New Policy Templates Policy Updates Be informed of updated policy templates in the Policy Catalog. This policy template identifies the version of all the policies that are applied in an account and compares them to the version of the respective policy template in the catalog. It further creates an incident providing details on when the policy was last updated in the catalog and the link to README and CHANGELOG files. Changes to Existing Policy Templates Azure Unused IP Addresses - Includes Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. AWS Unused RDS Instance - Includes Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. AWS Old Snapshots - Changed Deregister Image parameter default to No to prevent accidental deletion of AMI Snapshots. AWS Cost Policy Templates - Identity the AWS Account by adding the AWS Account ID to the Policy Incident summary. AWS Policy Templates - Update all AWS policy templates to evaluate the allowed regions to support AWS Service Control Policy (SCP). AWS Unused IP Address - Remove IP Addresses from the incident report that have an association with an instance. Azure Reserved Instances Utilization - Resolve false positive reports for RI Utilization. Low Service Usage - Resolve ability to apply the policy template. SaaS Manager Policy Templates - Added support for EU Zone instance of the Policy Manager. Google Committed Discount - Fixed issue to support multiple zones. ... View more

Changes to Existing Policies AWS Old Snapshots included Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. AWS Delete Unused Classic Load Balancers included Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. Azure Idle Compute Instances included Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. AWS Unused IP Addresses included Total Estimated Monthly Savings in the policy incident. No Recent Snapshots include running and operational states when searching for instances with no recent snapshots Billing Center Cost Anomaly fixed empty table cells in incident Google Rightsize CloudSQL Instances fix error related to getting CPU metrics Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Windows Server - removed Windows Client/Windows 10 VM's from the incident. AWS Inefficient Instance Utilization using CloudWatch - Fix issue with duplicate records displayed in the incident ... View more

New Policies Azure - Schedule Instance allows you to schedule start and stop times for your Azure virtual machine. Google - Schedule Instance allows you to schedule start and stop times for your Google instances. Changes to Existing Policies AWS Unused Volumes included Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. Azure Unused Volumes included Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. Azure Rightsize SQL Databases All AWS Policies - fix issue where the policy failed because of AWS Service Control Policy region restrictions. ... View more

New Features The Policy Manager has a new feature to allow users to run actions on selected resources within a Policy Incident. The user also can select an action to run automatically when the incident is created. Read more. Review the Readme file of the policy templates that interest you for additional details as it pertains this new feature. New Policies AWS - Unused IP Addresses identify unused AWS EC2 IP Addresses (EIP) and allows the user to delete the IP address. AWS - Untagged Resources identifies AWS resources that do not have a tag and allow the user to create a new tag on the resource AWS - Schedule Instance allows the user to stop and start an AWS instance on a schedule. Azure - Untagged Resources identifies Azure resources that do not have a tag and allow the user to create a new tag on the resource. Azure - Unused IP Addresses identify unused Azure IP Addresses and allow the user to delete the IP address. Google - Unlabeled Resources identifies Google Cloud resources that do not have a label and allow the user to create a new label on the resource. ... View more

New Policies SaaS Manager - SaaS App User Report by Category   uses Flexera SaaS Manager to identify users entitled to SaaS apps within a specified department. Budget Alerts by Cloud Account   uses Optima to determine if a Cloud Account has exceeded its monthly cost budget. AWS Service Control Policy Audit   audits whether a named policy is applied across all AWS Accounts in the organization ... View more

New Policies Azure Sync Tags with Optima   identifies all Azure tag keys that are not being used as custom dimensions in Flexera Optima. ServiceNow Inactive Approvers   identifies approver users in ServiceNow that have not approved any requests in the past   n   days. ... View more

New Policies SaaS Manager - Duplicate User Accounts   creates an incident when Flexera SaaS Manager identifies duplicate user accounts within a single managed SaaS application. SaaS Manager - Unsanctioned Applications with Existing Contract   creates an incident when Flexera SaaS Manager identifies unsanctioned SaaS purchases for managed applications under an existing license contract.   ... View more

New Features The Policy Manager has an improved incident table. The new incident table allows users to sort columns, hide and show columns and filter for text within the table. This feature requires the use of the   export block   within the policy template. New Policies SaaS Manager - Inactive Users   create an incident when Flexera SaaS Manager identifies inactive or never active users for managed applications. SaaS Manager - Redundant Apps   create an incident when Flexera SaaS Manager identifies application categories with an excessive number of applications. FlexNet Manager Low Available Licenses   creates and incident when Flexnet Manager Licenses with available count less than user provide percentage. ... View more

New Features The Policy Manager now allows users to update configuration options of an Applied Policy. See the   documentation to learn more. The Policy Manager now allows user to set the Severity when applying or updating an Applied Policy. See the   documentation to learn more. ... View more

For months we have been using this api endpoint and it stopped working with the following message.  We have reset our password and are able to access flexnetmanager.com UI.  We are now getting a 401 error.  This is the request we are making. curl -X POST \ http://www.flexnetmanager.com/ManageSoftServices/ComplianceAPIService/ComplianceAPIService.asmx \ -H 'Authorization: Basic xxxx' \ -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \ -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \ -H 'Content-Type: text/xml;charset=utf-8' \ -d '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:tem="http://tempuri.org/"> <soap:Body> <tem:GetCustomView> <tem:customViewID>10052</tem:customViewID> <tem:rowLimit>1000</tem:rowLimit> </tem:GetCustomView> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope>' Response 401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials. ... View more