Flexera One IT Asset Management February 2023 update includes the following new features and updates.  Note: For detailed information on these new features and updates, see the What's New in Flexera One / February 2023.   Item Description Support for Linux on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE Flexera One now provides discovery, visibility and licensing on Linux on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE. Merged Devices Issues Analysis Report The new Merged Devices Issues Analysis report provides details on the inventory devices imported from same or multiple sources. New Columns Added to the IBM License Compliance Reports Five new columns have been added to the IBM compliance reports. These new columns provide additional information to represent the zSystems hierarchy structure in IT Asset Management. Trend Data for the SAM Optimization Hub With this update, the SAM Optimization Hub now renders historical trend data in the form of two line charts. Estimated Savings vs. Classical Approach (Trend) Save By Taking Action (Top 5 Trends) FlexNet Inventory Agent Change Log List of updates to the FlexNet inventory agent. Inventory Beacon Change Log  List of updates to the inventory beacon. Resolved Issues in the February update List of known issues resolved in the February update.    We love to hear about your experiences, so let us know how things go with these updates by posting a comment here or in the FlexNet Manager Forum. Of course, the friendly Flexera Support team is also always standing by to take your call. Thanks for being a partner of Flexera on this journey.   ... View more

Flexera One IT Asset Management January 2023 update includes the following new features and updates.  Note: For detailed information on these new features and updates, see the What's New in Flexera One / January 2023. Item Description New allocation reason field added to the consumption tab A new Allocation Reason text field has been added to the consumption tab on license properties, allowing you to document the reason why a user or device was allocated to a license. New Columns in the VMs Inventory Gaps From vCenters Report Three new columns have been added to the Virtual Machine group in the VMs Inventory Gaps From vCenters report. Device name: The system name of the virtual machine. Last known state: The status of the virtual machine most recently reported by your cloud service provider. VM type: The type of virtual machine. Ability to Recognize IBM Red Hat JBoss and Middleare Installations Previously, there was no visibility on JBoss usage. With this release, the inventory capabilities of the FlexNet inventory agent have been extended to detect the installation of the following Red Hat JBoss and middleware applications: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform JBoss Web Server Decision Manager Fuse Changes to Supported Operating Systems and Compatibility with Other Products The following operating system versions have been added to the list of supported operating systems on FlexNet inventory agent: Cent OS 9 Debian Linux 11.5 Fedora Linux 37 The following product versions have been added to the compatibility list of IT Asset Management with other products: Citrix Virtual Apps server (previously XenApp server) 7.2209 Citrix Virtual Desktops (previously Citrix XenDesktop) 7.2209 EdgeSight for Citrix Virtual Apps (previously XenApp EdgeSight) 7.2209 IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) or HCL BigFix Inventory on IBM DB2 9.2.30 FlexNet Inventory Agent Change Log List of updates to the FlexNet inventory agent. Inventory Beacon Change Log  List of updates to the inventory beacon. Resolved Issues in the January update List of known issues resolved in the January update.   We love to hear about your experiences, so let us know how things go with these updates by posting a comment here or in the FlexNet Manager Forum. Of course, the friendly Flexera Support team is also always standing by to take your call. Thanks for being a partner of Flexera on this journey.   ... View more

Summary Flexera One ITAM inventory devices under certain conditions may display additional model details Powered by Technopedia on certain inventory device properties.   The Powered by Technopedia panel is displayed as part of the beta (program) integration of IT Asset Management inventory devices with Technopedia. We are deprecating this beta integration of IT Asset Management inventory devices with Technopedia by January 16, 2023. An example of a display panel Powered by Technopedia on inventory device properties.  This means the Powered by Technopedia panel to display additional model details would not be available on inventory device properties from January 16, 2023. Note: Flexera One IT Visibility customers will keep on getting comprehensive normalized hardware details powered by Technopedia through Flexera One IT Visibility. Applies to Flexera One ITAM ... View more

