Announcement
Flexera Inventory agent for Microsoft Windows has a plugin that was built to track Citrix VDI-End-Point usage to understand who has spun up a Citrix VDI. VDI technology has evolved over t...
Did you hear the exciting news that an Australian Chapter of the ITAM Forum is launching next week?
This promises to be a key place to connect with other leaders and practitioners working in IT asset ...
We are pleased to announce that with the ARL Update #2702 Flexera's Agent inventory capabilities have been extended. Our agent can now detect different Adobe Acrobat DC editions, such us Professional...
This article describes the configuration of a Reprise (RLM) based license server using FNMLC.
FNMLC is a tool created to ease and speed up the integration of concurrent license server(s) to the FlexN...
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Readers
Location: C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Compliance\ImportProcedures\Inventory\Reader
Readers are located on the batch server component. Dependin...
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Data Imports (One off uploads)
These one-off uploads are initiated from within the application UI. These records go directly to the database and can be org, in...
Active Directory Import
This part of the series will start looking into the more intricate parts of FlexNet Manager Suite, This is also the same for Flexera One.
First we start on the beacon, there ha...
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Architecture Overview
In this part of the series, we will look at what the complete picture looks like from an overview point. This topology is the same regardl...
Your opinion is important to us: Take it to Gartner® Peer Insights™
At Flexera, we take great pride in our Community. Your feedback is essential and helps shape our products and services. Because o...
As a leader in information technology, you’re invited to participate in this year’s Tech Spend Pulse survey. The survey will take less than ten minutes to complete and all answers are kept strictly co...
You may have seen the post in the Community Hub, the May SAM Best Practice Webinar, on May 5th at 10:00 AM Central US will cover the customizations that you can perform in Flexera One ITAM and FlexNet...
The following is a guest post from Murray Peters (@MurrayPeters), Senior Consultant and founding team member at Crayon Australia. Murray shares his depth of knowledge in Flexera products built up from...
This is all about sharing and applying best practices
You may have seen here and there interesting KB articles, using the powerful customizations possibilities of FNMS to provide extensions to the out...
Reminder: tomorrow, the SAM Best Practice Webinar will show how hybrid applications use cases are managed in Flexera One ITAM, such as Microsoft 365 (Online usage and on premise installations & usage)...
Summary
We are delighted to announce Flexera One ITAM/ITV and FNMS/ITAM OnPrem inventory and software licensing capabilities have been extended to support Linux distributions running on IBM Power PC (...
Hello ITAM users,
The March SAM Best Practice Webinar tomorrow will cover a critical topic: how to identify the high priority unrecognized evidences, how to extend the ARL recognition, how to make sur...
This article describe the configuration of a Sentinel based license server using FNMLC.
FNMLC is a tool created to ease and speed up the integration of concurrent license server(s) to the FlexNet Man...
While planning for the deployment of FlexNet inventory agents, questions are often raised about the amount of network traffic that is generated between computers running the agent and beacons that the...
All of us who work in the world of IT have been madly scrambling this week to assess where we stand in relation to the recently disclosed CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 (widely referre...
Recently, a vulnerability within Apache Log4j caught widespread public attention and has security, operational and development teams alike scrambling for analyzing the impact within their own eco syst...
Happy Wednesday Flexera Community!
We recently sent a letter to all our customers about upcoming changes to our business model beginning January 1st, 2022. We’ve included a copy of this letter below ...
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Definition of FNMS components
Below are the components of FNMS and a general explanation of how they function.
NOTE: What you will be able to access differs ...
A Knowledge Base Article: Adobe Subscriptions Optimization Report & Adobe Portal Users importer provides you the guidance and the code to import your subscription automatically from the Adobe Portal (...
This article is related to Flexera FNMS September Newsletter
A new track started in July: The monthly SAM Best Practices Webinars.
News and deep dive on specific topics, the goal of the webinars is to...
This article is related to Flexera FNMS August Newsletter
Oracle has decided in 2019 that any new Update of any Java versions… as well as any new “BPR” build, would require a license… either calculate...
This article is related to Flexera FNMS August Newsletter
Software Asset Management is a discipline with great benefits (license savings, smooth audits, automated chargeback) but also great challenges...
Have you ever observed that the Apps & Features (aka "Add/Remove Programs") UI in Windows doesn't display all software packages that are installed, and found it tedious to confirm details of installed...
FlexNet Inventory Agent and Inventory Beacon update for version 2018 R1 and later IOJ-2210678
The following inventory agent and inventory beacon hotfix has been made available for download through th...
FlexNet Manager Suite 2021 R1 release / ITAM in Flexera One Microsoft Azure Connector has been extended by adding support for Microsoft Az module to identify Azure instances running under Azure Hybrid...
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Beacon Communication to and from Inventory Server
This section will go over what files are transferred from the beacon to the inventory and inventory component...