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Resnofendri
Flexera
Feb 22, 2021
11:47 AM
1 Kudo
Hi @tertiusd,
Unfortunately, support for SAML 2.0 compatibility for Data Platform is still not planned today.
At this point, we're focusing on that support for our cloud-based solution, Flexera One platform.
If you believe this support should be added into our on-prem Data Platform solution, I'd suggest you post this on the Idea Portal. It will give higher visibility where other users can vote the idea so that product management can consider it for future enhancement.
Thanks,
Resno
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Feb 16, 2021
04:16 PM
4 Kudos
This is the 2nd UPDATE to the Class 1 Content Change Notification - Technopedia and ARL Eligibility and Coverage Updates published on December 23, 2020 posted here.
The 1st UPDATE (posted here) has been completed with removal of the initial set of ARL applications took place as part of the January 24 ARL release.
This 2nd UPDATE proposes the next set of ARL applications to be cleaned up and deleted (see the attached list). Evidence linked to these applications will be marked "Ignored" in the ARL. We plan to begin removal of these applications as part of the February 26 ARL release.
We will be publishing additional cleanup lists and schedules as this activity continues.
As a reminder, you can find the updated Technopedia Software Eligibility knowledge base document in this KB Article.
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Feb 12, 2021
04:58 PM
1 Kudo
Data Platform's User Console is built upon Pentaho’s Business Intelligence platform. It has a built-in capability to schedule reports generation along with the option to email them to users within the organization.
We have just posted the detail instructions on how to use the scheduler in the following documentation: Data Platform 5.5.x Report Scheduler in User Console.
This document can be found in Product Documentation section of Data Platform.
Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions!
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Feb 12, 2021
02:28 PM
1 Kudo
Data Platform introduced folders management capability in User Console with the 5.5.36 update (end of December 2020).
This capability allows users to organize reports in folders, which includes:
create and customize folders and/or sub-folders
pin/unpin reports into folders and/or sub-folders
sort reports within the folders, including manual sorting
share and/or set permissions on the folders across users in the organization
customize the home page to show any reports of choice
Please find the details in this documentation: Data Platform 5.5.36 Folders Management for User Console Reports.
You can find it in the Product Documentation section of Data Platform.
Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions!
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Feb 09, 2021
08:01 PM
4 Kudos
Hi Karyn,
I received your email and will reply with the list of records which are planned 'To be deleted'.
We'll also also include as part of the process to email you the detail changes for any future major crosswalk changes.
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Feb 09, 2021
12:56 PM
1 Kudo
Change Title
Major Changes in Technopedia - ARL Crosswalk
Class 1
Customers should be prepared and take action
Change Summary
The Technopedia – ARL Crosswalk provides a means to associate Technopedia software products and/or releases to ARL applications for joint Data Platform and FNMS customers.
The original crosswalk was based on analyzing title-to-title comparisons. We have enhanced the crosswalk methodology to link titles based on the underlying evidence, providing a higher quality of match.
We plan to deploy the first set of these changes beginning March 8, 2021.
Impact
These changes will impact all customers who use both Data Platform and FNMS and take advantage of either the crosswalk table in Data Platform or the crosswalk report in FNMS.
The crosswalk table in Data Platform (CAT_FLEXERA_ARL) will see the following changes:
Crosswalk records today: 230,713
Crosswalk records will be marked ‘To be deleted’: 30,171
Inaccurate crosswalk: 13,340
Crosswalk to product-level only: 12,535
Crosswalk on Tier 10 (Inactive) publishers: 4,296
Crosswalk records after March 8, 2021: 200,542
Evidence-based crosswalk: 74,112
Legacy crosswalk: 126,430
The crosswalk report in FNMS will see changes depending on how many titles in your inventory have crosswalk relationships to Technopedia.
Additional crosswalk table updates to enhance crosswalk relationships with evidence are planned in the near future.
Next Steps:
You should review the proposed changes and be prepared for potential impact in your inventory.
Several additional releases will be announced in the future with a minimum of ten business days notice, linked to this original announcement.
We will not publish the list of actual records above in the Community Portal. If you are entitled to the crosswalk and would like to obtain the list, please contact us so we can arrange to have the list provided to you before the March 8, 2021 date.
