FlexNet Manager Suite: Agent I/O Communication
Back to Start: Introduction to Series Agent to and from Beacon Communication Below is a breakdown of files transferred from the Agent to the Beacon and the Beacon to the Agent. Your diagram should ...
Back to Start: Introduction to Series Agent to and from Beacon Communication Below is a breakdown of files transferred from the Agent to the Beacon and the Beacon to the Agent. Your diagram should ...
Back to Start: Introduction to Series Data Flow Considerations There are various Data Flow Considerations; below, you will find the most commonly discussed in the past. NOTE: Not all Data Flow...
FlexNet Manager Suite Data Elements FlexNet Manager Suite uses multiple data elements that are obtained from various sources. Below is a general walkthrough and setup using FlexNet Manager Suite, inc...
You’re probably aware of IBM Cloud Paks. They’re integrated software solutions built on the Red Hat open hybrid cloud platform. These make it possible to deploy anywhere in the Kubernetes container en...
IBM Cloud Pak’s and Non-Cloud Pak Products Sub-capacity Reporting in the Kubernetes Environment IBM now sells software licenses through ‘IBM Cloud Paks’, a new form of multiproduct bundle license offe...
Join us for the unique opportunity to shape Flexera’s future by enrolling in the new Flexera Product Discovery Community! Product Discovery is our way of getting direct feedback on our products. When ...
A common question that needs to be considered when deploying FlexNet Manager Suite is what technology to use to gather hardware and software details (aka "inventory") from computers and virtual instan...
What is the difference between installed inventory agent vs agentless inventory? Installed inventory agent and agentless inventory collection, collect the same inventory data but there are differences...
I have been asked recently by quite a few large enterprises about how they can optimize their concurrent licensing estate by analysing the usage data produced by these types of applications. In compar...
Oracle Software (BYOL) Licensing in Authorized Cloud Environment in FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R2.1 Oracle software (BYOL) licensing in the authorized cloud computing environment has different complia...
Simplified and easy to manage purchase order processing and transparency Flexera appreciate our customers and partners valued feedback to improve our solutions to provide more value (decrease time to ...
Editorial notes: This is a crosspost from the original posts which can be found on Data Platform Blog or Software Vulnerability Management Blog. Notes: this article is about a current event which is...
Question: What are root access privileges? Answer: The usage ‘root access privileges’ is typically used to refer to permissions given to a username or account that has access to all commands and files...
Enable Software Usage Tracking Based on Add/Remove Evidence FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R2 now provides an option to enable usage tracking based on add/remove evidence (applies to Windows platforms). H...
With the FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R2 release, we introduce the improved IBM DB2 database and their add-ons recognition capability for all On-Prem, MSP, and Cloud customers. Why is this feature impo...
Inventory Device Matching Transparency FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R2 bringing many features that are going to provide a lot more value and Inventory device matching transparency is one of them. A new ...
ServiceNow inventory connector to import ServiceNow Discovery data into FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R2 The ServiceNow inventory connector allows you to import into FlexNet Manager Suite inventory data ...
IBM Cloud Pak’s and Non-Cloud Pak Products Sub-capacity Licensing using VPC Metric IBM now sells software licenses through ‘IBM Cloud Paks’, a new form of multiproduct bundle license offering which is...
There are three new dashboard mock ups that have been created that needs feedback from our customers by September 9 2020. They are: License Consumption and Position Producer Scorecard Filtering of ...
We’re incredibly proud to announce that Flexera has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management Tools (July 2020) for the third consecutive year...
A Docker container image is a package of all the scripts, software, runtime, system tools, libraries, and configuration required to run an application. A container image can be launched as a Docker c...
Flexera SaaS Manager is a great tool for managing your software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions, related usage, and so on. FlexNet Manager Suite (release 2020 R1 and later) has a straight-forward co...
Applies to: FlexNet Cloud Historically, the data exports were limited to exporting data using out of the box or custom reports. Until now, this limited what data customers were able to extract from t...
What is Digital Access? A lot of you have been wondering what the SAP’s new ‘Digital Access’ license model is all about. Some of you might be aware of the older and less defined ‘Indirect Access’ lice...
With the FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R1 release we introduce the Oracle Transparency capability for all on-prem customers. Oracle Transparency was already introduced for the FlexNet Manager Suite clou...
What are Containers in FNMS 2020 R1? Containers are a new type of application virtualisation that provides much greater flexibility and scalability then other technologies. The most popular of these ...
As we engaged with several customers and partners in discussions around FlexNet Manager Analytics, we have identified a desire to replace the existing “static” Management Dashboard in FlexNet Manager ...
As part of FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R1 we are delivering an expanded set of Analytics dashboards and insights. We developed these visualizations in collaboration with several customers and partners,...
Accessing FlexNet Manager Analytics FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R1 delivers an expanded set of Analytics dashboards and insights. We developed these visualizations in collaboration with several custome...
Being able to meter the usage of applications is very helpful to understand where applications are deployed but not used, where applications may be able to be uninstalled to reclaim licenses, where ap...