Yes, but then you have to explain all of that to the people looking at the dashboards, and that conversation doesn't always translate to their liking.  If the goal of the metric is to truly measure what is covered by a license, then the metric should be adjusted to reflect that. ... View more

I see a few issues with the proposed solution: 1) The Unlicensed/Licensed metric on the dashboard uses these number to assess your total coverage picture, which is inaccurate when you are looking at applications with custom metrics that will not 'consume' as an install should; 2) when you are working with a publisher that is mostly custom metrics and you have approximately 100 licenses for a single publisher, then creating one license set to device or user, to get that consumption registered, is not what i would consider best practice - nor would creating another hundred; 3) the only way to get these removed from the list is to trigger the consumption of the install or ignore the application - the latter is really not acceptable.  I don't even know if Deferring the application would work - maybe worth a try.  Perhaps an additional status that would omit from the Dashboard metric could be an option? ... View more

Did you ever come to a conclusion on this? I am encountering the same issue. ... View more

If you set the Required evidence to Ignored, that should resolve your issue. ... View more

We are being asked to report on all of our purchases and grouping them by software title (Item Description) and representing that in a dashboard is impossible because you can't really group them, other than by SKU.  But even that would be too large a dataset to represent well.  We are looking for a Product Name or Product Family that can be derived from the SKU and then tied to the SoftwareTitleInfo table to pull that Product Name. Does that make sense? ... View more

Hey Chris, We are trying to create a report from our All Purchases and normalize the data for Power BI reporting to reflect a Product Name vs. the Item Description, if the SKU matches an entry in FNMS.  I know the data is encrypted, but is there any way to correlate the purchase part no to the Product name found in the SoftwareTitleInfo table?  Appreciate your help. Anne ... View more

We also created an adapter for this,  The Red Hat team created a daily export that we pull down to our server using PowerShell.  The adapter then reads that file and allocates it to the license daily.  Then i built a SQL View that demonstrates where the two sources do not agree.  The first step though is getting that extract from Satellite.  The rest is cake. ... View more

I would love to see your report for file evidence 🙂 ... View more