- Author: Nicolas Rousseau
- Author Email Address: nrousseau@flexera.com
- Solution Type: Custom Report (Application Transparency Report)
- Flexera Product & Version: FlexNet Manager 2016-2020R2
- Environment: On Premise Only
- Development Effort (Days): 0.3
- Implementation Effort (Days): 0.1
- Disclaimer:
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Important note (January 5th 2023): a new "Application Transparency" report has been introduced from ITAM / FNMS 2022R1 onwards, please use this one. More information here.
An example in the Java Standard 8 release notes: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/8u-relnotes.html. The list of public and restricted updates and builds are at the bottom of this answer...
To address this need, Flexera ARL had to link evidences based on their build level (available in Windows, the Unix agent will bring this capability in June). This build level management forced Flexera to change from a quite granular “update level recognition” to a “major version level” normalization, to avoid the mess of having tens of recognized builds and versions... The April announcement for the change can be found here: https://community.flexera.com/t5/Technopedia-Blog/Content-Change-Notification-Java-Build-version-changes/ba-p/184442
The downside is a loss of visibility on recognized applications. A report mitigates this issue and allows to understand (for all products) the recognized applications... and the raw versions of the evidences that allowed to recognize the applications. the description is below... the code of the report is attached.
Recognized Applications Transparency Report (NR)
Business need
The Flexera ARL normalizes the raw evidences to make the data manageable and align with the licensing requirements. The applications are often normalized at major version level.
There is however a need (for Java particularly) to understand what is the underlying exact version of the evidences that have been recognized into the application (major version).
NOTE THAT THIS REPORT HAS BEEN RELEASED WITH ITAM 2021 31.4 / FNMS 2022R1.
Description
The report shows all installations for the product named entered in the search filter (exact match on Product Name) and looks up all raw evidences that match this title for recognition (files (mandatory, at least one as a recognition rule, not ignored), installer (not ignored) or WMI (added with v5 of the report).
If several evidences led to the recognition of one installed application, there will be several rows in the report.
The report contains information on computer OS, location, corporate unit etc.
The version 4 of the report also manages the cases of suite recognition. For instance, if you enter "DB2" as an input, the report will return the suite components and the related file and installer evidences used for recognition. Version 4 greatly enhances performance.
Preview
Public and restricted versions of Java
1.Java SE 5:
1.Java 5 Until (& incl.) update 22 => “PUBLIC”
2.Java 5 update 23 & up => “RESTRICTED”
3.Java 5 (all update) where build >30 => “RESTRICTED”
2.Java SE 6:
1.Java 6 Until (& incl.) update 45 => “PUBLIC”
2.Java 6 update 51 & up => “RESTRICTED”
3.Java 6 (all update) where build >30 => “RESTRICTED”
3.Java SE 7:
1.Java 7 Until (& incl.) update 79 => “PUBLIC”
2.Java 7 update 80 & up => “RESTRICTED”
3.Java 7 (all update) where build >30 => “RESTRICTED”
4.Java SE 8:
1.Java 8 Until (& incl.) update 202 => “PUBLIC”
2.Java 8 update 211 & up=> “Restricted” (License change – 16/04/2019)
3.Java 8 (all update) where build >30 => “RESTRICTED”
5.Java SE 9 / 10
1.Java 9 & 10 => Public
2.Java 9 & 10 (all update) where build >30 => “RESTRICTED”
6.Java 11
1.Java 11 Until (&incl.) update 2 => Public
2.Java 11 update 3 => “RESTRICTED”
7.Java 12 and more => “Restricted” (Licensing modification – 16/04/2019)
