[BESAdmin-Announcements] LMT and BFI application update 9.2.10 is now available!
Announcements for BES Administrators
besadmin-announcements at bigmail.bigfix.com
Tue Dec 19 02:31:57 PST 2017
IBM BigFix Inventory and IBM License Metric Tool application update 9.2.10
is now available.
This update contains features that extend software discovery and enhance
license reporting. The key features include:
· Reporting usage of products such as Microsoft Office at suite level
aggregated per computer (BigFix Inventory only)
The Usage per Computer report shows product usage aggregated per
computer so that you can easily identify where the product is
deployed and how frequently it is used. For product suites such as
Microsoft Office, the usage is reported for the entire suite rather
than separately for Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other components.
By default, the report is calculated regularly after every import,
but you can also configure it to be calculated on demand.
Benefits: You can easily verify whether the product is used and how
often. Based on this information, you can decide whether you want to
extend the license for this product or not.
· Enhanced capability to generate and retrieve reports of SAP license
metrics utilization (BigFix Inventory only)
This application update provides an end-to-end automation process for
scheduling generation and retrieval of SAP license utilization
reports by leveraging the provided ABAP plugin. Once the SAP license
utilization reports are processed by BigFix Inventory, the related
SAP license usage data is available on the Resource Utilization
report.
Benefits: The process of measuring utilization of SAP license metrics
can be handled entirely by the Administrator of BigFix Inventory.
· Information about imported part numbers that influenced the initial
classification is visible on the Software Classification panel
Part numbers that are available on Passport Advantage represent
products that you purchased and license metrics that these products
use. When you upload part numbers to BigFix Inventory or License
Metric Tool, they affect the default assignment of components.
Information about part numbers which caused that a component was
assigned to a product is now displayed on the Software Classification
panel.
Benefits: You can see which part numbers caused that a component was
assigned to the particular product. It gives you a better
understanding of rationale behind the default classification that was
proposed.
· New REST API for advanced integration and data sharing
A new REST API makes it possible to retrieve utilization of supported
license metrics, query and set license threshold values as well as
query and set values of custom fields. The new REST API is located at
api/sam/v2/license_usage.
Benefits: The new REST API facilitates integration with CMDB and
Asset Management Systems.
· Extending license coverage by adding products to the software catalog
(BigFix Inventory only)
You can easily add a custom product and the license metric that it
uses to the software catalog. You can then assign the relevant
components to this product so that your software classification is
correct.
Benefits: You can facilitate the process of software classification
by assign components to the product-metric pairs according to your
license terms.
· Discovery support for Docker containers under Red Hat OpenShift
BigFix Inventory supports software discovery on Docker containers
under the Red Hat OpenShift container application platform.
Benefits: You can use BigFix inventory to discover software in one of
the emerging cloud technologies.
· Introduction of the Outdated VM Manager Data status to provide a
warning that outdated capacity data might affect license usage
reports in the future
When hardware inventory data is not retrieved from a VM manager for
more than 30 days, default PVU counting is applied and higher
utilization might be reported. To allow the Infrastructure
Administrator to troubleshoot problems with VM manager connection
before they affect the reports, the Outdated VM Manager Data status
is introduced. The status indicates that there are problems but
license metric utilization is not yet affected.
Benefits: You are notified about problems with VM manager connections
before they affect the reports which gives you more time for
investigation and troubleshooting.
· Discovery of new components from HP, SAP, BMC and other (BigFix
Inventory only)
The software catalog is extended to discover several new components
HP, SAP, BMC and other. To discover the components, ensure that you
upload the software catalog published in December 2017, and upgrade
BigFix Inventory to version 9.2.10.
Below is the list of the newly added components. To learn about their
exact versions, use the Software Catalog widget in BigFix Inventory
to browse the catalog content.
· Added discovery capability for HP products
o HP Application Lifecycle Management
o HP Business Process Monitor
o HP GlancePlus
o HP OpenView Internet Services
o HP OpenView Performance Agent
o HP-UX Image Viewer Subsystem
o HP-UX LAN Link Product
o Mercury Business Availability Center
o Mercury Interactive Quick Test Professional
· Added discovery capability for SAP products
o BusinessObjects Enterprise
o Crystal Reports .NET Server
o SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence
o SAP Crystal Reports
o SAP SQL Anywhere Network Database Server
o Sybase PowerDesigner
o Sybase Software Developer Kit
· Added discovery capability for BMC products
o BMC Atrium Orchestrator
o BMC Batch Impact Manager
o BMC BladeLogic RSCD Agent
o BMC Control-M Agent
o BMC Control-M CM For Advanced File Transfer
· Added discovery capability for CA products
o CA Erwin Data Modeler
o CA Application Management .NET Agent
o CA ARCserve Backup Diagnostic Utilities
o CA Clarity and Portfolio Management
o CA ControlMinder
o CA eHealth
o CA Erwin Data Modeler License Server
o CA Erwin Mart Server
o CA Plex
o CA Process Automation Orchestrator
o CA SiteMinder
o CA SiteMinder Web Agent
o CA Spectrum
o CA Unicenter CA-XCOM Data Transport
o CA Unicenter DSM Agent + Remote Control Plugin
o CA Unicenter NSM
o CA Unicenter Software Delivery
o CA Universal Job Management Agent
· Added discovery capability for Tibco products
o Tibco ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database
o Tibco ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Service Engine
o TIBCO Designer
o Tibco Hawk
o TIBCO iProcess Workspace
o TIBCO Spotfire
o TIBCO Third-Party Core Libraries
· Added discovery capability for Veritas products
o NetBackup Bare Metal Restore
o NetBackup for Microsoft Exchange Server
o NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
o NetBackup for SAP
o NetBackup for Vmware
o NetBackup Remote Administration Console
o Symantec System Recovery
Benefits: More visibility into deployed products and components and
better license management without the need to develop custom
signatures.
Deprecated content
The IBM Software Classification panel was deprecated and substituted by the
Software Classification panel. Application update 9.2.10 is the last update
in which the deprecated panel is still available. It will be entirely
removed in the next update.
Action to take
To learn how to get the application update and deploy it as well as to view
the full list of new features and APARs that were fixed in this application
update, see the following links:
BigFix Inventory: http://ibm.biz/bfi_update_9210
License Metric Tool: http://ibm.biz/lmt_update_9210
During the upgrade, new versions of the software catalog and PVU table are
uploaded. The versions that are uploaded are the newest ones that were
available during the release of the application update to which you are
upgrading.
Questions
If you have any product-related questions, please post them on one of the
following fora:
http://ibm.biz/BFI_Forum
http://ibm.biz/ILMT_Forum
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