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bmaudlin · ‎May 17, 2021

Ahh okay, so there is no need to remove the Unix based agent prior to upgrade, my understanding was the agent needed to be fully removed on Unix based OS prior to install, to then install the new agent. Is this not the case?

bmaudlin · ‎May 17, 2021

@durgeshsing - thanks for the update. Would this be the same process for the Unix based agents? Not 100% sure if there is an upgrade path for those agents. Ben

bmaudlin · ‎May 14, 2021

Hi Guys, I'm just trawling the documentation currently, however I thought it may be quicker to ask here. Our current agent v13.0.1 has gone out of normal support, and I am exploring options of how to upgrade this agent. Does v13.0.1 support an upgrade via a deployment from the inventory beacons to v16? Ben

bmaudlin · ‎May 06, 2021

Hi @mag00_75 , This has been raised under case: 02289676. I believe the changes should have been applied to one of the April ARL releases. I have chased this, to see if there is a further update from the content team.

bmaudlin · ‎Apr 26, 2021

Hi @rmiller1 , Thanks for the detail, so in our environment we have the agents configured to report into one location in rather than to report into any child inventory server. Ben

bmaudlin · ‎Apr 26, 2021

Hi @mfranz, I probably should have been more clear, I'm specifically really referring to Cloud based environments. Where there is the potential for short lived instances, and there is typically no other 3rd party data source to determine whether the instance is live. Such as vCenter. Ben

bmaudlin · ‎Apr 22, 2021

@kclausen - that's a great help thank you 🙂

bmaudlin · ‎Apr 22, 2021

Hi Guys, I have the requirement to inventory short live instances which maybe up for 4>6 hours however there is no guarantee these instances are terminated after this time. I have noticed in the following documentation, the agent can be configured to scan on start up and to check the instance is still live after a defined period > https://docs.flexera.com/fnms/EN/InvAdapConn/index.html#adapters/Azure/tasks/Azure-ScheduleInstance.html However it is not practical to ask platform teams to copy folders and files over to the instances, is there any guidance how we should be able to automate this process please ? Ben

bmaudlin · ‎Apr 20, 2021

How are we able to configure the agent to scan for .jar files on Linux installs?

bmaudlin · ‎Apr 20, 2021

Hi Guys, Is the current Linux agent able to scan for files on Linux that are installed not using RPM, so Jar instead for example?

bmaudlin · ‎Apr 07, 2021

Hi @altahobi, If you are unable to find the UAT org in the drop down, then it could be missing as part of the transition. (It was for us) If that is the case, it's just a call into Support to add your UAT tenant. Ben

bmaudlin · ‎Mar 29, 2021

Hi @kclausen Apologies probably bad terminology with 'calculate' I am aware that FNMS is only displaying the data retrieved from M365. Obviously in a large organisation such as mine access to Admin M365 is heavily restricted, and simply not going to happen for something like this. I guess there is no other way to fully understand what is happening? Ben

bmaudlin · ‎Mar 26, 2021

Hi @jq3i4h9u 👋 , So with the current connector, it pulls down purchased, consumed, allocated and used - as shown below and what I would ultimately expect. However it is typically SAM best practise to add the purchase history to the licence, which was really my question here if there was any way to do that without increasing the licence count. As if I add the purchase history to the licence then this is counted as additional licences. Which is not my end goal here. Ben

bmaudlin · ‎Mar 26, 2021

Hi Guys, 👋 Does anyone have any insight how FNMS calculates the M365 usage data via the default connector? The reason for the ask, is that we are looking to carry out a cleanup activity of our E3 licences and would be looking at FNMS to provide the underlying data for this. When I have checked my usage data, it is showing that I last accessed M365 Monday 22nd. Now potentially I put that down to that typically my device is left on. However when checking a number of colleagues that carry the full shutdown and start-up activity every day, they are also showing a last accessed M365 as of Monday 22nd. The M365 connector is run daily. Any thoughts would be appreciated:) Ben

bmaudlin · ‎Mar 25, 2021

Hi @mfranz . Okay understood - that was my thought that FNMS currently does not have the capability to carry out this activity. I'll have to ponder over some thoughts that I currently have. Ben

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