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

Summary I am delighted to announce, that we have extended active directory user data import to include the email address of the active directory user. This will automatically improve the normalization/deduplication of user data when imported from Inventory and SaaS publishers (This eliminates the need for a business adapter to populate email addresses for each inventory user to normalize user data imported from inventory and SaaS).   Active Directory User Email Address Import Active directory user import is now extended to import the email address of each active directory user where available. This means customer/s do not have to populate/update user inventory data with the email address using a business adapter as it will be automatically done when active directory user data is imported using the latest Flexera inventory beacon.  What Do I Need to Do Flexera One ITAM customer/s are required to upgrade the Flexera inventory beacon to version 18.2.0 or later. 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 and simplified IBM license consumption audit reports generation. Now Flexera One ITAM provides a one-click option to generate a signed snapshot of the IBM license consumption audit reports, generated package includes the relevant information required for IBM renewal discussions.  We have also added separate peak and current consumption reports for IBM non-cloud pack product/s licensed using the VPC metric. IBM License Consumption Audit Report Generation Now Flexera One ITAM IBM peak consumption reports contain the “Download the IBM audit report” option to generate and download IBM audit reports as a package for IBM sub-capacity licenses. Generate signed audit reports snapshot includes the following peak consumption report and out-of-date inventory devices count and percentage. Users can generate IBM audit reports from any consumption report. Generated snapshot package automatically includes all three peak consumption reports. IBM PVU License Consumption IBM Cloud Pak License Consumption IBM VPC License Consumption Report summary includes the out-of-date inventory devices count and percentage to provide visibility in devices that have contributed to the peak but have not reported inventory data from the last 10 days or more before the end of the current reporting period. Download IBM audit report options       Extensions to IBM Consumption Reports We have made a few extensions to IBM consumption reports data to provide more clarity into the license consumption contribution. Added “Change PVU per core” column to IBM PVU consumption report to provide visibility into whether the PVU point used for a device contributing to IBM PVU license peak is out of the box or custom added by a user. Out-of-date inventory device count and percentage to provide visibility of how many devices contributing to the peak have not reported inventory data from the last days or more before the end of the current reporting period. Added two new  reports IBM VPC License Consumption and IBM VPC License Current Consumption Applies to Flexera One ITAM FlexNet Manager Suite 2022 R2 release (Planned to be released in December 2022)   ... View more

We are pleased to inform you that the June 2022 update (release number 2022 R1.2) of Flexera One ITAM is deployed to UAT environments on May 27 and the production environment in Europe on June 3. We are planning to upgrade North America on June 8. Please note upgrade schedule is subject to change, you will be notified in the event that we need to modify the upgrade schedule date. If you have any questions about this release or upgrade, please ask through the community or contact Customer Support. The release notes are available in the online product documentation. Following are the features and improvements included in the June update New Microsoft Windows Server Optimization Flat View Report  (Using the exact same logic and inputs as the  Windows Server Optimization report released in 2021 R1.4, this report addresses these complexities and challenges and provides a flat list of VM Hosts)  New "Product" filter for generating Application Transparency reports(Application transparency report, now you have the option to pre-filter the records by a selected product name and only the records associated with that product will be displayed)  User data imported from Active Directory now returns the email address key for SaaS user normalization extension(User data is received from a variety of different sources, such as Active Directory and SaaS products like O365 and Salesforce. Extension to user data from the active directory will help to merge user data when imported from inventory and SaaS inventory sources)  Bulk enable and disable i mport detailed evidence  (Now users can do bulk enable and disable import detailed evidence by selecting multiple applications through the Applications grid)  Option to select or deselect Oracle database instance from the audit report Lists of supported operating systems and compatibility with other products have been updated Inventory Agent change log FlexNet Beacon change log Resolved issues published(Going to be published soon)  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

We are pleased to inform you that the May 2022 update (release number 2022 R1.1) of Flexera One ITAM is deployed to UAT environments on April 29 and the production environment in Europe on May 5 th . We are planning to upgrade North America on May 10. Please note upgrade schedule is subject to change, you will be notified in the event that we need to modify the upgrade schedule date. If you have any questions about this release or upgrade, please ask through the community or contact Customer Support. The release notes are available in the online product documentation.    Following are the features and improvements included in the May update  VMware Horizon adapter for collecting non-persistent VDI data(The new  VMware Horizon adapter  allows you to collect non-persistent VDI data from  VMware Horizon  and import it into  IT Asset Management ) IBM VPC license consumption reports(The IBM VPC License Consumption report is an audit report that displays the consumption details of all VPC-licensed IBM products that are not bundled) IBM PVU license consumption reports extension(The IBM PVU License Consumption reports now provide visibility into IBM PVU Point used for each device contribution to peak calculation, was customized or standard published by Flexera ARL Library) Export Signed IBM License Consumption Reports (Now Flexera ITAM provides option to export signed IBM consumption reports along with out-of-date inventory visibility) Horizon Virtual Desktops Access Mode Added to Installer and File Evidence  Two additional tabs (VDIs, AD Groups) have been added to the Virtual Desktop Template Properties page An additional new license assignment failure reason has been added  The generation of the Oracle GLAS evidence archive has been added as a system task 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

