Deprecation of Cloud Management Policies
The following Flexera Cloud Management Policies have been depreciated and are no longer being updated. The policies can still be used in the Flexera NAM environment. They can also be modified as cus...
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Governance Credential Support for Self Service Plugins
We are pleased to announce that the Flexera CMP Self Service module now supports the use of Governance Credentials for provisioning cloud resources using the Self Service Plugins. This update allow...
Cloud Management Platform login problems arising from expired security certificate
Flexera customers using the Cloud Management Platform may experience issues with login due to an expired security certificate. The fix for the issue is simple. Please refer to the following instructi...
Release Notes for Week of March 15 2021
Platform Changes The FROM email address in the Policy Incident emails changed to noreply@flexera.com from noreply-governance@rightscale.com New Policy Templates Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Linux - Th...
Release Notes for Week of Dec 21 2020
New Policy Templates Policy Updates Be informed of updated policy templates in the Policy Catalog. This policy template identifies the version of all the policies that are applied in an account and co...
Release Notes for Week of Sept 7
Changes to Existing Policies AWS Old Snapshots included Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings.AWS Delete Unused Classic Load Balancers ...
Release Notes for Week of Aug 24 2020
New Policies Azure - Schedule Instance allows you to schedule start and stop times for your Azure virtual machine.Google - Schedule Instance allows you to schedule start and stop times for your Google...
Release Notes for Week of Aug 10 2020
New Features The Policy Manager has a new feature to allow users to run actions on selected resources within a Policy Incident. The user also can select an action to run automatically when the inciden...
Release Notes for Week of Jun 22 2020
New Policies SaaS Manager - SaaS App User Report by Category uses Flexera SaaS Manager to identify users entitled to SaaS apps within a specified department.Budget Alerts by Cloud Account uses Optima ...
Release Notes for Week of Jun 1 2020
New Policies Azure Sync Tags with Optima identifies all Azure tag keys that are not being used as custom dimensions in Flexera Optima.ServiceNow Inactive Approvers identifies approver users in Service...
Release Notes for Week of May 18
New Policies SaaS Manager - Duplicate User Accounts creates an incident when Flexera SaaS Manager identifies duplicate user accounts within a single managed SaaS application.SaaS Manager - Unsanctione...
Release Notes for week of May 11, 2020
New Features The Policy Manager has an improved incident table. The new incident table allows users to sort columns, hide and show columns and filter for text within the table. This feature requires t...
Release Notes for week of April 6, 2020
New Features The Policy Manager now allows users to update configuration options of an Applied Policy. See the documentation to learn more.The Policy Manager now allows user to set the Severity when ...
Release Notes for week of March 16, 2020
New Policies AWS Long Running Instances checks for instances that have been running for a long time and may be able to be terminated or upgraded.Azure Old Snapshots checks for snapshots on Azure that ...
Release Notes for week of February 24, 2020
New Features Credential manager now supports native creation and editing of credentials for Azure Resource Manager, Azure Enterprise Agreement, and Google cloud. These native editors simplify the proc...
Release Notes for week of January 13, 2020
New Features Policies now have credential management built-in to the product, making it easier to connect your different clouds for policy governance. Along with the feature release, many policies hav...
Release Notes for week of December 2, 2019
New Policies Disallowed Cloud Images reports on any image usage outside of the specified approved images.SaaS Manager - Suspicious Users creates an incident when Flexera SaaS Manager detects suspiciou...
Release Notes for week of November 11, 2019
New Policies AWS Long-Stopped Instances checks for instances stopped longer than the specified period of time and terminates the instance after user approval.Google Long-Stopped Instances checks for i...
Release Notes for week of November 4, 2019
New Policies AWS Savings Plan Recommendations uses the AWS Cost Explorer to raise incidents if AWS recommends any Savings Plan purchases where the savings is more than the specified threshold.AWS EC2 ...
Release Notes for week of October 28, 2019
New Policies Azure Regulatory Compliance provides an overview of the regulatory compliance controls and compliance scores from Azure Security CenterNetFlow Top Talkers uses RISC Foundations data to id...
Release Notes for week of October 21, 2019
New Policies Running Instance Count Anomaly checks for changes in the count of instances running in a specific account over the prior 30-day period and alerts you if the count has crossed the specifie...
Release Notes for week of October 7, 2019
Changes to Existing Features Policies can now be configured to run on a monthly interval for use cases that require less frequent checks. Simply choose the monthly option under policy schedule when ap...
Release Notes for week of September 30, 2019
New Policies Azure Instances not running FlexNet Inventory Agent checks for any instances in Azure not running the agent so that you can ensure full license coverage across your compute landscape.Flex...
Release Notes for week of September 23, 2019
Changes to Existing Policies Multiple policies were modified to include a manual approval step before taking action so that items can be reviewed before being modified. Manual approval for any policy ...
Release Notes for week of September 16, 2019
New Features Policies can now be restricted to only being applied in one account by the policy designer for those policies that do cross-account checks and actions. Avoid accidental policy application...
Release Notes for week of September 9, 2019
New Features Organizational Summaries give users with org-scoped access to policies an improved view of policy information across all accounts in the organization. All operational views of policies, i...
August 2019 CMP and Policy Release Summary
We’ve been receiving some great feedback from you over the past few months about what kinds of policies would best help you manage your technology environment, and it’s been overwhelming listening to ...
Release Notes for week of August 26, 2019
New Policies Azure Long Stopped Instances checks for Azure VMs that have been stopped for a user-specified amount of time and optionally terminates the instances after approval.Azure AHUB Utilization ...
Release Notes for week of August 19, 2019
New Policies Azure Publicly Accessible SQL Managed Instances checks for publicly accessibly managed SQL instances in Azure and provides the option to disable the public endpoint or delete the instance...
Release Notes for week of August 12, 2019
Changes to Existing Policies Superseded Instances was updated to show the monthly estimated cost for each instance instead of the run rate.Cheaper Regions was updated to show the resource IDs of affec...
