FlexNet Manager Suite On-Premises 2024 R1

jborchers · ‎Jul 15, 2024

FlexNet Manager Suite On-Premises 2024 R1

We are pleased to announce that the 2024 R1 on-premises version of FlexNet Manager Suite will be available this week.
This article briefly highlights the new features, enhancements and refers to further documentation.

New Features

Item	Description
View software SKUs with the new SKU Browser	The SKU Browser displays any software SKU which is recognized and populated in the FlexNet Manager Suite SKU library. On accessing the SKU Browser, you can enter a SKU number and browse publishers, applications and their extended descriptions. You can also search by publisher and product to return a list of SKUs along with additional information to help you choose the most relevant option. The new SKU Browser is a great source of SKU information available at your fingertips, and will help to reduce time and effort when creating purchase orders.
OpenShift: The Kubernetes agent has been enhanced to provide discovery and visibility of Red Hat OpenShift operators The Kubernetes Inventory Agent recognizes accurate worker node inventory for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters	In this release, the Kubernetes agent can now recognize worker node inventory in a Kubernetes cluster for Red Hat OpenShift. It is collecting inventory data for the actual worker node that the Kubernetes container was deployed to. This enhancement is supported by the Standard Flexera Kubernetes Inventory Agent (often referred to as the "full" Flexera Kubernetes Inventory Agent), and the Lightweight Kubernetes Inventory Agent. Installer evidence will be updated to reflect new inventory, and inventory that is no longer present will be removed each and every time the Flexera Kubernetes Inventory Agent collects inventory from a Kubernetes cluster(s) in your environment.
The Kubernetes Inventory Agent can now recognize KubeVirt virtual machines installed on a worker node in a Kubernetes cluster	The Flexera Kubernetes Inventory Agent has been further enhanced to now recognize KubeVirt virtual machines installed on a worker node in a Kubernetes cluster. KubeVirt is a Kubernetes extension that allows running traditional virtual machine workloads natively side by side with container workloads. Prior to this enhancement, only virtual machine inventory data pertaining to the Kubernetes container was collected by the Flexera Kubernetes Inventory Agent and viewable on the All Containers page in FlexNet Manager Suite. From this release onwards, inventory data is now collected for KubeVirt virtual machines installed on the actual worker node that the Kubernetes container is deployed to.
The Kubernetes Inventory Agent now supports deployment of Helm chart templates	The Flexera Kubernetes Inventory Agent now supports predefined out-of-the-box Kubernetes Helm chart templates. For Flexera customers who use Helm charts, this new functionality will help to accelerate the deployment of the Flexera Kubernetes Inventory Agent to your Kubernetes clusters.
IBM Cloud Pak: New functionality added for IBM licensing capabilities for container environments	FlexNet Manager Suite now supports two new additional IBM license metric types: Resource Unit (RU) and Managed Virtual Server (MVS). With the support of these additional license metric types, IBM RU licenses and IBM MVS licenses can now be created in FlexNet Manager Suite for the following Cloud Paks: IBM Cloud Pak for network automation, IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps, and IBM Cloud Pak for security. For each day that IBM products or Cloud Paks run in each Kubernetes cluster in your environment, either the Flexera Kubernetes inventory agent or the lightweight Kubernetes agent collects consumption information as evidence from the IBM License Service. FlexNet Manager Suite normalizes the data from the IBM License Service, and recognizes the Cloud Paks and bundled products they contain, as well as any stand-alone IBM products.
Microsoft Intune Adapter supports MAC OS	The Microsoft Intune Adapter now supports the collection of MAC OS device information from Microsoft Intune. On using the Microsoft Intune adapter, MAC OS device information collected from Microsoft Intune is imported into FlexNet Manager Suite, giving you visibility of your MAC OS managed devices in your Microsoft Intune estate and subsequently used to calculate license consumption.
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) verification data can now be added to the Oracle GLAS evidence archive Choose to disable or enable the EBS data collection by using the Enable collection of Oracle EBS audit data	The FlexNet Inventory Agent capabilities have been extended to allow for importing Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) data into the Oracle GLAS evidence archive. For EBS verification, Oracle requires that your report includes key information pertaining to the installation, configuration, and usage of Oracle EBS products, their components, and features. Imported EBS data can be used to verify that your Oracle EBS implementation, whether you have created custom features, and the like, is compliant in an Oracle audit conducted by Oracle Global Licensing and Advisory Services (GLAS). When the new Include Oracle E-Business Suite check box is selected, additional EBS verification data is added to the OracleGLASEvidence.zip archive, ready for submission to be audited when required. You can also choose to disable or enable the EBS data collection. It is disabled by default.

