All,
I have a situation in FNMS where a device is consuming a license with lower priority.
In the assessment it says:
Lic consumed (Prio 2): Allocation of a license entitlement to this device triggers automatic consumption.
Lic not assessed (Prio 1): The license was not assessed, because the device or user has consumed from a higher priority license, or has an allocation from another license.
See attachment.
Can someone help?
Feb 10, 2022 03:46 AM
Hello all,
I might have been encountered some of the quirks of Flexera FNMS.
I have removed the purchase order of the License with corporate unit "X".
In the purchase order I increased the purchase quantity with 100%.
I processed the purchase order and linked it to the License with corporate unit "X".
After a Reconcile I checked the consumption of both licenses.
They were all okay! Also the License with corporate unit "X" was consuming from the right devices (all of corporate unit "X").
Flexera FNMS is now handling as expected.
Hereafter I did the same steps shown above to correct the purchase quantity (minus 100%).
After the Reconcile, the consumption is still correct (meaning as expected according the Flexera documentation).
I now am only wondering if the step of increasing the purchase quantity with 100% was necessary. This I don't know, but I am happy that my problem is solved.
Remaining only, thanking you all for your support!
Feb 12, 2022 01:58 AM
Good morning Harry, I hope you're well?
This is expected behaviour, if you have the License allocated to this device or user.
From the Online Help:
"Allocated — The standard type of allocation, indicating that this installation (of the application linked to the license) is given top priority in consuming entitlements from this license, and cannot consume from other licenses, even though they may be linked to the same application."
https://docs.flexera.com/fnms/EN/WebHelp/index.html#topics/Allocated-LicProp.html
What's your intended behaviour here?
I'm curious as to why we have a License allocated to this device or user, but it sounds like your goal is to consume the other License?
Best regards,
Jack
Feb 10, 2022 04:31 AM
Feb 10, 2022 07:22 AM
@Harry007 - Some of the reasons that I can think of that the installation is consuming against the second license would be:
1 - The Device/User is allocated against the second license
2 - The Corporate Unit linked to the Device/User is different that the Corporate Unit that you have restricted the first license with
3 - The Device/User does not have a Corporate Unit assigned, so it is consuming against License 2 that does not have a restriction
4 - The first license is fully consumed and therefore FNMS is starting to consume against the second license
Feb 10, 2022 09:31 AM
Feb 10, 2022 10:15 AM
The "Allocation of a license entitlement to this device triggers automatic consumption" assessment reason shown in the screenshot suggests to me that the inventory device is allocated to the license - this assessment reason wouldn't make sense without an allocation.
Are you sure a sneaky allocation hasn't crept in somewhere?
Feb 11, 2022 12:08 AM
All,
Maybe next information will help to explain in detail what I tried to achieve.
It is part of the Flexera Help documentation, subject "Restrictions tab":
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If, instead, you want to enforce that computers in India should first consume from License For India, use group assignments. These change the priority ordering, but only for the target groups.
If you want both outcomes, that Indian computers consume from License For India and no one else may do so, use both group assignment and a restriction. The group assignment changes the priority (for the target groups) so that the example now becomes:
The full set of licenses for MyApp, in priority order (shown for a computer in India)
License For India (restricted to location India and its children, plus group assignment)
License A
License C
An installation for a computer outside India sees only this list to choose from:
License A
License C
An installation for a computer inside India sees the full list to choose from:
License For India (restricted to location India and its children, plus group assignment)
License A
License C
Now, because the group assignment elevated the priority (for this group), Indian computers consume from License For India until it is exhausted, and then switch to License A. Because of the restriction, outside computers start consuming from License A.
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Read for "India", my corporate unit "X" then you have my situation.
All devices with corporate unit "X" should consume the license with corporate unit "X" (License X).
All other devices should consume another license (License Y). License Y has no corporate unit defined.
Both licenses (X and Y) have the same applications due to up- and downgrade rights.
License X has prio 1 and License Y has prio 2.
For both licenses, in the Use rights & rules, the "Allocations consume license entitlements" is not set. Meaning the consumption should be defined by the "Installed" applications.
The result is that a device with corporate unit "X" consumes License Y.
My question is: Why?
Feb 11, 2022 03:09 AM
Along the lines of the ideas that @kclausen suggested earlier, a couple of situations where license Y would likely be consumed in the configuration that you have described are:
A key point to consider is that there is nothing in the configuration of licenses here that says the installation of the software on the computer cannot be covered by License Y. License Y is still a valid license to cover installations in corporate unit "X" under the conditions I've described (and likely other conditions too).
Feb 11, 2022 03:33 AM
Hello all,
I might have been encountered some of the quirks of Flexera FNMS.
I have removed the purchase order of the License with corporate unit "X".
In the purchase order I increased the purchase quantity with 100%.
I processed the purchase order and linked it to the License with corporate unit "X".
After a Reconcile I checked the consumption of both licenses.
They were all okay! Also the License with corporate unit "X" was consuming from the right devices (all of corporate unit "X").
Flexera FNMS is now handling as expected.
Hereafter I did the same steps shown above to correct the purchase quantity (minus 100%).
After the Reconcile, the consumption is still correct (meaning as expected according the Flexera documentation).
I now am only wondering if the step of increasing the purchase quantity with 100% was necessary. This I don't know, but I am happy that my problem is solved.
Remaining only, thanking you all for your support!
Feb 12, 2022 01:58 AM