have matching names, serial numbers, VM UUID, IP and MAC address so the only differentiator is last inventory date. I've updated the business adapter to use Inventory Date and am looking to match on Serial number and last inventory date but this is not working (with no log I can find which explains why).

Has anyone successfully used inventory date as a field match in business adapter studio and if so what date format is it expecting - I'm in the UK so using dd/mm/yyyy as per how the date is displayed in the UI. Is it expecting US date format or a date and time stamp and is Inventory Date actually supported as a matching property for the Computer object?

If anyone has any other ideas to identify the duplicates and manage them without creating views that I then need to manually trudge through I'd be glad to hear them, or a way to stop the duplicates being created in the first place? I did find a previous fix for duplicate Azure machines when in a "Stopped (Deallocated)" state but these were producing different serial numbers so were simple to deal with.

Thanks,

Andy

Has anyone experienced an issue where virtualization data from VMware vCenter is being collected successfully in Flexera One, but the VM-to-host relationships are not being reflected in All Inventory and in License Consumption?

In our environment, the vCenters are connected and virtualization data appears to be available. When we run the VMs Inventory Gaps from vCenters report, we can see the expected relationships, including:

• Virtual Machine
• Host
• Cluster
• vCenter

However, when reviewing All Inventory and License Consumption, the virtual machines are not mapped to their respective hosts.

We are trying to understand:

• Have other Flexera One users encountered this behaviour?
• Are there specific configuration settings, inventory import considerations, or reconciliation requirements that could cause VM-to-host relationships to appear in the virtualization reports but not in inventory?
• What troubleshooting steps would you recommend to validate why the virtualization relationships are not being applied?

The reason this is important is that the missing host mappings are impacting virtualization recognition and licence calculations. Virtual machines are being treated as standalone devices and consuming licences individually, rather than inheriting coverage from the licensed host. This is resulting in higher-than-expected licence consumption and potentially inaccurate compliance reporting.

Any insights or recommendations from others who have experienced a similar issue would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,

In my organization, we are currently using FlexNet Manager Suite 2023 R2 with over 25,000 inventory agents, operating in on-premise mode. We are considering migrating to Flexera One. Could you please confirm if there is a fee associated with this migration? Additionally, does Flexera One offer an on-premise deployment option?

Thank you in advance.

Situation:

We utilize many open source and other freeware applications and utilities.

We also utilize many KPIs on a monthly and quarterly basis.

One KPI I create is % of licenses that have maintenance.

Clearly, the Commercial licenses (subscriptions, renewal maintenance, etc.) clearly take their Maintenance from the Procurement info from POs or Credit Cards.

However, I want the licenses I've created to map to my open source/freeware applications to show as having maintenance, but of course, they have no procurement info.

Is there a way to make a license show Yes for Maintenance without having procurement info feeding the license?

I am trying to set up and configure my licenses so that simple reports I create will show Yes for these. I want to avoid kludge things to force fake data to make the licenses show this Yes.

Thoughts?

Hello everyone,

My name is Jessica, and I’m a Support Analyst at Elo. I’m currently starting the implementation of Flexera One within our organization, with a focus on IT asset management and software license management.

I’m joining this community to learn from professionals who already have experience with the platform. I would greatly appreciate any tips, best practices, configuration recommendations, governance advice, guidance on deploying Beacons and Agents, or any lessons learned that could help us avoid common mistakes at the beginning of this journey.

Thank you in advance for your support. I look forward to exchanging experiences and learning from the community!

Thank you! 😊