We’re excited to announce the immediate availability of the latest patch release 5.5.56 for Data Platform 2022 (shipped on the last day of August 2022).   This release contains several new enhancements: the ability to automatically retrieve and import SSL certificates into the local certificate store, when needed updated documentation which includes description for cubes, categories, and fields in User Console (can be found here) Out of Date Versions report now also provides major releases behind   We also addressed the issue with exporting large data sets in CSV and Excel format in User Console. You can click the in-product banner/notification on the Admin Console to get to this update (after a Technopedia sync). Details on 5.5.56 Patch (August 2022) can be found in the  release notes  posted in the  documentation section  of Data Platform. ... View more

The latest monthly patch for Data Platform, 5.5.55, is available as of the end of July 2022.   This release brings in the following enhancement: a check box under Preferences in Admin Console to enable or disable the proxy server when an import is run for ServiceNow and Casper data sources.   This release also provides several bug fixes which includes: an issue of displaying "0" in Normalized CPU speed field In ServiceNow when CPU speed is empty. an issue with test connection hanging with Simple Mashup. an issue with Normalize failing with this error “The referenced entity 'BDNA20220330014_GR' was modified during DDL execution. Please retry the operation.” a “Cannot Load Tapi” error when running Data Platform config wizard after upgrading to 5.5.53. an issue with patch upgrade from 5.5.53 to 5.5.54 failing with this error “Could not find stored procedure 'DROP VIEW DIM_N_SYSTEM_V'. Cannot alter 'DIM_N_SYSTEM_V' because it is not a table.” Details on 5.5.55 (July 2022) release can be found in the   release notes   posted in the   documentation section   of Data Platform. ... View more

With Flexera One Technopedia Public API generally available early this year, the work continues to bring various "enrichment packs" (aka "content packs") associated with products and releases that are captured in Technopedia. Two of the packs were part of the GA: Lifecycle and Support, Hardware Specifications. And now, we're excited to announce that another pack is now available in the API: Open Source Enrichment Pack.   Open Source Enrichment Pack allows Technopedia to drive various use-cases around open source by providing attributes to accurately identify whether a particular software application or component is open source, along with the type of restrictions associated with it. This enrichment, down the road, will facilitate the organizations' capability to better manage the composition of their software assets, depending on their appetite (or aversion) towards incorporating open source in their portfolio.   What makes this enrichment even more exciting is the fact that it is fully powered by the open source catalog coming from Flexera's very own subsidiary, Revenera's Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solution. Revenera's Code Insight is an industry-leading SCA solution that helps organizations manage their open source compliance and security needs, bringing in one of the largest  open source knowledge bases in the industry, with more ~18 million components.   Open Source Enrichment Pack is included as part of Technopedia Enrichment Pack subscription (available to all Flexera One IT Visibility customers as well as customers with Technopedia-only subscription). It is currently only accessible through the Flexera One Technopedia Public API (GraphQL). We're actively working to make it an integral part of IT Visibility's inventory data--via IT Visibility Dashboards as well as export capabilities--in the second half of this year.   Details on attributes that are available as part of this pack can be found in our Technopedia API datasets documentation (Open Source Enrichment attributes are captured in the following datasets: ScaOpenSource, componentLicenseData, versionLicenseData, keywordsData). ... View more

We’re excited to announce the immediate availability of the latest patch release 5.5.54 for Data Platform 2022 (shipped on the last day of June 2022).   This patch contains several improvements, including: Update to Pentaho Business Intelligence (8.3.0.26-1502), which delivers: Update to Log4J 2.17.1 Fix for vulnerabilities associated with CVE-2021-34684: Unauthenticated SQL Injection Fix for vulnerabilities associated with CVE-2021-44228 (and its variances, see this post) - Authenticated Remote Code Execution Enhanced the Normalize process to continue the ETL step even when the ServiceNow process fails   This patch also brings fixes on several issues, including: An issue where re-running the Configuration Wizard resulted in TAPI startup failure when SQL Server was in use and not installed locally An issue in Flexera User Console 2022 where one or new dependencies for Setup Wizard were missing, needing to be manually copied from Data Platform bin folder Issues where the publishing step would fail where one more processes with a non-numeric resource id were attached to a ServiceNow process An error where User Console reports failed to export in CSV or Excel format An issue in ETL behavior for ServiceNow integration which causes creation of duplicate OS An issue in ServiceNow Network Gear ETL which causes network devices not being recognized when they were not imported from cmdb_ci_netgear A minor issue with Admin Console where the link to the User Console for some Inventories was not clickable   You can click the in-product banner/notification on the Admin Console to get to this patch (after a Technopedia sync). Details on 5.5.54 (June 2022) patch release can be found in the release notes posted in the documentation section of Data Platform. ... View more

