Mar 24, 2020
12:39 PM
New Policies
AWS Long Running Instances checks for instances that have been running for a long time and may be able to be terminated or upgraded.
Azure Old Snapshots checks for snapshots on Azure that may be able to be deleted.
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Mar 11, 2020
06:01 PM
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Great idea, and something that we expect to be exploring later this year. Particularly, the ability to get policy incident/violation/assessment data from 3rd party systems but be able to track them all centrally through the Flexera portal and use that to take action to resolve issues. I've noted your interest in this feature and you can expect that we'll reach out as we start to do exploration on this topic.
Thanks for the feedback.
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Mar 11, 2020
06:00 PM
Hey Michael - we currently have this on our backlog but don't have an ETA right now. We're also likely to see this functionality in our SaaS Manager product. If you're not familiar with that part of Flexera, I highly recommend you reach out to your CSM or account manager and get a briefing.
Thanks for the feedback.
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Mar 03, 2020
12:32 PM
New Features
Credential manager now supports native creation and editing of credentials for Azure Resource Manager, Azure Enterprise Agreement, and Google cloud. These native editors simplify the process of creating and updating credentials for those services.
The API for managing credentials is now publicly available. Automate the process of connecting services and rotating creds by leveraging this set of API calls.
Changes to Existing Features
Improved success and error messages when managing credentials
Selected credential information is now available when viewing applied policies
Improved experience when editing credentials
Simplified credential editing screens for AWS credential types
New Policies
AWS Unattached Volumes checks for old volumes that can be deleted using the AWS APIs directly.
Google Unattached Volumes checks for old volumes that can be deleted using the Google APIs directly.
Google Old Snapshots checks for old snapshots that can be deleted using the Google APIs directly.
Changes to Existing Policies
Budget Alerts was updated to provide a more accurate assessment of current month costs against the specified budget amount.
Billing Center Cost Anomalies was updated to help reduce noise by allowing for a minimum spend amount before billing centers are reported on.
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Jan 17, 2020
05:41 PM
New Features
Policies now have credential management built-in to the product, making it easier to connect your different clouds for policy governance. Along with the feature release, many policies have been upgraded to use the new credential capability (see below). Check out the docs to learn more. Some of the benefits include:
Simplified experience to connect clouds for policy governance
Ability to rotate credentials without affecting running policies
Support for new credential types including AWS Cross-Account Roles and NTLM
Reduced overhead when dealing with multiple cloud accounts
Policy designers can now specify a default frequency value in their policies, simplifying the process of applying a policy for their users.
New Policies
An on-premises version of AWS EC2 Instances not running FlexNet Inventory Agent
An on-premises version of Azure Instances not running FlexNet Inventory Agent
An on-premises version of FlexNet Manager Licenses At Risk
An on-premises version of Schedule FlexNet Manager Report
Changes to Existing Policies
The following policies have been updated to support the new method of credential management mentioned above:
AWS EC2 Instances not running FlexNet Inventory Agent - Cloud
AWS Inefficient Instance Utilization using CloudWatch
AWS Open Buckets
AWS Rightsize RDS Instances
AWS Unused RDS Instance
Azure Inefficient Instance Utilization using Log Analytics
Azure Instances not running FlexNet Inventory Agent - Cloud
Azure Long-Stopped Instances
Azure Rightsize SQL Databases
Azure Subscription Access
FlexNet Manager Licenses At Risk - Cloud
Google Inefficient Instance Utilization using StackDriver
Schedule FlexNet Manager Report - Cloud
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Jan 08, 2020
01:14 PM
Hello, currently the response for Users.show does not include the principal_uid field, so there is no way to show that value today in the API. https://reference.rightscale.com/api1.5/resources/ResourceUsers.html#show
If that is important to you, please describe your use case in detail (a private message can be used if needed) and we can document it as a feature request.
Thanks.
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Dec 10, 2019
03:06 PM
New Policies
Disallowed Cloud Images reports on any image usage outside of the specified approved images.
SaaS Manager - Suspicious Users creates an incident when Flexera SaaS Manager detects suspicious users logging into SaaS applications.
SaaS Manager - User Status Change identifies users whose status changes to inactive in Flexera SaaS Manager.