Summary I am delighted to announce we have extended the Flexera Kubernetes/OpenShift inventory agent to support Kubernetes/OpenShift on IBM Z mainframe z/VM or KVM virtualization. This release will provide visibility into Kubernetes/OpenShift cluster and IBM products/Cloud Pak’s licensing running in Kubernetes containers by integrating with IBM License Service running on IBM Z z/VM or KVM. Kubernetes/OpenShift on IBM Z Support This release is going to provide support for Kubernetes/OpenShift running on Linux on IBM Z z/VM OR KVM IBM products/Cloud Paks running in Kubernetes containers Note: Linux container image & Linux VM on IBM Z z/VM OR KVM inventory, visibility, and licensing will be available in the 2023 Q1 coming release. What do I need to do? Flexera Kubernetes/OpenShift inventory agent is available in the Flexera One ITAM to download. You need to deploy to Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters running IBM software and turn ON the integration with IBM License Service. For On-Prem FNMS/ITAM customers, This feature will be part of the FNMS 2022 R2 release, due to be released in December 2022. Note: Linux container image inventory will be available in the 2023 Q1 release. Applies to Flexera One ITAM FlexNet Manager Suite 2022 R2 release (Planned to be released in December 2022) ... View more

Summary I am delighted to announce we have extended the Flexera Windows & Linux inventory agent to discover Red Hat Middleware products to provide visibility and licensing of these Red Hat Middleware products. This will be available in Flexera One ITAM as part of the next Flexera One ITAM update and to Flexera ITAM/FNMS On-Prem customers as part of the 2022 R2 release. Flexera IT Visibility will also by providing visibility into the discovered Red Hat Middleware products. Supported Red Hat Middleware products The following Red Hat Middleware products will be discovered and identified by the Flexera content libraries JBoss Enterprise Application Platform JBoss Web Server Fuse Decision Manager What do I need to do To discover Red Hat Middleware products, Flexera One customers are required to upgrade the Flexera inventory agent to version 19.1.0 (going to be available as part of the January 2023 Flexera One ITAM update) or later. Applies to Flexera One ITAM / IT Visibility FlexNet Manager Suite 2022 R2 release ... View more

Summary I am pleased to share we have made significant improvements to Flexera One ITAM UI response times through a series of updates deployed throughout Q3 2022. To focus this activity, we identified specific pages and operations taking longer to complete than desired through system monitoring, and through valued feedback from customers and partners. To date, work has been done to speed up load times of more than 30 pages. On average, load times for these targeted pages have decreased by 56%, with a maximum decrease of 78%. Here is a list of pages and operations that have had improvements made:  Inventory Devices All inventory list view Inventory device operations Inventory device file evidence view Inventory device WMI evidence view Inventory device installer evidence view Inventory device associated license’s view Inventory devices delete User associated licenses Software Licenses Software License properties Software license consumption tab Apply Allocations and Exemptions Unlicensed CAL Usage view License device CAL consumption License user CAL consumption Assigned licenses to inventory device Points Rules for applications License assignment through user properties Opening application properties All Assets All Assets view Asset update Procurement Purchase order processing Pending purchase order’s view Users All Users grid view Bulk Users delete Inventory Settings and Data Imports Data Imports On-off business import rejected records view Systems Tasks view Inventory agent upgrade targets Beacon failover group Beacon communication groups Data Export Data export from Web UI grids Generic Rest API to export report data (option to automate report data export) What is next While good improvements have been made, we are far from done with this activity! We are working hard to make improvements to further operations that can take a while to run. Our aim is to ensure this is done without losing the benefits of business logic and automation required to take care of the wide range of data driving the complex licensing scenarios that is the heart of what Flexera One ITAM is all about. FlexNet Manager Suite users will benefit from many of the improvements made in the Flexera One ITAM UIs once they upgrade to the upcoming FlexNet Manager Suite 2022 R2 release. ... View more

Flexera One ITAM September update has seen deployed and provides the following list of improvements and extended capabilities to provide more value to our customers. The release notes are available in the online product documentation.    Following are the features/improvements included in the September update Oracle Java is included in Oracle GLAS evidence (Flexera is a verified vendor  for Oracle Java in addition to Oracle Database, Database Options, and Oracle Fusion Middleware)  Adobe Acrobat Edition Detection (The Flexera inventory collection capabilities have been extended to detect different editions of Adobe Acrobat DC (Professional, Standard, and Reader) on desktop machines. This new functionality has been added to the InventorySettings.xml file, which is delivered to all customers by means of an ARL release) Updated lists of supported operating and compatibility with other products The following operating system versions have been added to the list of supported operating systems by the FlexNet inventory agent: Oracle Linux 9.0 (x86 64-bit only) The following product versions have been added to the compatibility list of IT Asset Management with other products: HCL BigFix Inventory on Microsoft SQL Server 10.0.0–10.0.9 FlexNet inventory agent change log FlexNet beacon change log Resolved issues in 2022 R1.6 We love to hear about your experiences, so let us know how things go with these updates by posting a comment here or in the FlexNet Manager Forum. Of course, the friendly Flexera Support team is also always standing by to take your call. Thanks for being a partner of Flexera on this journey. Regards, Team Flexera Aamer Sharif Sr Product Manager Flexera One / ITAM ... View more

