Apr 06, 2021
08:11 AM
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@dbeckner - Having this additional data is not really causing any issues. There is no impact to your FlexNet License - you can have as many Users in the system as you want.
What you really need to consider is that while you could update the Beacon Settings and remove the connection to this Domain, the information from this Domain has already been imported into FlexNet Manager. This includes both the Users and the "Sites and Subnets". While a Business Adapter could update those 21,000 Users to a status of "Inactive", there is not an easy way to clean up the Sites and Subnets except through the User Interface.
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Apr 05, 2021
12:59 PM
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@pjoran - Beacons and Agents perform completely different functions.
The Inventory Beacon is basically a collection point for data and then forwards the collected data on. For example, it can forward the collected data up to the FNMS Cloud. An inventory beacon can connect to a source of data such as SCCM or vCenter, or it can collect the Inventory that has been captured by an Agent.
An Agent is installed on each device to capture all of the raw hardware and software inventory from that device. Once the scan has been completed, the agent creates an "Inventory File" and then uploads that inventory file to an Inventory Beacon using HTTPS PUT.
You can also perform "Remote Inventory", but because of all the requirements, this is seldom used at scale by customers. With this method, the inventory beacon creates a "remote connection" to a target device, copies the Agent binary files over to the target and remotely runs the agent to perform an inventory scan. On Linux, this requires an open SSH connection and logon credentials (stored on the beacon) that have sudo to root credentials on each target Linux server.
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Apr 05, 2021
10:54 AM
@auntalan0 - You will need to reach out to your Apptio account manager. The integration was designed by the Apptio Team.
It is not a direct integration. It involves creating some specific Custom Report Views within the FlexNet Manager User Interface. You would then run the reports, download the output to CSV files, and then the CSV files can be imported into Apptio.
Also please note that the strategic partnership between Flexera and Apptio is not as strong today as it was 2 years ago when the integration was created.
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Apr 01, 2021
09:36 AM
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@junaid_vengadan - For the purposes of RHEL license calculations, the FlexNet Agent obtains the information that is required. If you review the document found here:
https://www.redhat.com/cms/managed-files/li-rhel-subscription-guide-f13117wg-201807-en_0_0.pdf
Note the following definition. Since RHEL is licensed by socket-pair, and a socket-pair is defined as 2 "occupied" socket, this implies that the license calculation is based on the physical processors that are installed in the existing sockets. In other words, if you have empty sockets they are not included in the calculations. Another way to think if this is that you only need to license your "used" sockets.
GLOSSARY Guest: An instance of the software running in a virtual machine, which in turn is running on a hypervisor. In the Red Hat subscription model, a guest is associated with a physical system. Physical node: A physical system on which you install or execute all or a portion of the software, including, without limitation, a server, workstation, laptop, blade, or other physical system, as applicable. Socket: A central processing unit (CPU) socket on a motherboard. Socket-pair: Up to two sockets where each is occupied by a CPU on a system. Two servers with a single occupied socket on each must be entitled separately; therefore, you would purchase two subscriptions—one for each server.
Here is a discussion on the Red Hat community on the topic of Sockets vs. CPU
https://access.redhat.com/discussions/480953
Here is a follow up Community Post regarding how you can model your RHEL Licenses using FlexNet Manager:
https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Configuring-Red-Hat-Licenses-in-FlexNet-Manager/ta-p/5245
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Apr 01, 2021
06:48 AM
@msutharh - You are receiving the following error shown in your ImportPURL log file. This will require a Support ticket to resolve the data issue in your environment. 2021-04-01 11:34:26,220 [Console.ImportPURL ] [ERROR] Msg 50000, Level 14, State 1, Server INMUMFLXPRDDBS, Line 930 2021-04-01 11:34:26,220 [Console.ImportPURL ] [INFO ] ----------------------------------------------- 2021-04-01 11:34:26,220 [Console.ImportPURL ] [ERROR] Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_LicenseDefinitionUsageRight'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.LicenseDefinitionUsageRight'. The duplicate key value is (93115D37E8134E4A7013ED83BA1B1030, 48929E33182EA72B48264895FDA5AD8C). Line 24 2021-04-01 11:34:26,220 [Console.ImportPURL ] [INFO ] Removing unused SoftwareLicenseUseRightProposal records that point to orphaned license definitions
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Mar 31, 2021
11:54 AM
1 Kudo
@jhanes - The end of life dates in the ARL are currently not available in the Report Builder data models. Your option is to build a standard Installation Report by device that includes the Application Name and download to Excel. Go to the Installed Applications View and add your end of life dates there and download to Excel. Merge the 2 Excel spreadsheets together on the Application Name.