Enhancements

Item	Description
VMWare Inventory page: New columns added	The VMware Inventory page lists VMware vSphere and vCenter application inventory detected in your organization. As per recent VMware licensing changes (VMware now only offers core-based subscription based licensing), four new columns have been added to provide relevant insights into the new licensing model and to better track ESXi machines and vCenters that are no longer reporting.
IBM sub-capacity reports are now scoped to location and business entity	IBM sub-capacity reports are now scoped to a business entity with the peak consumption contributed by the hosts in that location/entity. Prior to this enhancement, when running any of the IBM sub capacity audit reports, the totals for the license consumption did not apply to user scoping, and the overall peak value for each license for all resources in all locations were reported on. For example, if you were restricted to the EU region you would still see the global license in the report.
Flexera Analytics upgraded to version 11.2.4 FP3	Flexera Analytics has been upgraded to Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 FP3. For a complete list of new and changed features introduced in Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 FP3, please see the Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 FP3 release notes in the IBM Help Documentation.
New support for Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) on the Flexera Kubernetes inventory agent	From this release, OLM is also supported on the Flexera Kubernetes Inventory Agent. With this new feature, customers can now leverage OLM's capabilities, such as streamlined deployment, simplified management, and automated operations, while using the Flexera Kubernetes Inventory Agent.
New fields added to the Purchase Order Upload Standard template	Five more fields have been added to the Purchase Order Upload Standard template to provide additional information for tracking purchase data. This new information will help identify who authorized the purchase order, processed it, requested it, the requested date and associated request number.
RPM packages for Linux architectures are now signed using SHA-2 algorithm	The RPM packages for various Linux architectures supported by the FlexNet Inventory Agent are now signed using a SHA-2 algorithm. An updated public key is required which can be downloaded from the PLC. In addition to this change, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are no longer supported as they do not support SHA-2 signing algorithms.

FarrukhNaz · ‎Jul 16, 2024

Great! glad to see Flexera is now paying attention to Kubernetes Agent for Openshift discovery and inventory.

samirdivan · ‎Jul 16, 2024

Hay, can someone comment here once new release is available for download ? I am just admin and not getting authority to download new release... I just wanted to be updated in case its available..

Big_Kev · ‎Jul 16, 2024

Hi @samirdivan

I can confirm for now the package of 2024 R1 is not yet in the product and download center...

Hope Flexera can address this soon.

Cheers

Kev

samirdivan · ‎Jul 16, 2024

@Big_Kev Thanks for the update

dbeckner · ‎Jul 16, 2024

FNM 2024 R1 is now available in the Product and License Center.

SinghJ · ‎Jul 24, 2024

We are updating it for one of our client... Any one install it till now ? anyone has seen any issues ?

russellwood · ‎Jul 25, 2024

Hi, I had an issue with my installation, the web.config had a setting that wasn't updated to the correct version of a DLL. The old DLL is removed and replaced with the new one. It will show itself as an configuration error with web.config error from the browser.

If you do hit that then just do the following:

To get the correct information run the following in Powershell just replacing the drive where your file resides

([system.reflection.assembly]::loadfile("F:/Program Files (x86)/Flexera Software/FlexNet Manager Platform/WebUI/bin/DevExpress.Web.Mvc5.v23.1.DLL")).FullName

That will return the correct info which should be replaced in the new web.config overwriting the data for the v15.

mrasch · ‎Jul 25, 2024

@russellwood

Thanks for sharing. Can confirm that your solution works.

KR

Max

russellwood · ‎Jul 25, 2024

Hi Max, Yes - once I changed the web.config from the v15 config to v23 it was all good. Haven't noticed any other issues.

SinghJ · ‎Jul 26, 2024

Thanks all.. we did not get any such error. However we saw some issues but its successful after few basic T/S ..

Regards