FlexNet Manager Forum

Solved Cluster - Host & VM Affinity State

When selecting "Virtual Devices and Clusters" and looking at the "Cluster Properties" a tab becomes visible: Affinity Rules. Within the Affinity Rules a Column "Affinity State" is visible, representing either yes or no. What does this value mean? ye...

Solved Discovery task fails due to issue on MGSIPSCAN.exe

Hi , We are on FNMS multitenant environment, i have upgraded the beacon to 2022R1 version. After upgrading the beacon, vcenter inventory rule fails at discovery stage. on checking the logs we received the below failure. It seems like there is some is...

Solved What is the Pre-requisites of upgrading Flexnet manager suite 2019 R2 to 2022 R1

Hi Experts,We are planning to upgrade our Flexnet manager suite 2019 R2(On-premises) to Flexnet Manager suite 2022R1. Is it is good practice to upgrade it directly by skipping the previous versions. If yes what are the other pre-requisites that must...

Solved Uninstall Evidence Type - Cleanup

To remediate the overconsumed license, one of the method is to uninstall the unlicensed applications from devices. I observed whenever uninstallation is performed on any inventory devices, the evidence type changes from "MSI" to "Uninstall". For few ...

Force Beacon and Agents to Use Locally Cached CRL instead of the CRL Distribution Point

Is it possible to force the beacon or agents to use a locally cached copy of the certificate revocation list or is the beacon required to have access to the remote CRL distribution point? I know you can set the registry key to disabled revocation c...

Solved Export a report automatically

Hi,I don’t have access to SQL Server and I would like to consume FLX data with power bi…Is it possível export reports automatically using FNMS? Save in a Network folder? Any idea to help me? Business adaptor?I need a csv.

Reminder: July SAM Best Practices Webinar: Management of containers (inventory, license compliance) (July 7th 10:00 AM US Central)

Check in the Community Hub the next SAM Best Practice Hub. Virtualization keeps evolving to offer more flexibility to IT organizations in their use of infrastructures and applications. Container currently have great traction and offer a real time ap...

Solved IBM requirements for FNMS to be used in lieu of ILMT

Hi, I was wondering whether anyone can provide any guidance as to what IBM's requirements are in order for FNMS to be used in lieu of ILMT for IBM PVU sub-capacity reporting eg. is there a requirement to be on the N (or N-) version of the FNMS platfo...

Software metering SCCM

We import our inventory data from SCCM. For some applications we see the usage information (through License -> consumption -> Device License details report), but for other applications we don't see any usage information. Does this usage data come fr...

Lease information not being populated in main asset form.

Asset is being linked to an existing lease but the lease information(Lease Number, Start Date, End Date) are not being populated in the asset financial tab for asset details. I can show the asset is linked to the lease by searching for the lease an...