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RobertH · ‎Aug 05, 2022

I have two licenses - a Standard Edition and a Datacenter Edition - using the Microsoft Server/Management Core license type. Both licenses grant rights to use Windows Server Standard installation and the Standard Edition license has higher priority than the Datacenter Edition license. Reconciliation results in a calculated deficit of 68 Standard licenses but there is a surplus of 752 Datacenter licenses. Some of the Windows Server Standard installations where positioned under the Datacenter license by the reconciliation process, but not all, thus resulting in the reported deficit of 68. I allocated a Standard installation to the Datacenter license in an attempt to force the reconciliation process to report a compliant status for both licenses. However, it made the deficit on the Standard worse. Is anyone else seeing this behavior?

RobertH · ‎Apr 20, 2022

How does one make updates to the PURL comments? I would like to make the updates but the Web UI does not appear to provide a way to make these updates.

RobertH · ‎Apr 08, 2022

Yes, I am using an on premise implementation. FNMS 2020 R2. I would be glad to share more details about my situation.

RobertH · ‎Apr 06, 2022

Does anyone else get these unactionable license recommendations to update the PURL comments? "Recommendations with a choice of settings cannot be processed automatically. Please consider manually updating 'PURL comment' to one of the values shown above."

RobertH · ‎Apr 01, 2022

Microsoft Visio for 365 16.0 Application Microsoft Visio - en-us 16.0.% Microsoft% => Installer Evidence Added Visio.exe to File Evidence but I am now getting a error in the UI -> Duplicate Records Microsoft Visio Online for Office 365 <= Appears to be related to the M365 Connector VISIOONLINE Microsoft% Last used date is questionable as I am getting users saying they have not used the software on the resulting dates. Last used date is quirky. Every machine a named user has assigned gets the same last used date. I have attached both applications to the Microsoft Visio Professional Online license managed by the M365 Connector. I did this to get the Visio for 365 16.0 application off of the Unlicensed Installations list when the owner of the machine where the software is installed is a Named User for the subscription license. I also have the following desktop licenses to manage. Microsoft Visio Professional (License with current SA) Microsoft Visio Professional 2019 (License only) Microsoft Visio Standard (L&SA) The desktop licenses are working fine because the installer evidence names include both the edition and the market version numbers.

RobertH · ‎Jan 26, 2022

Is there a process that cleans these up?

RobertH · ‎Sep 16, 2021

Is there an update to this article that applies to FNMS 2020 R2. I am unable to locate the Inventory Adapter Studio installer. Looks like Inventory Adapter Studio is installed as part of the FlexNet Manager Suite installation as well as the Beacon installation.

RobertH · ‎Feb 05, 2021

I have discovered some additional information that may be useful. I was able to dig up a part number for Oracle Primavera P6 (L70295) from our purchase records. I used this part number on a test purchase in FNMS. Then I performed a Recalculate operation from the Unprocessed Purchases view. No recommendation was generated but an alert was generated (see attached OracleBladeLicenseType). This recommendation does not make any sense to me but maybe it does to someone else. The next thing I did was use the processing wizard to create a license. I received a notice from the wizard indicating that I don't have the Flexera licensed functionality to create an Oracle Application User license type (see attached OracleApplicationUser). The notification states that a license type of Device will be used which is not what I would expect for a licensed assigned by user. This is not changing the way we are managing the licenses but perhaps it can be useful to others.

RobertH · ‎Sep 17, 2020

Viewing the list of All Assets will have to be the work around but an advanced filter has to bed used to show assets whose Assigned User or Calculated User the the person in question.

RobertH · ‎Sep 09, 2020

When viewing the hardware section of the user properties in FlexNet Manager Suite 2018 R1, I notice that the Assets portion of the form only displays device hardware assets. Is there a configuration to enable all hardware assets, including non-device hardware assets like cell phones, to be listed in the form as well?

RobertH · ‎Sep 09, 2020

Right. My environment is using FlexNet Manager 2018 R1 with inventory primarily fed from SMS and a small number of machines have FNMS Agent installed to capture SQL Server edition information. So, it looks like I need to collect the last login information in a custom property somehow so asset management personnel can identify candidate hardware assets for reclamation and reassignment.

RobertH · ‎Sep 08, 2020

You described it well. Computer assets are not being used so they are eligible for reassignment to meet requests for computer assets.

RobertH · ‎Sep 04, 2020

How do you use FlexNet Manager to find machines that are, receiving updated inventory, but not being used?

RobertH · ‎Jun 18, 2020

This is what I am hearing. Let me know if I am getting this wrong. Given the generic concern: if a recommendation asks to add software to a license but the software is freely available by other means without any purchase requirement, any installation of the free software would also incorrectly trigger consumption on the license that requires purchase. It sounds like specifically for MSDN, the concern is irrelevant because MSDN is subscription (named user), installations of the software do not effect consumption. Therefore, recommendations for MSDN are constructed using the list of software associated to MSDN by Microsoft without filtering freeware out.

RobertH · ‎Jun 17, 2020

Why is FNMS recommending we add a freeware application to a license in the License Recommendations? The specific case is a recommendation to add '.NET Framework Client Profile 4' to a Microsoft Visual Studio with MSDN Professional license. Is this something that should be reported to Flexera so they can fix it? NOTE: Whenever we Ignore a recommendation, we have to document why we ignore it so this just makes extra work for us.

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Re: Recommends PURL Comment Update

Re: Content Change Notification - Microsoft Visio and Project Name and version changes

Recommends PURL Comment Update

Re: Content Change Notification - Microsoft Visio and Project Name and version changes

Re: Inventory Device has Compliance Computer Status of 4

Re: How can the Inventory Adapter Studio 2015 R2 be accessed.

Re: Primavera P6 Compliance

Re: User Hardware Assets Not Listed

User Hardware Assets Not Listed

Re: Finding Machines Not Being Used

Re: Finding Machines Not Being Used

Finding Machines Not Being Used

Re: Recommendation to Add Freeware to License

Recommendation to Add Freeware to License

Not Enough Entitlements Assessment Reason when Entitlements Available

Re: Recommends PURL Comment Update

Re: Content Change Notification - Microsoft Visio and Project Name and version changes

Recommends PURL Comment Update

Re: Content Change Notification - Microsoft Visio and Project Name and version changes

Re: Inventory Device has Compliance Computer Status of 4

Re: How can the Inventory Adapter Studio 2015 R2 be accessed.

Re: Primavera P6 Compliance

Re: User Hardware Assets Not Listed

User Hardware Assets Not Listed