We welcome your feedback on these changes!
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Feb 09, 2021
12:53 PM
5 Kudos
Change Title
Major Changes in Technopedia - ARL Crosswalk
Class 1
Customers should be prepared and take action
Change Summary
The Technopedia – ARL Crosswalk provides a means to associate Technopedia software products and/or releases to ARL applications for joint Data Platform and FNMS customers.
The original crosswalk was based on analyzing title-to-title comparisons. We have enhanced the crosswalk methodology to link titles based on the underlying evidence, providing a higher quality of match.
We plan to deploy the first set of these changes beginning March 8, 2021.
Impact
These changes will impact all customers who use both Data Platform and FNMS and take advantage of either the crosswalk table in Data Platform or the crosswalk report in FNMS.
The crosswalk table in Data Platform (CAT_FLEXERA_ARL) will see the following changes:
Crosswalk records today: 230,713
Crosswalk records will be marked ‘To be deleted’: 40,795
Inaccurate crosswalk: 23,962
Crosswalk to product-level only: 12,534
Crosswalk on Tier 10 (Inactive) publishers: 4,299
Crosswalk records after March 8, 2021: 200,542
Evidence-based crosswalk: 74,112
Legacy crosswalk: 126,430
The crosswalk report in FNMS will see changes depending on how many titles in your inventory have crosswalk relationships to Technopedia.
Additional crosswalk table updates to enhance crosswalk relationships with evidence are planned in the near future.
Next Steps:
You should review the proposed changes and be prepared for potential impact in your inventory.
Several additional releases will be announced in the future with a minimum of ten business days notice, linked to this original announcement.
We will not publish the list of actual records above in the Community Portal. If you are entitled to the crosswalk and would like to obtain the list, please contact us so we can arrange to have the list provided to you before the March 8, 2021 date.
We welcome your feedback on these changes!
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Jan 21, 2021
03:35 PM
6 Kudos
Hi @kfindlay !
In Technopedia, we have this notion of 'non- IT' verticals, essentially capturing hardware products (along with their categories) which are not necessarily the traditional 'IT' type hardware. We have 'Building and Facilities' vertical (things like elevator system, fire alarm, HVAC system, etc.), 'Banking and Financial' vertical (things like ATM machine, bank note and coin processor, teller assist device, etc.), and 'Medical and Healthcare' vertical (things like the CT-Scan machine, ECG device, patient monitor, etc.).
Those devices (along with their categories) are hidden from the majority of Technopedia users (the 'IT' vertical) and accessible only with a separate license. We're planning to open them up to all customers because there are cases where certain products may fall under both IT and non- IT verticals. Currently, we capture some of such products in IT vertical with a generic 'Unclassified' category. Opening those vertical- specific items to wider customers will allow us to assign more appropriate categories.
Going forward, all customers can see those products and categories (with proper identification to allow them to filter them out if they don't care for them). However, to request new curation (adding new products/models/categories) will require them to have a separate maintenance contract.
Hope that answers your question.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
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Jan 06, 2021
05:03 PM
2 Kudos
Vanessa @Devolutions ,
That's such an awesome offer! We'd love to take you up on that!
I'll reach out to you separately to schedule something so that we can walk you through our process to get you into our Trusted Supplier Program so that you can submit information on your products and SKU into our content libraries.
Thanks!
Resno
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Dec 18, 2020
02:58 PM
4 Kudos
Editorial notes: This is a crosspost from the original posts which can be found on Data Platform Blog or Software Vulnerability Management Blog.
Notes: this article is about a current event which is still highly evolving. We encourage customers to revisit as we update the article as things continue to change.
Recently, the world received notice of a far-reaching intrusion campaign, potentially affecting thousands of companies and organizations—some of which are government organizations. The malicious code, referred to as "SUNBURST", is aiming at heavily obfuscating its presence (Trojan Horse) to allow lateral movement further into the infrastructure and the gathering of data to be transferred to third-parties. Such a breach has far reaching consequences, requiring quick action and a sophisticated response to ensure that breached networks and systems become secure once again.
