The SKU, Bundle and Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL), used by FlexNet Manager Suite, have been updated. For on premise customers the SKU/PURL libraries have been published and are now available.  Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by the Recognition Data Import task and be available on Monday, April 26 th 2021 in your time zone.  What's new in this release Over 8,000 new SKUs have been added. The following table provides an overview of the number of SKUs with respect to publisher:  S No Manufacturer Newly added SKUs 1 Veritas 2432 2 VMware 1389 3 Bitdefender 1134 4 ACD Systems 744 5 Others 2,332 Total   8,031   SKU library information are as follows, Total number of SKUs in the library is 2,068,029 across 777 publishers. Total number of PURL templates is 3,566 across the Datacenter publishers. Total number of published Bundles is 4,428 across 19 publishers. How can I verify that my SKU Library has been updated?  You can inspect the changed data in the SKU Library with the SKU Library Update Report. If you do not already have a copy of this report installed, you can obtain the latest version of the report (and installation instructions) from Flexera Software knowledge base article M100955 available from the Flexera Software Knowledge Center at  https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/SKU-Library-Update-Report/ta-p/5900 Please note to access the link it ‘Requires login to the Flexera Customer Community’. How do I report issues with SKU Library updates?  Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL processing with FlexNet Manager Suite, please send an email to your regular Flexera Software Support address: support@flexerasoftware.com (Europe & North America) support-apac@flexerasoftware.com (Asia/Pacific) The regular schedule for SKU/PURL updates  We expect the next update to the PURL & SKU Library to be available on Friday, May 28 th 2021.  The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated daily via the Recognition Data Import task, or as otherwise reflected in your local configuration. Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by Monday, April 26 th 2021 in your time zone. Downloading the SKU/PURL Libraries Manually  The ARL and SKU/PURL library updates can be downloaded from the Flexera Product and Licensing Center (PLC 2.0).  Instructions for downloading the libraries can be located in the following KB article: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Manual-PURL-SKU-Download-amp-Importe... Monthly updates are our minimum commitment. We may also provide additional updates from time to time based on customer demand. We will continue to send email alerts to announce each update. Regards, Team Content ... View more

The SKU, Bundles and Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL), used by FlexNet Manager Suite, have been updated. For on premise customers the SKU/PURL libraries have been published and are now available.  Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by the Recognition Data Import task and be available on Monday, March 29 th 2021 in your time zone.  What's new in this release Over 90 new PURL templates have been added to the library. Publisher 'CA' is now renamed to 'CA Technologies' to be consistent across all Content libraries Over 7,300 new SKUs have been added. The following table provides an overview of the number of SKUs with respect to publisher:  S No Manufacturer Newly added SKUs 1 VMware 7,193 2 IBM 64 3 Oracle 20 4 Digicert 16 5 Others 27 Total   7,342   SKU library information are as follows, Total number of SKUs in the library is 2,059,998 across 760 publishers. Total number of PURL templates is 3,508 across the Datacenter publishers. Total number of published Bundles is 4,403 across 19 publishers. How can I verify that my SKU Library has been updated?  You can inspect the changed data in the SKU Library with the SKU Library Update Report. If you do not already have a copy of this report installed, you can obtain the latest version of the report (and installation instructions) from Flexera Software knowledge base article M100955 available from the Flexera Software Knowledge Center at  https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/SKU-Library-Update-Report/ta-p/5900 Please note to access the link it ‘Requires login to the Flexera Customer Community’. How do I report issues with SKU Library updates?  Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL processing with FlexNet Manager Suite, please send an email to your regular Flexera Software Support address: support@flexerasoftware.com (Europe & North America) support-apac@flexerasoftware.com (Asia/Pacific) The regular schedule for SKU/PURL updates  We expect the next update to the PURL & SKU Library to be available on Friday, April 23 rd  2021.  The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated daily via the Recognition Data Import task, or as otherwise reflected in your local configuration. Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by Monday, April 26 th 2021 in your time zone. Downloading the SKU/PURL Libraries Manually  The ARL and SKU/PURL library updates can be downloaded from the Flexera Product and Licensing Center (PLC 2.0).  Instructions for downloading the libraries can be located in the following KB article: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Manual-PURL-SKU-Download-amp-Importe... Monthly updates are our minimum commitment. We may also provide additional updates from time to time based on customer demand. We will continue to send email alerts to announce each update. Regards, Team Content ... View more

