Hello @craig_moore , We have released with ITAM 2022R1.2 (and then with the just release on premise 2022R2 version) a "Windows Server  Flat" report. The report has been recreated to allow allocations from a Business Adapter Studio (this works very well), and also for an integration that directly calls the SOAP API (GetCustomViewReult). It has attributes that makes it available for the API call. You need the SavedSearchID of your report that support can provide you. You can imagine that an integration every day (before reconciliation) reads the data in the report and allocates all servers and VMs to the right Licenses. When it comes to Windows Server (and even more now that the "Per VM" licensing has been implemented) the recommendations (computer "by Host") is way less static and allocations will be more useful that Intelligent Restriction, for the "Standard vs. DataCenter" topic. However, the "CIS versus Windows Server" (that is maybe your true need) is a topic that is more static. The versions of the report released in March (that is using the 90 peaks) had the "Cluster level contamination" approach. as soon as SCCM/ System Center / End Point Management Client was found in a cluster, the full cluster had to be licensed. The "Number of SCCM VMs in Cluster (and proportion of VMs with SCCM) allow to make this determination. This "cluster level" assessment allows again to use an intelligent restriction that will use a more "static" criteria. Note that with the new "per VM" licensing managed by the latest report, the "contamination" (when using "90 peak /VM" new option) is computed at host level. For use of "intelligent restriction, I would use cluster level assessment. Hope it helps, Nicolas   ... View more

I have to editorialize about the erosion of the value prop of the relationship here.  The LISA licenses are pricey and are expected to be paid by individual versus the shared resources the practice guides previously represented.  Flexera's going to do what it's going to do, but I definitely feel the retreat from Flexera offering foundational knowledge to its practitioner community. Sigh...... David ... View more

A side note to this topic... most organizations running SQL Server on Amazon RDS may be able to skip connecting it to FNMS based on the simple principle that Amazon RDS ALWAYS includes the license for SQL Server. So unless you need to license another product (not SQL Server) based on its database usage in RDS, there is no compliance risk to having SQL Server running in RDS. Oracle Database on RDS is still sold in BYOL configuration, so Flexera connection to RDS is still important if on-prem Oracle db licenses are being moved to RDS. ... View more

@anhpham1652 it sounds like the beacon isn't reaching the IP.  We had a similar situation even though we had the firewall opened.  In the end, the only way we solved this was to install a beacon on a VM in that vCenter itself, and run the discovery rule from that beacon (by assigning the subnet to that beacon).   ... View more

@craig_moore - this will work as long as the certificates used are appropriately trusted. Commercial certificates will typically be broadly trusted by your computers, and your internal certificate management team would be able to confirm which computers will trust certificates that are internally issued. ... View more

Just to update on the issue that computers where still on screen... and it resonates with multiple customer situations I have seen: there was a duplicated inventory source (the beacon reading inventory data from the FNMS Inventory database) and this was causing sticky data. Technically, if a beacon (or any inventory source) imports data into FNMS, it will create a "ComplianceConnectionID". If you have old connection or duplivcated ones, you may get incredibly painful "merging" issues with old evidences causing false positives... check on https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Inventory-Gap-Analysis-custom-reports-VMs-from-vCenter-Oracle/ta-p/211848 for the "merged devices" report. To delete a connection, go to admin/Data Input (first screenshot), Inventory imports, open the detail, delete the connection (second screenshot).           ... View more

Hello. Does anyone have experience with creating a license for JavaSE using the Named User Plus metric? How does consumption behave for instances of commercial JRE installed on workstations? Is consumption based on the quantities of installations, or does consumption factor in separate user accounts on the workstation? ... View more