FlexNet Manager Suite Oracle Practice Guide

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Summary

Oracle Practice Guide

Synopsis

This is a guide to project planning, installation, configuration, and operation of FlexNet Manager® for Oracle. The Oracle Practice Guide has been created to help answer some of your FlexNet Manger and Oracle Software License Optimization questions. This Practice Guide describes strategies for managing Oracle licenses while providing Oracle licensing knowledge.

We've also outlined an iterative approach (using milestones and work streams) to conducting an Oracle license reconciliation project. Using this iterative approach, with each milestone and work stream, your Oracle licensing position becomes more refined, optimized and mature, delivering faster results.

Discussion

Below is the Oracle Practice Guide Table of Contents, with all the useful topics covered:

• Table of Contents. 2
• Scope. 4
• FlexNet Manager Suite Coverage Summary. 4
• Overview of a License Reconciliation Project 6
• Overview of Milestones: Oracle Considerations. 10
• Oracle Licensing & FNMS. 11
  • Oracle Licensing Basics. 11
  • Term vs. Perpetual 11
  • Metrics. 11
  • Technology vs. Application Products. 12
  • Contracts vs. Policies. 12
  • Oracle License Types and Metrics. 13
  • Technology Licensing. 15
  • Application Licensing. 20
  • Custom Metrics. 21
  • Oracle Legacy. 22
  • Oracle License Agreements. 23
  • Oracle Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) Library and Product Use Rights Library (PURL) Coverage. 24
  • Oracle License Management Services (LMS) 24
  • Overview. 24
  • Being "audit ready" 26
  • LMS Tools. 26
  • Complexity. 28
• Planning and Implementation. 29
  • Milestone 0 (Pre-Engagement Planning) 30
  • Milestones 1-3. 31
• Discovery & Inventory Normalization. 31
  • Oracle Database Discovery. 33
  • Inventory. 33
  • Hardware and Software Inventory. 35
  • Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) support in the Flexera Inventory Agent 36
  • Oracle Database Unspecified Editions and Unknown Components in the ARL. 36
  • Oracle Inventory Troubleshooting Matrix. 37
  • Virtualization Inventory. 38
  • Flexera Oracle Inventory (also known as "Database Introspection") 38
  • Oracle Database Instance Inventory using the FlexNet Inventory Agent 39
  • Oracle Instance Inventory using Remote Inventory Rules. 40
  • Oracle Inventory Scanner (aka OraTrack) 41
  • Oracle Database instance inventory using inventory spreadsheet or CSV Import 41
  • Oracle Database Options and Management Packs. 41
  • Additional data collection requirements. 43
  • Tracking Saturation and Troubleshooting for Oracle Database inventory. 43
  • Inventory of other application attributes not included in Flexera Oracle Inventory. 44
  • Oracle Editions (other than for Oracle Database) 44
  • Applications. 45
  • IATrack Alternative. 46
• License Creation & Optimization. 46
  • License Creation. 48
  • Processing Purchases and Recommendations. 48
  • Oracle Bundles. 48
  • Optimization. 50
  • Hard vs Soft Cost Savings. 50
  • Support Cost Savings. 50
  • License Re-Harvesting and Shelving. 51
  • Application Portfolio Rationalization (APR) 52
  • Optimizing Applications: EBS and Siebel example. 52
  • Engineered Systems. 55
  • Working with Customer Support Identifiers (CSIs) 55
  • Partitioning and Virtualization. 56
  • Managing Processor and NUP licenses in a single environment 58
  • Restrictions, Limited Use Licenses and Prerequisites. 59
  • Data Recovery. 60
  • Development licenses and the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) 61
  • Standard Editions and socket-based licensing. 61
  • Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 62
  • Different NUP minimums on different servers. 63
  • Oracle's Matching Service Levels Policy. 63
  • Oracle in the Cloud Computing Environment 63
• Reporting & Governance. 64
  • License Position Reports. 64
  • Gap Analysis. 64
  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) 65
  • Oracle Server Worksheet 65
  • Oracle License Optimization Report 65
  • Oracle Instances view. 67
  • Advanced reports on Oracle Optimization. 67
• Other Resources. 67
• Oracle Acronyms. 68
• Feedback. 69
  • Contact Information 70

Additional Information

Customers, partners & employees can access the Practice Guides through the Flexera Learning Center which is part of our Customer Community. 

Flexera Learning Center: Learning Center (make sure you are logged on with your Community logon and search for Guide)

If you're not able to access the guide, please contact learning@flexera.com  

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