I'm excited to announce that Flexnet Manager Suite 2020 R2 for our On-Premise customers is just around the corner, in this article I'll be summarising the key updates included in this release.
The 2020 R2 release is already available in FNMS Cloud and will be available to On-Premises customers on December 10th 2020.
This latest release includes a number of major features as well as several key changes:
As one of the leading alternatives to ILMT, our commitment to keeping current with key IBM changes remains strong and so we are pleased to introduce support for IBM Cloud Paks which is a new approach to licensing IBM applications based on Products and Virtual Processor Cores (VPCs).
For more details you can either view the features by release page or view the dedicated blog on this topic - Cloud Paks blog.
We have improved the accuracy of the inventory we collect for DB2 Editions by modifying the FlexNet Inventory Agent to use the db2licm utility as recommended by IBM auditors. This will increase the trust level in the installed edition for IBM DB2 installations in FNMS.
In addition, we have also added the ability to view the DB2 options are installed on these DB2 editions and display whether these options are Used or not; this allows you to identify candidates for optimization by uninstalling the options which are not Used and this will in turn mean these no longer require licensing.
For more details you can either view the features by release page or view the dedicated blog on this topic - DB2 Editions and Options blog
The Restrictions tab has now been extended to the User license type. For these licenses, group assignments of the user are checked, rather than group assignments of the inventory device. The user may be:
*As always, an inventory device for which there is no user record also counts as consuming an entitlement from a User license, and in this rare case, the group assignment of the device is still relevant.
For more details you can view the features by release page - User License Restrictions feature page
If your enterprise makes use of either Citrix virtual applications or Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) or both, four new reports in this release help provide you visibility into the raw inventory coming from those connections. These reports are called:
For more details you can view the features by release page - Citrix Transparency Feature page
A new management view available in the Discovery & Inventory menu lets you investigate how and why overlapping inventory records from multiple different inventory sources were matched and merged into the inventory device records in your compliance database, making the devices visible (for example) in the All Inventory page.
This view provides inventory device properties, inventory device matching rules (set of inventory device properties) used to match devices to one inventory device, and RAW inventory device properties to provide a complete picture of how overlapping devices are merged into one inventory device that a user sees in the WebUI.
For more details you can either view the features by release page or view the dedicated blog on this topic - Inventory Device Matching transparency blog
In our new Analytics update for 2020 R2 there are 3 major updates:
Key updates on our major integrations:
These agent updates and more are covered on the Agent Change Log
JQuery component updated to the latest version - JQuery Feature Page
Scanning of Malicious Content - Malicious Scanning feature page
For more information, the following pages will provide more details:
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