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New Features Added to IT Asset Management in January 2025

Flexera One IT Asset Management January 2025 update includes the following new features and updates. 

Note: For detailed information on these new features and updates, see the What's New in Flexera One / January 2025.

New Features

• Ability to specify the cluster name in the Flexera Kubernetes Agent Helm chart
• Support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a default cloud service provider detected by inventory agents
• Addition of cluster information in inventory views and VM counts in Report Builder
• VMware vSAN inventory now collected and recognized
• Improvements to the IT Asset Management license page

Ability to specify the cluster name in the Flexera Kubernetes Agent

As Kubernetes does not have a native naming mechanism, the agent uses a variety of strategies to discover an appropriate name for the cluster; however, these strategies are not consistently reliable. This parameter allows you to directly assign a meaningful name to Kubernetes clusters. Note that this name is a display property, and the cluster is identified internally by a unique ID value.

Support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) discovery by Flexera inventory agents

Previously, IT Asset Management supported the three major cloud service providers (CSPs)—Azure, AWS, and GCP. If the FlexNet Inventory Agent is installed on a virtual system hosted with one of these CSPs. Now, OCI is also detected by the FlexNet inventory agent to identify VM’s running in the OCI public cloud. this information will be automatically fed into IT Asset Management.

Important: This feature requires version 82 or later of InventorySettings.xml and version 16.0.1 or later of the FlexNet Inventory Agent.

Addition of cluster information in inventory views and VM counts in Report Builder

In this release, the inventory views and Report Builder have been enhanced to include cluster information and VM counts:

• A new Cluster Name has been added to all the inventory views (such as Active Inventory, Ignored Inventory, Cloud Service Provider Inventory, and more) where the host name information is available. This column allows users to easily identify the cluster to which each host and VM belongs.
• The Report Builder now displays the number of VMs per host and per cluster. These fields help users to automate and improve the process of license allocation based on VM density.

FlexNet Beacon Now collects VMware vSAN inventory and recognized automatically

Flexera FlexNet Beacon has been extended to collect VMware vSAN software information (a software-defined storage solution that is integrated directly into the ESXi hypervisor) and recognized as VMware inventory. You can find it as an application inventory record on the VMware Inventory page, along with all the relevant properties collected about how it is licensed, such as Capacity, Keys assigned, Evaluation, and more.

Note: To collect the necessary vSAN information, FlexNet Beacon or ESXQuery tool version 23.1.0 or later (released with IT Asset Management version 2024 R2.1) is required.

Improvements to the IT Asset Management license page

The IT Asset Management License page displays the details of your IT Asset Management license. The Licensed products section on this page has been improved to provide clearer information and offer additional data about containers.

• The numbers of licensed devices are now categorized into Client licenses and Server licenses. Each category includes number of licensed devices, active devices, and available licenses.
• A new count Avg. active containers (90 days) is provided showing the average number of active containers over the past 90 days, together with the number of server licenses consumed by the active containers. Every 10 containers consume one server license. You can also view a chart displaying the daily active container counts over the past 90 days.

Changes from Previous Releases

• Changes to compatibility with other products
• FlexNet Inventory Agent 23.1.0 changes
• Inventory Beacon 23.1.0 changes

Changes to supported compatibility with other products

The following operating system versions have been added to the list of supported operating systems on FlexNet inventory agent:

• Fedora Linux 41
• Ubuntu 24.10
• Windows Server 2025

The following product versions have been added to the compatibility list of IT Asset Management with other products:

• BMC Discovery (previously ADDM) 24.3
• Citrix Virtual Apps server (previously XenApp server) 7.2407
• Citrix Virtual Desktops (previously Citrix XenDesktop) 7.2407
• EdgeSight for Citrix Virtual Apps (previously XenApp EdgeSight) 7.2407
• IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) or HCL BigFix Inventory on IBM DB2 9.2.37
• IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) or HCL BigFix Inventory on Microsoft SQL Server 9.2.37
• OpenText Universal Discovery 24.4HCL BigFix Inventory 9.2.33 on Microsoft SQL Server

We love to hear about your experiences, so let us know how things go with these updates by posting a comment here or in the Flexera One forum  Of course, the friendly Flexera Support team is also always standing by to take your call.

Thanks for being a partner of Flexera on this journey.