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shelby_day · ‎Jun 02, 2021

I understand peak consumption. I just wasn't clear on the way Flexnet was now "showing" this on the license overview page. I personally don't like it because at a glance I look and immediately think we have a problem. Now that I know the reasoning. All good! Thanks for responding to my question!

shelby_day · ‎Jun 01, 2021

I've noticed for IBM "All Licenses" view the "current consumption" is showing the PEAK consumption number and I have to click into each license to view the actual current consumption. Why did this change?

shelby_day · ‎May 27, 2021

What would cause product use rights to change? I'm referring specifically to "exemptions". I notice for some odd reason (and has nothing to do with Recommended License Changes), my exemptions for Device Role reverts back to default. I may for example exempt Development, Test, Disaster Recover and they revert back. I haven't paid special attention to when this happens, but wonder if this would be something that might "change" after an FNMS upgrade? That's all I can think of. Thanks

shelby_day · ‎Dec 16, 2020

This question is of an urgent nature and if anyone might be able to provide some guidance here I would greatly appreciate. I've tried to scan through the various info on Java but nothing is making sense to me. I am trying to get to a comprehensive list of Java within our environment which I believe I have successfully captured. What I cannot get to is correct versioning. This is happening in roughly half the records I'm pulling. Results are returning version: 1, 2, 5, etc. which makes no sense to me while other records are pulling actual versioning that I expect, for instance, 6.0.31, 8.0.25, etc. Can someone explain and help me get to the actual versioning here? Thanks in advance

shelby_day · ‎Oct 15, 2020

What is "bothering" me is the fact that I have a database license consuming both a NUP and a Prod license. That cannot be correct.

shelby_day · ‎Oct 09, 2020

I am seeing consumption for both NUP & Proc metric (same database/instance) on a number of option packs. Is this normal and only corrected via allocations or is something off? What am I missing? Thanks, Shelby

shelby_day · ‎Sep 28, 2020

An observation and question as I am looking at our Oracle environment and working to optimize the licensing. I notice that when I am working with the NUP metric license view the license role (example: PROD, DEV, TEST, etc.) is not available for this metric. I am assuming it is because typically a NUP consumes non-production licensing, however, this is not necessarily the case for us. I am now having to dump this consumption info into a spreadsheet and run vlookups from active inventory to determine what role each of the VMs plays. I assume this would be an enhancement? It may not see logical to have the field available, but it really is for us. Shelby

shelby_day · ‎Sep 28, 2020

Thank you for the info. You always have such great insight.

shelby_day · ‎Sep 10, 2020

What is the best practice according top Flexera to accept (or not) IBM Recommended License Changes that come in? Someone decided to "help" me by accepting ALL the recommended changes without reviewing or considering impact to the licensing. I have now spent the better part of 2 months trying to get my consumption back in line. Every time I make a change or try to reverse the change that I didn't make a ripple effect happens and several licenses are affected. I'm at a loss as to what to do. Typically I read what the recommended changes are and make a decision to either accept or reject. Unfortunately that didn't happen in this instance and I'm doing clean up. The same thing happened to me early on when I took the recommendation of someone at Flexera and accepted ALL changes. That took a month to clean up as well. Since then I've been very careful about making changes. How does one know to accept these changes in the first place and how do we really know what the impact will be? What happens if you do not accept the changes? Should I open a case with Flexera to address this? Thanks, Shelby

shelby_day · ‎Aug 06, 2020

What's the trick to getting FNMS to discover my TIBCO installed apps, specifically for processor based licensing? I can see ONLY desktop products from TIBCO. Any advice is appreciated. Shelby

shelby_day · ‎Jun 23, 2020

Has anyone ever heard of IBM PVUs being calculated against a "client" license and if so, how does one differentiate that a client "license" is in use as opposed to a full license. I keep getting push back on this. Thanks in advance! Shelby

shelby_day · ‎Apr 14, 2020

I'm not understanding the definition of "Number of Licenses in Use" in the FNMS online help information for OSW. Why do I see 0 on many entries when I would expect to see some liceneses in use. Does anyone know what would cause this? Thanks, Shelby

shelby_day · ‎Mar 18, 2020

Thank you for the suggestion. I won't be asking for an enhancement for this as it would be low priority. We have many other requests that have been in the "Q" for a while that would take much more precedence.

shelby_day · ‎Mar 17, 2020

Our internal engineer is working on this. Something in the background is not updating. FNMS for some reason isn't "seeing" the update we made to our license. Odd that Flexera cannot correct this quickly.

shelby_day · ‎Mar 17, 2020

Among the host of other issues/problems we are having implementing the Oracle PURL, I'd like to understand why the views are not the same across the board for various publishers. Why am I able to see "inventory device type" on every other publisher besides Oracle? I know the consumption is at the host level so this may be the logic, however, I don't understand not seeing this same field for each publisher as I do use it in our environment. Thanks

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