Back in March 2022, we announced the upcoming new market version of Data Platform. After working diligently in the past couple of months, and though with a slight delay due to additional works on the documentation, we are really excited to finally announce that the new Data Platform 2022 is now Generally Available!     A visual of "About" screen after deployment Data Platform 2022 packages cumulative updates from prior Data Platform 5.5.x releases (up to 5.5.52 patch release) in a simple full installer that will be straightforward for most of our customers to deploy. Customers who are far behind on Data Platform 5.5.x patch version and have been holding off with upgrading to the latest version should seize this as the perfect opportunity to upgrade.   Some of the highlights the cumulative new features that Data Platform 2022 brings include: Instant reports in User Console: pre-populated reporting for quick delivery of data insights toward common strategic initiatives A visual of Instant Report Support for certificate authentication: standardized infrastructure support for highly secure organizations including the implementation of CAC (Common Access Card) A visual of Certificate Authentication setting Reports management in User Console using multi-level folders: organize your reports and set permissions for effective collaboration within the business A visual of Folders Management Enhanced mapping cube in User Console: improved transparency into normalization process for your data so you can troubleshoot and create private catalog items easier with increased visibility Standardized mashup: simplified wizard-driven process for improved experience with data mashup—point-and-click updates to contextualize your discovered inventory A visual of Data Mashup wizard Roll-up of open-source software (OSS) to operating system (OS) distro: increase efficiency and effectiveness by identifying OSS within the OS to roll up things like maintenance and support within the organization Optimized support for your top tools like BMC discovery and Helix, Tanium, BigFix, FNMS, and HPUD Additional performance enhancements to: Normalization Technopedia details page Catalog sync User Console experience Optimized compatibility with the Scoped App ServiceNow integration, covering native tables integration (including the lifecycle data), IRE compatibility, and the latest major improvement in transform processing time (the details of which can be found in this announcement)   Head on over to the Product and License Center to download the installer and read the Release Notes to find more about this release. You can also read the Solution Brief/Datasheet for overall information on Data Platform. Our Product Documentation page for Data Platform provides all the documents that you need to deploy this release, including Installation Guide, Admin Console as well as the User Console Guide. ... View more

We're happy to announce that after a slight delay, the latest monthly patch release for Data Platform, 5.5.52, is finally available as of May 5, 2022.   This release brings an upgrade to Tomcat version 9.0.62.0.   We also packaged fixes to address usability issues which include: viewing extractor config files in Admin Console saving a report in CSV format on Chrome OS   Additional fixes to address data integrity issues: duplicate OS in software installation table in ServiceNow Data Platform returning ServiceNow netgear mapping without class_name attribute   Finally, for customers on Oracle Database, we also fixed an issue you might have encountered  during patch upgrade due to invalid function name GET_BDNA_DATA_TYPE.   Details on this release can be found in the  release notes  posted in the  documentation section  of Data Platform. ... View more

UPDATE (2022-05-05, 9:00pm UTC): the patch is now available, please refer to this post for details   We usually release our monthly patch by the end of the month. By now, you would expect that our 5.5.2 patch (April 2022) should have been released. Unfortunately, a slight technical issue prevents us from releasing this on time. Our engineers are working diligently to solve the issue. We'll expect to get more clarity by the end of our Wednesday (May 4, 2022). This blog post will be updated as soon as we have any update. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. ... View more