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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.

RobertH · ‎May 05, 2020

My prototype appears to work using the approach I described earlier: I have not tested it thoroughly. I am not entirely pleased with the approach because it does not make use of the license "Consumption per device, user or access use rights configurations provided for use with virtual environments. An enhancement request was created by Flexera as noted another reply but the priority is such that it will not happen anytime soon. I will likely use a refined version of the prototype for my needs.

RobertH · ‎Apr 21, 2020

We are controlling access to the RDS application using an Active Directory group. We deploy an application to desktop that runs the RDP link to the application for users with access. This was deployed a couple of years ago but recently we added an application to the environment that has license implications. My research currently is taking the following approach: Create a license that tracks usage of the RDP link executable on the user computers. Use the Active Directory group to compile a list of users to import into FNMS. Identify computers owned by the users. I am using the ComplianceComputer.ComplianceUserID to identify ownership. Import these computers. Identify computers, not owned by a user with access, but from which users with access have executed the RDP link application. Import these computers. Import custom evidence for the virtualized application. Import installation evidence using the virtualized application evidence on the target computers. Link the virtualized application evidence to the application which is associated with the device based license. I don't have a successful run yet but am hopeful. Currently, I am using FNMS to construct source information but if I can get the prototype to work correctly, I will look at attaching to the RDS database as the source.

RobertH · ‎Apr 09, 2020

I have a situation where a Microsoft RDS farm is being used to virtualize an application out to users. The access to the application is controlled by membership in an Active Directory group. Anyone with access to the application is consuming a license but FNMS is not recognizing this in the license compliance calculations. Has anyone been successful at configuring FNMS to capture license consumption for a virtual application delivered from Microsoft RDS?

RobertH · ‎Feb 26, 2020

I build an new Inventory adapter for users. The source for the adapter is ... FNMS. So, once a user is put in the system, it does not get removed when all other sources (SCCM, AD, O365, etc...) no longer have the user information. You can build the criteria in the new adapter to keep the user information that you want to keep.

RobertH · ‎Feb 12, 2020

Each Compliance User that comes into FNMS from an inventory import records the import connection (a.k.a. O365, FlexNet Manager Suite, and SCMM) that has supplied information for the user. Looking at the \ProgramData\Flexera Software\Compliance\ImportProcedures\Inventory\Writer\RemoveMissingUsers.xml file, it appears that logic is to remove any Compliance User that has been identified in the ImportedMissingUsers table and has no import connections. It does not appear that the Automatic or Manual connection type influences the operation.

RobertH · ‎Dec 13, 2019

Thank you. I set it up as a User license and, in addition, will have the team manually update allocations when people are assigned access to the Primavera P6 databases.

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