New Features Added to IT Asset Management in August 2024

AamerSharif · ‎Oct 11, 2024

Flexera One IT Asset Management August 2024 update includes the following new features and updates.

Note: For detailed information on these new features and updates, see the What's New in Flexera One / August 2024.

New Features

Automatic upgrade and the ability to download the FlexNet Inventory Agent for Debian-based Linux distributions

From this release, you can choose to enable or disable automatic upgrade and also download the FlexNet Inventory Agent for Debian-based Linux distributions. This is similar to upgrades and installations of the FlexNet Inventory Agent for other selected operating systems on the Inventory Settings page in IT Asset Management.

Note: For FlexNet Inventory Agent version 22.2.0, the first upgrade of a Debian environment still needs to be done manually. Subsequent Debian-based automatic upgrades will ensue following the first manual upgrade.

Simplified FlexNet Inventory Agent configuration using flxconfig

From version 22.2.0 and later, the FlexNet Inventory Agent has been updated with a new component called flxconfig to handle agent configuration. flxconfig is a simplified implementation of agent configuration that allows for greater security, and replaces the existing mgspolicy and ndlaunch components.

Note: If you choose to upgrade to FlexNet Inventory Agent version 22.2.0 and later, you MUST also upgrade your FlexNet Beacon to version 22.2.0 and later. FlexNet Inventory Agent versions 22.1.0 and older will continue to work with FlexNet Beacon versions 22.2.0 and later.

New Application Installation Details with Usage Sessions report

The Application Installation Details with Usage Sessions report, lists application installations along with details of the inventory device they were discovered on, and is near identical to the Application Installation Details report, with two key differences:

An extra column titled Usage sessions, which reports on the number of sessions in which the application was run in the selected reporting period.
A mandatory filter from which you need to select a publisher.

Increased security for downloading the FlexNet Inventory Agent

From this release onwards, the self upgrade packages will be delivered with digital signatures to verify integrity and ownership. The purpose of this change is to provide enhanced security measures for data obtained by an agent for inventory or upgrade purposes.

The FlexNet Inventory Agent will only download and install upgrade packages from the FlexNet Beacon where the digital signature can be successfully verified.

Note: If you choose to upgrade to FlexNet Inventory Agent version 22.2.0 and later, you MUST also upgrade your FlexNet Beacon to version 22.2.0 and later. This relates to the replacement of the old agent policy with the new flxconfig component to handle agent configuration. The new agent configuration allows for greater security, and replaces the existing mgspolicy and ndlaunch components.

Changes from previous releases

For the full lists, see Prerequisite Software and Compatibility with Other Products in System Requirements and Compatibility.

We love to hear about your experiences, so let us know how things go with these updates by posting a comment here or in the Flexera One forum Of course, the friendly Flexera Support team is also always standing by to take your call.

Thanks for being a partner of Flexera on this journey.