More details will still reach the surface in the weeks and months ahead, but so far, we know that certain updates of the SolarWinds Orion Platform, which is the current base for many further products like the SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, had been tainted to distribute a back door through a certain library. This library is usually an inconspicuous plugin used in the Orion Platform product, however, in this case it carried a malicious payload introduced through a so-called supply-chain attack.
Various teams across different Flexera solutions, namely Data Platform (DP) and Software Vulnerability Management (SVM), have been working overtime to ensure that our customers get immediate visibility on the impact of this and other vulnerabilities.
Data Platform and/or Technopedia
As of December 16, 2020, customers can expect to see:
all impacted SolarWinds products and/or releases are captured in Technopedia
any existing discovered data (a.k.a. evidence) that maps to the impacted products and/or release are recognized. Note that any new evidence that customers bring in their inventory may still need to go through the gap-fill process.
if the entitlement to InfoSec Content Pack is active:
impacted products will be identified
any CPE’s associated with the impacted products and/or releases are linked
up-to-date Secunia Advisory information linked to the available CPE’s is provided
In the future, customers can expect to see:
CVE references associated with the vulnerabilities. The publication is dependent upon review/approval by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). The CVE’s are currently in the ‘’reserved” status, Technopedia updates the CVE content on a daily basis.
threat intelligence associated with the advisory (as provided by Flexera’s Secunia Research)
The score associated with our security advisory today is lower than expected due to a missing CVE reference which we anticipate will be addressed shortly
IT Visibility
IT Visibility customers can expect to see any detected installations of impacted SolarWinds products and/or releases in their inventory, providing the evidence already exists in our recognition library. Any net new evidence may still need to go through the gap-fill process.
The capability to show the vulnerability information, however, is not currently available in IT Visibility. This is something that we’re actively working on to make available in the first half of 2021.
FlexNet Manager Suite (FNMS)
Similar to IT Visibility, FNMS customers can also expect to see SolarWinds applications which are potentially impacted by this attack. Given the fact that applications granularity in FNMS is captured only at the major.minor version, further investigation may be needed to identify the subset of installations in their inventory with the exact build and/or patch levels.
Software Vulnerability Management (SVM), including Software Vulnerability Research (SVR)
As of December 16, 2020, SVR customers can expect to see:
up-to-date Secunia Advisory which contains detail information on the vulnerabilities, including the solutions/patches and available CPEs
highlight of the Secunia Advisory as part of the 0-day (Zero Day) module
In the future, SVM customers can expect to see:
impacted software products and/or versions being detected in their inventory.
We are working to obtain the vulnerable products required to create file signatures. If you are aware of a customer that is impacted and is seeking detection, please have them submit a request through the normal software suggestion process which will help us to get the details necessary.
CVE’s associated with the vulnerabilities as they are being published by a trusted source (for example, the vendor SolarWinds or MITRE)
threat intelligence information associated with the vulnerabilities (as they are being released by our resources)
The score associated with our Secunia Advisory today is lower than expected due to a missing CVE reference which we anticipate will be addressed shortly
Appendix
List of impacted SolarWinds products and/or releases:
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor 2019.x
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor 2020.x
SolarWinds Orion Platform 2019.x
SolarWinds Orion Platform 2020.x
List of associated Secunia Advisories:
SA99447: SolarWinds Orion Platform / Network Performance Monitor Multiple Vulnerabilities
SA99535: SolarWinds N-Central / Multiple Vulnerabilities (not related to SUNBURST)
List of available, impacted CPEs:
cpe:/a:solarwinds:orion_network_performance_monitor:2019.4:hotfix2
cpe:/a:solarwinds:orion_platform:2019.4:-
cpe:/a:solarwinds:orion_platform:2020.2:-
cpe:/a:solarwinds:orion_platform:2020.2.1:-
List of associated CVEs:
(will be updated as soon as we received data from trusted resources. Please check back for any future updates.)
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Dec 17, 2020
05:13 PM
2 Kudos
Note: this article is about a current event which is still highly evolving. We encourage customers to revisit as we update the article as things continue to change.
