Hi I have a customer looking to see when FNMS will be able to collect this infomation below. Is it in the road map for future releases.
Thanks,
Steve
āJul 09, 2019 06:23 PM
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your questions. We are actively working to improve our capabilities in the areas you mentioned. I will contact you to get more details on this.
Thank you,
Pratul.
āJul 10, 2019 09:59 AM
We also have a customer that wants to manage AWS RDS for Oracle using the BYOL option. Were there any capabilities towards this end in the recent 2019R2 release? If not, are there any recommendations on how to manage the inventory gathering for AWS RDS for Oracle given that you cannot deploy an FNMS inventory agent?
āDec 22, 2019 08:29 PM
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āDec 23, 2019 03:12 AM - edited āDec 25, 2019 02:23 AM
Thanks for the reply. However, I'm looking for more concrete information regarding handling a AWS Oracle RDS BYOL license management scenario using FNMS. Typically you would either deploy the FNMS agent into the target Oracle DB server and gather software/hardware/oracle inventory. For VMs, you'd also have to get the physical hardware inventory typically through the hypervisor.
In the case of Oracle RDS in AWS, you cannot deploy an FNMS inventory agent because the oracle database is provided as a service. I am assuming that you could do a remote Oracle inventory from the beacon via the RDS listener (this is an unconfirmed assumption). But this would still leave the problem of determining the vCores used for the Oracle RDS services in question. In other words, FNMS needs the number of vCores to calculate an Oracle DB license position for Oracle Databases running in the cloud. How would this be accomplished?
One idea might be to ask the customer to tell us the AWS EC2 instance type (e.g. t1.micro, t2.small), using this information from amazon, https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/physicalcores/, we could then create a inventory spreadsheet and upload it into FNMS as hardware evidence. However, this is quite tedious and we're looking for a more elegant, automated solution.
āDec 23, 2019 03:46 AM
āDec 23, 2019 07:50 AM
Actually, your post has reminded me there is already an AWS connector. Perhaps it is able to gather the RDS inventory (core) information as well. Can someone in the community comment?
āDec 23, 2019 09:51 PM
āDec 25, 2019 07:06 AM
I found this post as I also have a customer trying to monitor their Oracle BYOL requirements for RDS on AWS. Does Flexera have a formal, recommended solution? This post from ~1 year ago is the latest I can find here on the community...
āDec 07, 2020 01:56 PM
Hi Everyone,
Oracle BYOL support will be available to FNMS Cloud customers as part of the next cloud deployment and FNMS OnPrem as part of the next OnPrem release.
Regards!
Aamer
āDec 08, 2020 05:09 PM
Hello, has this been released? which version of FNMS supports it?
āOct 04, 2021 12:12 PM
It was released with 2020 R2.3 (Cloud/SaaS) and 2021 R1 (on-premise), please refer to Oracle Database inventory in Amazon RDS for BYOL
Thanks,
āOct 05, 2021 03:34 AM - edited āOct 05, 2021 03:34 AM
Get-RDSDBInstance Cmdlet returns information about provisioned RDS instances. This API supports pagination. This operation can also return information for Amazon Neptune DB instances and Amazon DocumentDB instances. This cmdlet automatically pages all available results to the pipeline - parameters related to iteration are only needed if you want to manually control the paginated output. To disable auto pagination, use -NoAutoIteration. AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code. On AWS: S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, EMR clusters, RedShift clusters all that is software inventory.
āAug 27, 2020 03:36 AM