Apr 06, 2021
12:42 PM
Hi - Partner team helped confirm this product is not on existing roadmap. I will submit an enhancement request in Ideas.
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Apr 06, 2021
09:02 AM
Good day, John. My question wasn't a request for features or enhancements. It was a roadmap question. Is this technology included in existing features for FNMS versions already released or to be released within the next year? I've forwarded the question to our Partners team as well now. Thanks, David
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Mar 30, 2021
04:37 PM
1 Kudo
https://tanzu.vmware.com/tanzu I have just been informed that this product will be deployed in our environment by our VMWare team. Is this on Flexera's radar yet? I am going to assume that the 2019 R2 On-Prem product (and agents) we are using may not be able to perform introspection and inventory of these containers, but I thought it was worth asking. Thanks, David Mathias NTT DATA Services
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Mar 04, 2021
11:06 AM
Flexera team, should we open a case if SKUs that you provided are not recognized by FNMS? There's one in particular for Oracle RAC that has come to our attention.
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Mar 04, 2021
10:56 AM
1 Kudo
I know we have agents deployed to Exalytics hardware (ORACLE SERVER X5-4) running Oracle Linux 8.
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Mar 02, 2021
11:11 AM
Yes, CALs are another concern entirely. We were looking at CAL tracking but were informed there is no point until all Win Server 2K8 is flushed out of our environment. So far our scope is limited to 3 US DC's, so the European tracking concerns you outline are not yet relevant (to the best of my knowledge); but we will do due diligence before proceeding. I will share this conversational exchange with our consultant. It's likely that you two are in agreement and he will patiently explain that what you have shared is what he previously tried to share with me. 😉 Thanks
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Mar 02, 2021
10:35 AM
Thank you. Does the target approach depend upon our "managing subnets"? We stopped "managing subnets" at the point we went from zero-touch inventory to using the deployed agents (years ago). Yes, we already get "used = y/n" information for Oracle products - I presume that is a result of the deeper Oracle introspection performed by the agents. But your observation about Exchange, etc., mirrors what our consultant advised. And that advice came to me when I observed that enabling the usage tracking returns not only usage and uptime but also the tracked users. I was ready to jump up and down with joy over user tracking, but the consultant weighed in at that point and warned me not to get my hopes up too high. So the bucket or category that I need to keep in mind is (to quote you) "applications are tracked if they are being used interactively only"? That would explain why WinZip on jump servers reports usage and user, but not MS SQL Server? Back to cost/benefit. What do I potentially lose, if I enable - other than blowing up (further) the size of my back end databases with the additional detail? Best, David
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Mar 02, 2021
10:02 AM
My second post today - I'm on a roll! I have recently learned that Flexera default behavior on agents, and recommended practice by our consultants, is *not* to enable the software usage features within our deployed agents. So, those data fields in our UI appear with blank values when we look at the "Raw Software Usage" report in the Discovery menu. After 8 years of supporting this customer, however, there is a fair amount of "abandonware" detected as installed applications in our environment. Having visibility to how long ago an application was used would seem to be valuable in driving conversations around retirement of licenses as well as identifying installations that may require licensing - even if the product is not in use. While our consultant advised that, in a datacenter environment, this feature doesn't work in the same way that it would in an EUC/client environment, he immediately backtracked and considered the example of a licensed product like WinZip where the usage on "jump servers" could really have consequences from a licensing perspective. So, how does one go about assessing the cost/benefit of enabling this feature? In our case, it's unclear that we could make the change at the beacon level. We'd likely have to stand up a new project to redeploy and reconfigure the 1.5K or so agents in our environment - meaning time and money. Thanks.
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Mar 02, 2021
09:50 AM
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Seeing the recent announcement about the Veritas/Symantec updates made in FNMS, that has me wondering what best practices folks follow as a broad approach. In the 8 years we've been running this program, there have been numerous mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of software products - some of which we're really only becoming aware of as we start trying to dig into our Tier 3 application portfolio. (We're datacenter only, by the way) Some examples are Dell Software with Quest and KACE, BlueCoat being acquired by Symantec, Brocade going to Broadcom, etc. Do you all create manual associations with the changing vendor and publisher names, do you ask Flexera content team to build that in the ARL, do you edit legacy purchases? What is a set of best practices to pursue here? Thanks.
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Feb 08, 2021
05:08 PM
2 Kudos
Hi Blake, the Ideas portal is here: https://flexerasfdc.ideas.aha.io/ You may want to scrape your content and submit it there. I hope that team Flexera creates a link to Ideas from the Community menus soon. Thanks, David
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Dec 10, 2020
03:46 PM
Unfortunately I couldn't tell you. My impression is that they do not. Without being unnecessarily impolitic, every time we are asked to consider migrating from on-prem to cloud the cost and the inflexibility dissuade us from proceeding. David
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Dec 10, 2020
11:45 AM
1 Kudo
While we track only by datacenter location, those data attributes are available to us. Should we ever decide to track, we would use custom fields. Yes, we're on-prem. David
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Dec 01, 2020
02:10 PM
Subscribing to this thread so I can track updates and responses. Thanks, David Mathias NTT DATA Services
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Dec 01, 2020
11:39 AM
1 Kudo
I've brought up this topic a couple of times already: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Forum/Consumption-by-Red-Hat-Satellite-Nodes/td-p/150256 https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Forum/RH-Satellite-Recognition-and-Possible-Integration/td-p/157408 My team would be interested in knowing of any further developments or solutions. Thanks, David Mathias NTT DATA Services
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Nov 30, 2020
02:14 PM
We are also interested. We are having the RHEL admins export data from Satellite server and then we have to manually allocate consumption against the license to be able to report the monthly managed services fee against the blanket PO for that feature. We have also discovered that FNMS data may regularly be more accurate than Satellite data on RHEL version installed, curiously enough.
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