We are pleased to inform you that the April 2022 update (release number 2022 R1) of Flexera One ITAM is deployed to UAT environments on April 1 and Europe production on April 12.  We are planning to upgrade the production environment in North America on April 19. Please note upgrade schedule is subject to change, you will be notified in the event that we need to modify the upgrade schedule date. If you have any questions about this release or upgrade, please ask through the community or contact Customer Support. The release notes are available in the online product documentation.    April 2022 update includes  defect fixes only. 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 Snr  Product Manager Flexera One / ITAM ... View more

Summary We are delighted to announce Flexera One ITAM SOAP API integration has been transitioned to Flexera One Identity and Access Management (IAM) from Flexera AGW (legacy identify provider). Now Flexera One ITAM users only need to get an IAM refresh token and any user account that has access to Flexera One ITAM should be able to the same account to generate a refresh token. Flexera IAM integration is based on refresh and access tokens where the access token is short-lived to keep Flexera One access secure and robust. Note: This will also remove the need for a separate web service account as an interactive account with access to ITAM can be used to generate token to access SOAP APIs. What About Existing Integration Flexera One ITAM SOAP APIs existing integration using AGW token will keep on working, also includes Flexera App Broker / Admin Studio On-Prem integration with Flexera One ITAM. If you are accessing Flexera One ITAM SOAP APIs, we highly recommend transitioning existing Flexera One ITAM SOAP API integrations to Flexera One IAM as Flexera AGW would not support this integration later in Q4 2022. App Broker 2022 R1 On-Prem release will have out-of-the-box integration support with Flexera One ITAM using Flexera IAM for our Flexera One ITAM customers still using App Broker On-Prem. Flexera recommends upgrading App Broker to 2022 R1 or later. For any support, Flexera recommends reaching out to the Flexera support team always there to help you. What Do I Need to do? Download the Flexera One ITAM SOAP API’s integration webAPI configuration file that contains the Organization ID you want to integrate to access data through SOAP APIs.Generate a new refresh to generate a short-lived access token using the Flexera One IAM user account that has access to Flexera One ITAM. Flexera IAM refresh token is used issue access token to access SOAP APIs. Existing API endpoints https://flexnetmanager.com/ManageSoftServices/ComplianceAPIService/ComplianceAPIService.asmx https://flexnetmanager.eu/ManageSoftServices/ComplianceAPIService/ComplianceAPIService.asmx New Endpoints for API Transition to Flexera One IAM Flexera One ITAM Hosted in North America  https://slo.app.flexera.com/ManageSoftServices/ComplianceAPIService/ComplianceAPIService.asmx?orgid=<insertorgid> Flexera One ITAM Hosted in Europe https://slo.app.flexera.eu/ManageSoftServices/ComplianceAPIService/ComplianceAPIService.asmx?orgid=<insertorgid> Note: For UAT endpoints equivalent URL’s are available for North America(slo-uat.app.flexera.com) and Europe (slo-uat.app.flexera.eu) region. Applies to Flexera One ITAM ... View more

Summary We are delighted to announce Flexera One ITAM/ITV and FNMS/ITAM OnPrem inventory and software licensing capabilities have been extended   to support Linux distributions   running on IBM Power PC (POWER8 (and later) processors) LPAR partitioning technology. Inventory and Licensing Support Flexera Inventory agent for Linux on PowerPC architecture supports all the existing software inventory sources Flexera inventory agent support and hardware inventory data including virtualization identification, including capacity information required for sub-capacity licensing for publishers like IBM, Oracle. Flexera One ITAM and FNMS 2022 R1 also provide software licensing including sub-capacity licensing for software installed on supported Linux distribution running in PowerPC LPAR partitions technologies. Supported Version and Availability Flexera Inventory agent version 17.4.1 and later supports Linux on PowerPC and is available in Flexera One ITAM for download and deployment through the inventory settings page. Note: For On-Prem FNMS/ITAM customers, it will be available as part of the 2022 R1 release. What Do I Need to Do? Installed Flexera Inventory agent version 17.4.1 or later for PowerPC (ppc64le) on supported Linux distribution running on PowerPC LPAR partitions. Flexera inventory agent will start collecting and upload inventory data to provide visibility of inventory and provide licensing for license installed applications on those virtual machines / partitions. Applies to Flexera One ITAM / ITV FlexNet Manager Suite 2022 R1  ... View more