SaaS Manager - Renewal Reminder identifies applications with upcoming contract renewals.
Office 365 Security Alerts surfaces security alerts of a user-specified severity level that have been raised in Office 365.
SaaS Manager - Unsanctioned Spend creates an incident when Flexera SaaS Manager identifies unsanctioned spend on SaaS applications.
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Nov 19, 2019
04:55 PM
New Policies
AWS Long-Stopped Instances checks for instances stopped longer than the specified period of time and terminates the instance after user approval.
Google Long-Stopped Instances checks for instances stopped longer than the specified period of time and terminates the instance after user approval.
Changes to Existing Policies
Azure Rightsize SQL Databases was renamed and now can take action to resize the SQL Database after user approval.
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Nov 19, 2019
04:54 PM
New Policies
AWS Savings Plan Recommendations uses the AWS Cost Explorer to raise incidents if AWS recommends any Savings Plan purchases where the savings is more than the specified threshold.
AWS EC2 Instances not running FlexNet Inventory Agent reports on any instance running in EC2 that does not have the FlexNet Inventory Agent installed.
Azure Migrate Integration collects the resources from a RISC Foundations assessment and seeds Azure Migrate with the discovered servers.
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Nov 19, 2019
04:54 PM
New Policies
Azure Regulatory Compliance provides an overview of the regulatory compliance controls and compliance scores from Azure Security Center
NetFlow Top Talkers uses RISC Foundations data to identify the top communication routes for each application stack to external dependencies based on network traffic patterns.
Application Migration Recommendations analyzes RISC CloudScape data and provides recommendations for migrating application stacks to the most cost effective cloud provider.
Changes to Existing Policies
Inefficient Instance Utilization using RightLink was renamed for clarity and now supports VMWare instances through the use of RCA-V.
Scheduled Report now provides additional options for the timeline of spend visualization when running this policy.
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Nov 19, 2019
04:53 PM
New Policies
Running Instance Count Anomaly checks for changes in the count of instances running in a specific account over the prior 30-day period and alerts you if the count has crossed the specified threshold.
AWS Unencrypted ELB Listeners (CLB) checks for any CLBs that are unencrypted and sends an alert.
AWS Unencrypted ELB Listeners (ALB/NLB) checks for any ALBs or NLBs that are unencrypted and sends an alert.
Monthly Actual v. Budgeted Spend Report allows you to specify a budget amount for a given billing center and be altered if the spend crosses that threshold.
AWS Disallowed Regions reports on any instance usage in regions that you specify as disallowed, allowing for termination of the instances after user approval.
Azure Unused SQL Databases checks for unused Azure SQL Databases, based on DB connections, and deletes the database after user approval.
New Service Usage reports on any new service usage in the current month that did not exist in the previous month, based on billing data.
Changes to Existing Policies
Azure Subscription Access was modified to account for more than 100 users and to only gather subscription-level role assignments.
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Nov 05, 2019
11:40 AM
1 Kudo
Great ideas Alex! We're making some changes to the way that policies and associated credentials are organized that might help this use case. Once we flesh out the details, I'll reach out and we can talk about how the changes might help address this request.
Thanks for the feedback!
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Oct 14, 2019
03:15 PM
Changes to Existing Features
Policies can now be configured to run on a monthly interval for use cases that require less frequent checks. Simply choose the monthly option under policy schedule when applying your policy.
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Oct 08, 2019
05:18 PM
New Policies
Azure Instances not running FlexNet Inventory Agent checks for any instances in Azure not running the agent so that you can ensure full license coverage across your compute landscape.
FlexNet Manager Licenses At Risk provides a report of all licenses at risk according to FlexNet Manager.
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Sep 30, 2019
04:12 PM
Changes to Existing Policies
Multiple policies were modified to include a manual approval step before taking action so that items can be reviewed before being modified. Manual approval for any policy can be skipped by checking the "Skip Action Approvals" option when applying a policy.
Multiple policies were modified such that they are now limited to only being applied to only one account. This limitation is appropriate in cases where the policy uses an external credential for authentication and running the policy on multiple accounts would lead to the exact same behavior repeated numerous times.
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