[IMPORTANT UPDATE: 9 December 2020] Great news - Our Flexera customer and partner community now have a direct opportunity to share ideas and participate in future feature planning.   Learn more and add your ideas via the Ideas Portal moving forward. Please note if you have added an idea to this discussion, we will migrate the idea to the new portal and notify you once it's been done. Thank you to everyone for active participation!  ------------------------------------------------------------------- You can help shape Flexera's future by sharing ideas for improving AdminStudio. We know you work with this product, probably every day. Not only see how well it works now, but you also have ideas for making it better.   Your feedback is essential to informing product decisions and shaping how AdminStudio and other Flexera solutions will evolve.  The Ideas board is gone. But, don’t worry. Ideas you submitted to the Idea board are not lost. And a new spot for collecting ideas will find a permanent place on the Flexera Community in June.  In the meantime, we still want to hear your suggestions.    The comments below this article are your spot to offer ideas. Flexera’s product team will regularly review the ideas you post.  The product team primarily is watching for ideas that gain traction among members of the community.  That’s why it’s important for you to both leave your ideas but also support other excellent product ideas you see.   How it works:    You’ll need to register with and log in to the community. Click “Sign In” in the upper right-hand corner. If you don’t have an account, create one by clicking “Let’s go!’ on the sign in page. Or log in if you already are registered.   Check if your suggestion already is posted in the comments below. If it is, click the thumbs up to give it a kudo. More likes will increase the visibility and help us prioritize.   Submit your idea for a product change, if it isn’t there.   One more thing: You don’t need to mention bug fixes or other issues that Flexera’s Support team could handle.  You can open a support case by clicking on “Get Support” drop-down menu at the top of the page if you have a maintenance plan.   Thank you for your help.  ... View more

[IMPORTANT UPDATE: 9 December 2020] Great news - Our Flexera customer and partner community now have a direct opportunity to share ideas and participate in future feature planning.   Learn more and add your ideas via the Ideas Portal moving forward. Please note if you have added an idea to this discussion, we will migrate the idea to the new portal and notify you once it's been done. Thank you to everyone for active participation!  ------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can help shape Flexera's future by sharing ideas for improving FlexNet Manager solutions. We know you work with this product, probably every day. Not only see how well it works now, but you also have ideas for making it better.     Your feedback is essential to informing product decisions and shaping how FlexNet Manager and other Flexera solutions will evolve.  The Ideas board is gone. But, don’t worry. Ideas you submitted to the Idea board are not lost. And a new spot for collecting ideas will find a permanent place on the Flexera Community in June.    In the meantime, we still want to hear your suggestions.      The comments below this article are your spot to offer ideas. Flexera’s product team will regularly review the ideas you post.  The product team primarily is watching for ideas that gain traction among members of the community.  That’s why it’s important for you to both leave your ideas but also support other excellent product ideas you see.     How it works:      You’ll need to register with and log in to the community. Click “Sign In” in the upper right-hand corner. If you don’t have an account, create one by clicking “Let’s go!’ on the sign in page. Or log in if you already are registered.     Check if your suggestion already is posted in the comments below. If it is, click the thumbs up to give it a kudo. More likes will increase the visibility and help us prioritize.     Submit your idea for a product change, if it isn’t there.     One more thing:  You don’t need to mention bug fixes or other issues that Flexera’s Support team could handle.     You can open a support case by clicking on “Get Support” drop-down menu at the top of the page if you have a maintenance plan.     Thank you for your help.   ... View more

