We have a couple vendors whose license model is a user license tied to an individual, and for which we are not able to reassign that license. For example if we assign 20 licenses to users, then 10 users leave the company and 5 new users join, we have to purchase 5 additional licenses, as those 10 are unable to be re-used. Our ideal solution is to either switch vendors or get the vendor to change license models, but if we're unable to do that, we're unsure of the best way to handle this in FNMS. Our thought it to create a Named User license and manually allocate/unallocated the users, but we're not sure how to reduce the entitlement when a user is unallocated. ... View more

Hello, In general management of our server and client environments are completely segregated. We have separate provisioning processes, separate SCCM environments, separate procurement teams, etc. On the client side we started using FNMS to manage our client licenses about 2 years ago, and the server team is looking to begin managing licenses, as for the most part that task has been neglected in the server environment. We are trying to get some input as to how others have these duties organized, and have the following questions: Is there one centralized/dedicated team or is it the responsibility of individual app support groups to manage licenses for their applications? Does a single team manage both client and server licenses? If there is a central dedicated team, how many resources are required to handle that task? (I realize this is dependent upon the size of the environment/number of applications. For reference we have around 60,000 clients and 8000 servers) If you have any other feedback not covered in the questions above, it would be appreciated. Thanks! ... View more