FNM Update: Application Recognition Library #2450 and Service Life Data Pack #299 are available

[schandpasha]

The Application Recognition Library (ARL), as used by FlexNet Manager, has been updated. The updated version for the ARL is #2450.

The Service Life Data Pack has been updated to version #299.

What's new in this release

 Changes to note:

• 45 applications have been added with lifecycle dates.
• In accordance with the latest Oracle announcement for Java, applications for 8.0.201 and 8.0.202 have been classified as freeware.
• Office for mac products version hierarchy has been updated.
• FNMS 2019 R1.6 products have been added.
• IBM Websphere Message Broker and Integration Bus product family have been re-branded to App Connect Enterprise.  
• Applications from below Tier3 publishers have been updated to their current acquirer.

Old publisher	Current publisher
AWIND and MirrorOp Team	Barco
Centennial Software	FrontRange Solutions
Netiq	Micro Focus
Blue Pumpkin	Verint Systems
CapturePerfect	Canon

Count of new applications added:

Publisher	Number of Applications
Canonical	104
Software in the Public Interest	79
Oracle	44
CentOS	43
IBM	36
Puppet	17
Microsoft	14
Micro Focus	10
The MathWorks	10
Adobe Systems	9
Other 176 Publishers	326
Total	692

Current Library Totals:

• Number of applications in ARL: 287,961 across 17,435 publishers.
• Number of evidence recognition rules: 982,324
  • Installer evidence rules: 645,991
  • File evidence rules: 334,706
  • WMI evidence rules: 1,269
  • Application suite evidence rules: 358
• Number of commercial applications with service life dates: 32,479

Details of changes in the ARL

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

• List of new applications added: https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=NewApplicationsARL2450
• List of new versions of applications added: https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=NewVersionsARL2450
• List of applications updated in the release: https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=UpdatedApplicationsARL2450
• List of new publishers added: https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=NewPublishersARL2450
• List of commercial applications added with service life dates: https://flexera-esd.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operations/WebContent?fileID=NewSLDPApplicationsARL2450

Updating library data

FlexNet Manager Cloud: These updates are expected to be installed prior to Monday, September 02, 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, September 05, 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