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schandpasha
By Level 8 Flexeran
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The Application Recognition Library (ARL), as used by FlexNet Manager, has been updated. The updated version for the ARL is #2441.

The Service Life Data Pack has been updated to version #290.

 

What's new in this release

 Changes to note:

  • This release has the much awaited publisher updates for Symantec and Veritas products. Existing 554 products and its relevant software titles have been associated to its current publisher. Other content library dependencies have been take care.
  • FNMS 2019 R1.5 applications have been added to the library.
  • Below products have been updated according to their re-branding
    • Certent Cognos Disclosure Management Advanced to Certent Cognos Disclosure Management with Data Aggregation
    • Certent Cognos Disclosure Management Advanced Starter to Certent Cognos Disclosure Management Starter with Data Aggregation
    • IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender family applications to IBM Tranformation Extender
  • Two tier 3 publisher applications have been updated to their current acquirer.
    • Anite Technologies to Keysight Technologies
    • Blithe Computer Systems to IDOX

Count of new applications added:

Publisher Number of Applications
IBM 135
Red Hat 84
Autodesk 66
Microsoft 38
VMware 38
Oracle 28
BMC Software 24
Remco Software 23
Octopus Deploy 22
Micro Focus 20
Other 132 Publishers 291
Total 769

 

Current Library Totals:

  • Number of applications in ARL: 286,291 across 17,426 publishers.
  • Number of evidence recognition rules: 977,330
    • Installer evidence rules: 641,904
    • File evidence rules: 334,160
    • WMI evidence rules: 1,266
    • Application suite evidence rules: 357
  • Number of commercial applications with service life dates: 32,211

 

Details of changes in the ARL

You can inspect changes made in this ARL release as per the following links:

 

Updating library data

FlexNet Manager Cloud: These updates are expected to be installed prior to Monday, July 29, 2019.

FlexNet Manager On-premises: This library release will be applied to your FlexNet Manager according to schedule settings and processes configured for your instance. If your environment requires to you manually download and update library data, see the following article for guidance: Downloading the FlexNet Manager Suite Content libraries manually.

You can inspect the versions of currently installed libraries using the system Menu > System Health > System Health Dashboard menu option in FlexNet Manager.

Upcoming ARL and Service Life Data Pack updates: We nominally expect the next ARL and Service Life Data Pack updates to be published on or around Thursday, August 1, 2019.

 

Reporting issues with ARL and SLDP updates

Should you have any issues related to FlexNet Manager library data, please submit a case by logging in to the Flexera Community and then select the Get Support > Open new case menu option.

We are interested in feedback on these announcements. If you have any questions or suggestions for improvements, please comment below.

We trust that you will find this update helpful and look forward to continually improving your application recognition results.

 

Flexera Content Team

(1) Comment
schandpasha
By Level 8 Flexeran
Level 8 Flexeran
All,
 
Please be aware that we have identified an issue in FlexNet ARL release #2441 impacting the linking of SQL Server Enterprise applications to licenses. Symptoms that may be observed including SQL Server Enterprise applications being unexpectedly unlinked from licenses. And consequently license consumption for SQL Server Enterprise licenses may be unexpectedly low.
 
We will be updating the ARL within the next few hours to correct this issue. SQL Server Enterprise links to licenses are expected to be restored automatically when the updated ARL is applied to FlexNet systems.
 
Thank you for co-operation,
Content team