The SKU and Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL), used by FlexNet Manager Suite, have been updated. Flexera has enhanced Microsoft license position calculation rules in FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R2.3 to include Microsoft BYOL changes. These updates will provide bring-your-own license management for : 1) Microsoft Windows Server Standard and Datacenter editions 2) Microsoft SQL Server Standard and Enterprise editions under Azure Hybrid Benefit / License Mobility for IaaS installations hosted by cloud service providers. To complement these FNMS product changes, Content libraries have been updated with relevant changes for Microsoft Server Core and Microsoft Server/Management Core license types and these changes have been released on 19th March 2021 for On-premises customers and on 22nd March 2021 for On-cloud customers. Please refer the below community posts for more details: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Release-Blog/FlexNet-Manager-Suite-Cloud-update-for-March-April-2021/ba-p/184492 https://docs.flexera.com/fnms/EN/features/index.html#FeatureList/2020R2-3/RN-new-MSAHB-BYOL.html Regards, Team Content ... View more

Change Title Publisher name change in SKU & PUR libraries. Class 3 Customers should be aware. Change Summary Manufacturer name “CA” is being updated to “CA Technologies” in SKU and Product Use Rights libraries.   This is being made to bring consistency among all content libraries and to make sure the manufacturer name aligns with vendor’s branding and copyright. Impact This change needs to be noted by customers having licenses of CA or CA Technologies. There is no specific action required from customers. This change is expected to take place during this month's release of SKU/PURL/Bundles on 26th March 2021. ... View more

The latest SKU/PURL/Bundle build 476 released on 26 th February 2021 is not yet updated on US and EU clouds. On-premise customers accessing the cab files from PLC 2.0 may have trouble updating to build #476. There has been an issue observed that the imports are failing due to insertion of duplicates. This issue is being looked at internally and the root cause is yet to be identified. The plan is to generate another build with the fix. We hope for this issue to be fixed soon and will continue to provide updates. P.S - Here is the release notes of SKU, PURL & Bundle updates build 476 ... View more

The SKU, Bundles and Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL), used by FlexNet Manager Suite, have been updated. For on premise customers the SKU/PURL libraries have been published and are now available.  Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by the Recognition Data Import task and be available on Monday, March 1 st 2021 in your time zone.  What's new in this release Over 8,650 new SKUs have been added. The following table provides an overview of the number of SKUs with respect to publisher:  Serial # Manufacturer Newly added SKUs 1 Kaspersky 5631 2 Adobe 1457 3 Solarwinds 704 4 Microsoft 265 5 Others 635 Total   8,692   SKU library information are as follows, Total number of SKUs in the library is 2,052,656 across 758 publishers. Total number of PURL templates is 3,416 across the datacenter publishers. Total number of published Bundles is 4,395 across 19 publishers. How can I verify that my SKU Library has been updated?  You can inspect the changed data in the SKU Library with the SKU Library Update Report. If you do not already have a copy of this report installed, you can obtain the latest version of the report (and installation instructions) from Flexera Software knowledge base article M100955 available from the Flexera Software Knowledge Center at  https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/SKU-Library-Update-Report/ta-p/5900 Please note to access the link it ‘Requires login to the Flexera Customer Community’.   How do I report issues with SKU Library updates?  Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL processing with FlexNet Manager Suite, please send an email to your regular Flexera Software Support address: support@flexerasoftware.com (Europe & North America) support-apac@flexerasoftware.com (Asia/Pacific)   The regular schedule for SKU/PURL/Bundle updates  We expect the next update to the PURL & SKU Library to be available on Friday, March 26 th  2021.  The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated daily via the Recognition Data Import task, or as otherwise reflected in your local configuration. Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by Monday, March 29 th 2021 in your time zone.   Downloading the SKU/PURL/Bundle Libraries Manually  The ARL and SKU/PURL library updates can be downloaded from the Flexera Product and Licensing Center (PLC 2.0).  Instructions for downloading the libraries can be located in the following KB article: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Manual-PURL-SKU-Download-amp-Importe... Monthly updates are our minimum commitment. We may also provide additional updates from time to time based on customer demand. We will continue to send email alerts to announce each update. Regards, Team Content ... View more

Flexera has enhanced Oracle license position calculation rules in FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R2.1 to include Oracle software licensing in the cloud computing environment under BYOL.  These updates will enhance the license position calculation of Oracle Database Enterprise and all Standard editions running in the public cloud and licensed to use Oracle Processor Or Named User Plus license metric under Oracle BYOL use rights for the authorized public cloud. To support these changes in Content libraries, we have now released few SKU/PURL updates with the required changes in PURL for Oracle NUP and Processor metrics. Please refer the below community posts for more details: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Blog/Oracle-Software-BYOL-Licensing-in-Authorized-Cloud-Environment/ba-p/174753 https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Release-Blog/FlexNet-Manager-Suite-Cloud-update-for-February-2021/ba-p/178296 ... View more