Recently, the world received notice of a far-reaching intrusion campaign, potentially affecting thousands of companies and organizations—some of which are government organizations. The malicious code, referred to as "SUNBURST", is aiming at heavily obfuscating its presence (Trojan Horse) to allow lateral movement further into the infrastructure and the gathering of data to be transferred to third-parties. Such a breach has far reaching consequences, requiring quick action and a sophisticated response to ensure that breached networks and systems become secure once again.
More details will still reach the surface in the weeks and months ahead, but so far, we know that certain updates of the SolarWinds Orion Platform, which is the current base for many further products like the SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, had been tainted to distribute a back door through a certain library. This library is usually an inconspicuous plugin used in the Orion Platform product, however, in this case it carried a malicious payload introduced through a so-called supply-chain attack.
Various teams across different Flexera solutions, namely Data Platform (DP) and Software Vulnerability Management (SVM), have been working overtime to ensure that our customers get immediate visibility on the impact of this and other vulnerabilities.
Data Platform and/or Technopedia
As of December 16, 2020, customers can expect to see:
all impacted SolarWinds products and/or releases are captured in Technopedia
any existing discovered data (a.k.a. evidence) that maps to the impacted products and/or release are recognized. Note that any new evidence that customers bring in their inventory may still need to go through the gap-fill process.
if the entitlement to InfoSec Content Pack is active:
impacted products will be identified
any CPE’s associated with the impacted products and/or releases are linked
up-to-date Secunia Advisory information linked to the available CPE’s is provided
In the future, customers can expect to see:
CVE references associated with the vulnerabilities. The publication is dependent upon review/approval by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). The CVE’s are currently in the ‘’reserved” status, Technopedia updates the CVE content on a daily basis.
threat intelligence associated with the advisory (as provided by Flexera’s Secunia Research)
The score associated with our security advisory today is lower than expected due to a missing CVE reference which we anticipate will be addressed shortly
IT Visibility
IT Visibility customers can expect to see any detected installations of impacted SolarWinds products and/or releases in their inventory, providing the evidence already exists in our recognition library. Any net new evidence may still need to go through the gap-fill process.
The capability to show the vulnerability information, however, is not currently available in IT Visibility. This is something that we’re actively working on to make available in the first half of 2021.
FlexNet Manager Suite (FNMS)
Similar to IT Visibility, FNMS customers can also expect to see SolarWinds applications which are potentially impacted by this attack. Given the fact that applications granularity in FNMS is captured only at the major.minor version, further investigation may be needed to identify the subset of installations in their inventory with the exact build and/or patch levels.
Software Vulnerability Management (SVM), including Software Vulnerability Research (SVR)
As of December 16, 2020, SVR customers can expect to see:
up-to-date Secunia Advisory which contains detail information on the vulnerabilities, including the solutions/patches and available CPEs
highlight of the Secunia Advisory as part of the 0-day (Zero Day) module
In the future, SVM customers can expect to see:
impacted software products and/or versions being detected in their inventory.
We are working to obtain the vulnerable products required to create file signatures. If you are aware of a customer that is impacted and is seeking detection, please have them submit a request through the normal software suggestion process which will help us to get the details necessary.
CVE’s associated with the vulnerabilities as they are being published by a trusted source (for example, the vendor SolarWinds or MITRE)
threat intelligence information associated with the vulnerabilities (as they are being released by our resources)
The score associated with our Secunia Advisory today is lower than expected due to a missing CVE reference which we anticipate will be addressed shortly
Appendix
List of impacted SolarWinds products and/or releases:
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor 2019.x
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor 2020.x
SolarWinds Orion Platform 2019.x
SolarWinds Orion Platform 2020.x
List of associated Secunia Advisories:
SA99447: SolarWinds Orion Platform / Network Performance Monitor Multiple Vulnerabilities
SA99535: SolarWinds N-Central / Multiple Vulnerabilities (not related to SUNBURST)
List of available, impacted CPEs:
cpe:/a:solarwinds:orion_network_performance_monitor:2019.4:hotfix2
cpe:/a:solarwinds:orion_platform:2019.4:-
cpe:/a:solarwinds:orion_platform:2020.2:-
cpe:/a:solarwinds:orion_platform:2020.2.1:-
List of associated CVEs:
(will be updated as soon as we received data from trusted resources. Please check back for any future updates.)
