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Mantautas · ‎Apr 01, 2020

Dear Manuela, I was wondering if you could give several examples from the naming conventions your have provided. Can you send several examples with any random Publisher / Product ? Thanks Mantautas.

Mantautas · ‎Dec 17, 2019

Dear Community members, I am looking for best practices how to implement a naming convention standard for license name. Please share your experience. My goal is to standardize all license to be named in the same convention, to have consistency in FNMS. Is licensing convention names are governed by ISO standard ? Examples: Publisher name Product Name - Type - Metric (Microsoft Visio Professional - Perpetual - Device) Publisher Name Product Name - Version - Metric (Microsoft SQL Server - 2017 - Processor) etc... Thank you, Mantautas.

Mantautas · ‎Sep 16, 2019

Dear Community members, Would you please share your experience how you categorize Publishers and how far you go with establishing ELPs for them. For big enterprise companies its normal to have 300, 400 or more Commercial Publishers that FNMS would discover. The questions from my side would be: 1. How far you go on preparing ELPs for Publishers? is the goal - to have ELPs for ALL Commercial Publishers that FNMS discovers? 2. How do you categorize your Publishers? By Spend? For example Tier1 (Top10), Tier2 (Top50), etc ? 3. What is better for matured SAM practice: Having less ELPs in FNMS but better quality and processes established, or try complete all available Publishers but have less quality ? Thanks for you opinion and experience, Mantautas Daunys Lead Consultant.

Mantautas · ‎May 15, 2019

Hello, Within our FNMS we have configured multiple top Publishers, and our stakeholders are looking forward to receive various reports on purchased licenses, consumption, type of license, etc. We restrict access to FNMS for this moment just to SAM and Security folks, so we would rather at the moment provide static Excel reports. However, I know FNMS has possibility to report Dashboards based on COGNOS. I was wondering if anyone on this community tried COGNOS, and I would have several questions: 1. Do you have success stories of SAM Stakeholders accessing COGNOS Dashboards/Reports for their reporting needs? 2. Is there any practice/user guide available to start building reports on COGNOS ? 3. Do you need to know Database structure / hierarchies to be able to build simple reports on COGNOS ? Regards, Mantautas. Software Asset Management Lead Consultant.

Mantautas · ‎May 01, 2019

Dear Chris, Thank for your view. You wrote that SCCM gathers more comprehensive usage data than FNMS agent on its own? My impression was it is opposite. Can you please give some quick examples on "More comprehensive usage" ? Do you talk about Software metering ? Thanks a lot

Mantautas · ‎Apr 30, 2019

Hello SAM professionals, I would like to ask about FNMS and SCCM integration advantages. We are big enterprise with aprox 14k active servers and 56k active desktops in our environment. Our FNMS is on SaaS. FNMS Agents are deployed both on workstations (Windows/MAC) and servers (Windows/Linux). It is a part of our standard image and our coverage looks good. During implementation project we have both: SCCM integration(Inventory data) and FNMS Agents inventory data feeding system. AppBroker/AppPortal is not used. And, indeed, overlapping inventory is merged for SCCM feed. My question to the community is: what is the value and benefits of keeping SCCM integration? If we turn this data input OFF - are the any risks or disadvantages for data in FNMS ? Thank you, Mantautas Daunys SAM Consultant.

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Re: Naming conventions for licences

Naming conventions for licences

Categorizing Publishers and scope of ELPs

Reporting on COGNOS

Re: SCCM integration with FNMS: pros/cons