Thanks for checking. That works but does require involvement from business partners. Worse yet, we found a few instances where the file was stored as part of a Windows profile so the only person who could find the file was someone with Admin credentials. Apparently the software was installed by someone who no longer exists in our domain, so the file was hidden to other users. Ugh ... View more

I submitted this issue to Natalie Lias at Flexera yesterday following the User Group meeting.  I see it as two issues: 1. If you create a local ARL, when the Flexera ARL comes out, it often accurately reports the number of devices, BUT evidence used in the local ARL is left as unrecognized when you delete the duplicate local ARL. Only solution is to manually add this making the Flexera ARL a Flexera (Extended) ARL This makes extra work and makes it appear that you have messed with the ARL even though the evidence should be encompassed by the published evidence rule, i.e.,  version 8.5.% as noted below. 2. There would be no need to create a local ARL if Flexera published an ARL for new releases with in days or even proactively rather than making customers wait a few months for it to be recognized. ... View more

We imported SCCM to our FNMS on Premise deployment for a number of years, but eventually ran into issues with SCCM collecting file evidence. The team that supports SCCM turned file evidence collection off due to resource consumption which lead us to deploy the FlexNet Agent on all Windows PCs and servers.  Our original intent in using SCCM was to reduce the number of agents running, but have been happy with the FlexNet Agent since we transitioned. It is required for more and more reasons and we felt it would continue to provide superior inventory collection. One example is the collection of software tags. SCCM did not collect this info and it left us with vague or no edition information from IBM and Adobe, etc. However, turning off SCCM does impact a number of unexpected things. I would definitely recommend working with Flexera support. It is possible to "turn off" the import which does not purge the SCCM data. Once you remove SCCM  it does purge the data, support docs and engineers can elaborate. Also SCCM does supply user data from Active Directory which impacted us as we eventually removed the SCCM data source. Good luck, I think you'll be happy with the FlexNet Agent alone if you choose to go that route, just takes a bit of work to complete the transition. ... View more