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Dec 15, 2020
12:25 PM
1 Kudo
We just pushed an update to IT Visibility which provides full visibility on all active hardware instances that were brought into the inventory. Users can now see these instances, regardless of whether they are 'normalized' (i.e. mapped to Technopedia) or not.
This information is presented in the Hardware dashboard via three different visualizations:
a new Hardware count on the left-hand side pane showing total count of all active instances
a new Hardware pie chart in the bottom half of the main pane showing the breakdown of normalized vs. unnormalized instances
a new drill-down Hardware report -- can be brought up by clicking either the Hardware count, the Hardware chart's title, or the Hardware chart's slices -- which allows user to see all the instances, filtered by the normalization Status, Category/Subcategory, Manufacturer, Product, and Model
This is a first step in the wider effort of providing full visibility and transparency into hardware normalization process in IT Visibility.
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Dec 14, 2020
11:57 AM
1 Kudo
@mbleau,
What @DSood1 mentioned above is correct. We have retired public access via that URL several years ago. Only customers/partners are granted access to Technopedia.
If you don't have direct access to either the Data Platform's User Console or Technopedia v1.1 API, we may be able to provide you an intermediary solution until we have the proper solution to replace the old Technopedia lookup.
I will reach out to you offline to understand your use-cases and work on the intermediary access.
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Nov 23, 2020
09:59 AM
1 Kudo
@MAFelder, Technopedia categorization (i.e. taxonomy) is a Flexera's own IP, the background/historical creation of which was highlighted in the blog article mentioned by @JohnSorensenDK above (note that this blog is 8 years old, so some information in there may be outdated). It takes reference from various established taxonomy systems, while at the same time, curated to fit the needs of Flexera customers so that over time, it has dynamically evolved in terms of granularity, breadth and depth.
The process of assigning categories to a product in Technopedia involves an extensive research to understand the function of the product based on artifacts found on the vendor's official publication, taking into consideration how the vendor wishes to position the product in the market. It also involves research on how the industry categorizes the product (how established, trusted industry review or analyst websites categorize the product). Further comparison with similar/competing products is also being considered, before the decision as to which category fits the product the best is ultimately decided by Flexera content team.
There are cases where none of the existing categories in Technopedia taxonomy fit the product nicely, therefore, a process to expand the taxonomy to add new categories may be involved. It goes through due diligence process, working together with various customers, and sometimes directly with the vendor, making sure Technopedia has enough critical mass to create the new category. Finally, any changes to the taxonomy system will be announced in our Community Portal as part of the Content Release Checklist to afford customers an advanced notification so they're prepared with any potential impact on their system.
To answer your question, RE: TOGAF and FEA, there is currently no direct one-to-one reference between Flexera's taxonomy system with those established sources. We do have a category-level mapping with UNSPSC category (to accommodate our ARL library, which is being used by our FlexNet Manager solution). @JohnSorensenDK did mention a method to bring those categories into Data Platform via mash-up, however, that is assuming you have your inventory data (i.e. products) already categorized according to those system. From your question (and further comment), that doesn't seem to be the case, therefore not something that I would recommend. Additionally, any mention of or potentially bringing this into IT Visibility via contextualization process is premature at best, so I would rule out this recommendation for now.
@MAFelder, I would like to explore further how you (and your organization) uses TOGAF, FEA or any other established Taxonomy system out there alongside Technopedia taxonomy. If this is something that majority of our customers would be interested in having supported by Technopedia, we'd be very open to see how we fit this into our future direction. Would you be willing to get in a quick call to discuss this topic and see how we can benefit from understanding your use-cases?
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Nov 16, 2020
09:30 AM
2 Kudos
Hello!
Just adding this information here, might be of interest to pursue. Technopedia has a content pack called 'Hardware Specifications Content Pack' which contains enrichment data on power consumption, environmental factors (temperature, humidity, heat dissipation) as well as electricity factors (voltage, amperage, etc.) associated with the normalized hardware models. The data comes from research conducted by our content team (not a discovery result).
The question now is on how to make this data available in FNMS (it is currently only available in Data Platform). We may want to bring hardware data from FNMS into Data Platform to be normalized, and then export it back into FNMS (along with the hardware specifications) using custom fields as mentioned by @mfranz above.
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