[IMPORTANT UPDATE: 9 December 2020] Great news - Our Flexera customer and partner community now have a direct opportunity to share ideas and participate in future feature planning.   Learn more and add your ideas via the Ideas Portal moving forward. Please note if you have added an idea to this discussion, we will migrate the idea to the new portal and notify you once it's been done. Thank you to everyone for active participation!  ------------------------------------------------------------- You can help shape Flexera's future by sharing ideas for improving Software Vulnerability Manager and Software Vulnerability Research. We know you work with this product, probably every day. You not only see how well it works now, but you also have ideas for making it better.   Your feedback is essential to informing product decisions and shaping how SRM and SVR and other Flexera solutions will evolve.  The Ideas board is gone. But don’t worry. Ideas you submitted to the Idea board are not lost. And a new spot for collecting ideas will find a permanent place on the Flexera Community in June.  In the meantime, we still want to hear your suggestions.    The comments below this article are your spot to offer ideas. Flexera’s product team will regularly review the ideas you post. The product team is primarily watching for ideas that gain traction among members of the community. That’s why it’s important for you to both leave your ideas but also support other excellent product ideas you see.   How it works:    You’ll need to register with and log in to the community. Click “Sign In” in the upper right-hand corner. If you don’t have an account, create one by clicking “Let’s go!’ on the sign in page. Or log in if you already are registered.   Check if your suggestion already is posted in the comments below. If it is, click the thumbs up to give it a kudo. More likes will increase the visibility and help us prioritize.   Submit your idea for a product change, if it isn’t there.   One more thing: You don’t need to mention bug fixes or other issues that Flexera’s Support team could handle.  You can open a support case by clicking on “Get Support” drop-down menu at the top of the page if you have a maintenance plan.   Thank you for your help.  ... View more

[IMPORTANT UPDATE: 9 December 2020] Great news - Our Flexera customer and partner community now have a direct opportunity to share ideas and participate in future feature planning.   Learn more and add your ideas via the Ideas Portal moving forward. Please note if you have added an idea to this discussion, we will migrate the idea to the new portal and notify you once it's been done. Thank you to everyone for active participation!  ------------------------------------------- You can help shape Flexera's future by sharing ideas for improving Data Platform. We know you work with this product, probably every day. You not only see how well it works now, but you also have ideas for making it better.     Your feedback is essential to informing product decisions and shaping how Data Platform and other Flexera solutions will evolve.  The Ideas board is gone. But don’t worry. Ideas you submitted to the Idea board are not lost. And a new spot for collecting ideas will find a permanent place on the Flexera Community in June.    In the meantime, we still want to hear your suggestions.      The comments below this article are your spot to offer ideas. Flexera’s product team will regularly review the ideas you post. The product team is primarily watching for ideas that gain traction among members of the community. That’s why it’s important for you to both leave your ideas but also support other excellent product ideas you see.     How it works:      You’ll need to register with and log in to the community. Click “Sign In” in the upper right-hand corner. If you don’t have an account, create one by clicking “Let’s go!’ on the sign in page. Or log in if you already are registered.     Check if your suggestion already is posted in the comments below. If it is, click the thumbs up to give it a kudo. More likes will increase the visibility and help us prioritize.     Submit your idea for a product change, if it isn’t there.     One more thing:  You don’t need to mention bug fixes or other issues that Flexera’s Support team could handle.     You can open a support case by clicking on “Get Support” drop-down menu at the top of the page if you have a maintenance plan.     Thank you for your help.   ... View more

Summary This article discusses 3rd Party License Server Management using FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications. Synopsis Custom plugins can be developed and used with FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications to help manage 3 rd party license servers (that is, license servers that are not based on FlexLM). This capability enables both operational management of 3 rd party license servers (with actions such as start, stop, status reporting and log rotatation), and an optional capability using a rules based engine to generate CRL (Common Report Log) files from raw usage data generated by the 3 rd party technologies. Discussion FlexNet Manager for Engineering agents from version 5.x provide the ability to use custom plugins to manage license server technologies that are NOT covered out of the box. This solution offering leverages this plugin capability and instead of developing a different plugin for each different 3rd party technology the solution here is a generic set of plugins to allow any 3 rd party license servers to be registered with FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications. Related Documents Some documentation detailing this capability is included in the attached Word document. Also see the Managing License Servers, Vendor Daemons, and FlexNet Agents > Managing Third-Party License Servers topic in the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications User Guide (2020 R1 documentation link here). ... View more