Summary We are delighted to announce, now Flexera One ITAM has a generic REST API, that provides access to Flexera One ITAM Reports data by calling report ID. Generic REST API provides another alternative option to automate the reading of relevant data from Flexera One ITAM and provides opportunities to build automated integration to consume data from Flexera One ITAM. How it works Flexera One ITAM report builder is a great user interface to create reports by selecting relevant objects and objects properties to fulfill business needs. Users can build report/s and validate required data by visualizing and save a report. Each report is assigned a unique identity. Now users can automate the reading of data by calling those reports by calling report ID using Flexera One ITAM generic REST API. This required a Flexera IAM token authentication and to access data through Flexera One ITAM generic REST API. This report delivers data using paging technology. When reading thousands of rows, each page will return 10 thousand rows. For more details please check the API online documentation and getting started with the Flexera One API documentation for more details on how to get a token.   Applies to Flexera One ITAM ... View more

Flexera One ITAM August update provides the following list of improvements and extended capabilities to provide more value to our customers. The release notes are available in the online product documentation.    Following are the features/improvements included in the August update Named user license consumption and optimization report(This report provides the license consumption for all named user licenses, summarized by user/license. It provides the full details on the user (full name, email address, entity information) and consumption (installed, used applications consuming the licenses) and computes recommendations on subscriptions downgrades)  Application transparency report (Application transparency report is updated to exclude inactive devices to provide the relevant data) Oracle Fusion Middleware (Oracle Fusion Middleware data collection has been improved to collect only relevant data for identification and audit) SQL server reporting services (FlexNet inventory agent extended to collect standalone Microsoft SQL Server component installation inventory) ITAM Restful API to read saved report data using the saved Report ID (Flexera One ITAM provides a generic Restful API to read saved report data by passing the report ID. This Restful API is a great way to read data from Flexera One ITAM with user-specified objects and properties to meet their business needs and provides a Restful interface to automate the data) Java identification for other publishers (FlexNet inventory agent extended to detect other publisher's Java installation) User License Consumption Extended (Email and Account name two additional columns have been added to the Consumption tab within License Properties, that will help to get better visibility into licenses consumed by users) AWS inventoried instance account ID (Now AWS inventoried instance account ID is made visible on inventory devices properties and in the report builder; this will help to provide a better view of AWS cloud instances) Updated lists of supported operating and compatibility with other products The following operating system versions have been added to the list of supported operating systems by the FlexNet inventory agent: OpenSuSE Leap 15.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.6 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15.4. The following product versions have been added to the compatibility list of IT Asset Management with other products: IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) or HCL BigFix Inventory FlexNet inventory agent change log FlexNet beacon change log Resolved issues in 2022 R1.4 & R1.5 Published We love to hear about your experiences, so let us know how things go with these updates by posting a comment here or in the FlexNet Manager Forum. Of course, the friendly Flexera Support team is also always standing by to take your call. Thanks for being a partner of Flexera on this journey. Regards, Team Flexera Aamer Sharif Sr Product Manager Flexera One / ITAM ... View more

Flexera One ITAM July update extends FlexNet inventory agent support for newly released versions of operating systems and deprecated support for end-of-life operating systems. The existing released versions of the FlexNet inventory agent will keep on working on the deprecated operating systems. July update also extended integration support with third-party applications.     The following product versions have been added to the compatibility list of IT Asset Management with other products: BMC Discovery (previously ADDM) 22.2 Citrix Virtual Apps 7.2203 Citrix Virtual Desktops 7.2203 FlexNet Inventory Agent change log FlexNet Beacon change log Resolved issues published We love to hear about your experiences, so let us know how things go with these updates by posting a comment here or in the Flexera One Forum. Of course, the friendly Flexera Support team is also always standing by to take your call.  Thanks for being a partner of Flexera on this journey. Regards, Team Flexera Aamer Sharif Sr Product Manager Flexera One / ITAM ... View more