If you have FNMS On-Premises, you can do as @erwinlindemann, which is to build a report/view in SQL that has the information that you need.
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Mar 30, 2021
10:58 AM
@raghuvaran_ram - You are correct. Until a computer receives the SCCM or the FNMS Agent, they will not appear within FlexNet Manager as an inventory device.
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Mar 30, 2021
09:41 AM
2 Kudos
Unfortunately, there is not a clean way to modify an Enterprise Group hierarchy. You are basically starting over.
In your case, once you delete the "orphan" corporate units, then all of the Inventory Devices, Users and Hardware Assets linked to that corporate unit will have a blank Corporate Unit. You will need to reimport/reassign the new nested Corporate Units to Inventory Devices and Users.
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Mar 30, 2021
09:38 AM
If you know of a specific Server where the AEM Site Application is installed, then within FlexNet Manager you can find the Inventory Device, go into the details and open the Evidence tab of the device. Search through the raw Installer Evidence and raw File Evidence to see if there is any evidence being captured that can be used to create a Recognition Rule that this application is installed.
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Mar 30, 2021
09:34 AM
@raghuvaran_ram - The database name should be something like "FNMSInventory".
Information extracted from AD is not used in any license reconciliation activity as AD does not provide any details around Hardware or Software Inventory. You need agent-inventory for that to work (SCCM, BigFix, FNMS Agent, etc.)
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Mar 30, 2021
07:47 AM
3 Kudos
@CAUCAR - Flexera does not have any native support for oVirt. However, based on the web site, oVirt is built on top of KVM, and Flexera does have built-in support for Linux KVM Hypervisors. Support for KVM requires the use of the FlexNet Manager Agent:
Run the agent on each VM and run the agent on the Linux KVM Host
FlexNet Manager will then create inventory devices for both the KVM Host and each VM, and link each VM to the physical KVM Host.
The following version of Linux KVM are supported:
CentOS 6+ (x86 64-bit only) Oracle Linux 4.5–6.10 (x86, 32-bit and 64-bit); 7.0-8.2 (x86 64-bit only) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.1–5.3 (x86, 32-bit and 64-bit), 5.4+ (x86 64-bit only) SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86, 32-bit and 64-bit); 12 SP3, 12 SP4, 12 SP5, 15, 15 SP1, 15.2 (x86 64-bit only)
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Mar 30, 2021
07:34 AM
The information regarding Active Directory Computer accounts is stored in the ComplianceInventory database and is currently not shown anywhere within the user interface.
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Mar 29, 2021
10:54 AM
Isn't Adobe Experience Manager a cloud/SaaS-based offering? I am not sure what applications would be installed locally on a workstation.
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Mar 26, 2021
06:52 AM
2 Kudos
@marcog - to add onto Adrian's items, here are a few more steps:
Upgrade your installations of Business Adapter Studio
Review the Release Notes to determine if there are any updates for Flexera Analytics (new versions of Cognos, updates to Data Model, additional Dashboards and Widgets)
Review the Release Notes for Inventory Beacons to determine if and when to auto-upgrade your beacons
Review the Release Notes for the Agent to determine if and when to upgrade your installed agents and to upgrade your Agent Install Package to the new version for your new Agent Installs
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Mar 26, 2021
06:48 AM
@adrian_ritz1 - The simple solution is to set the status of the Inventory Devices of these ESX Hosts to "Ignored".
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