<html><body><p><font size="2" face="Arial">IBM BigFix Inventory and IBM License Metric Tool </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">application update 9.2.10</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"> is now available.</font><p><font size="2" face="Arial">This update contains features that extend software discovery and enhance license reporting. The key features include:</font><br>
<ul><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Reporting usage of products such as Microsoft Office at suite level aggregated per computer (BigFix Inventory only)</font></b><ul><br><font size="2">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.</font><p><font size="2">By default, the report is calculated regularly after every import, but you can also configure it to be calculated on demand.</font><p><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits:</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"> 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.</font></ul><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Enhanced capability to generate and retrieve reports of SAP license metrics utilization (BigFix Inventory only)</font></b><ul><br><font size="2">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.</font><p><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits:</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"> The process of measuring utilization of SAP license metrics can be handled entirely by the Administrator of </font><font size="2">BigFix Inventory. </font></ul><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Information about imported part numbers that influenced the initial classification is visible on the Software Classification panel</font></b><br>
<ul><br><font size="2" face="Arial">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.</font><p><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits:</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"> You can see which part numbers caused that a component was assigned to the particular product. It gives you </font><font size="2">a better understanding of rationale behind the default classification that was proposed.</font></ul><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">New REST API for advanced integration and data sharing </font></b><ul><br><font size="2" face="Arial">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.</font><p><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits: </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">The new REST API facilitates integration with CMDB and Asset Management Systems.</font></ul><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Extending license coverage by adding products to the software catalog (BigFix Inventory only)</font></b><br>
<ul><br><font size="2" face="Arial">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.</font><p><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits: </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial">You can facilitate the process of software classification by assign components to the product-metric pairs according to your license terms.</font><b><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font></b></ul><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Discovery support for Docker containers under Red Hat OpenShift</font></b><ul><br><font size="2" face="Arial">BigFix Inventory supports software discovery on Docker containers under the Red Hat OpenShift container application platform.</font><p><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits:</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"> You can use BigFix inventory to discover software in one of the emerging cloud technologies.</font></ul><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Introduction of the </font></b><b><i><font size="2" face="Arial">Outdated VM Manager Data</font></i></b><b><font size="2" face="Arial"> status to provide a warning that outdated capacity data might affect license usage reports in the future</font></b><ul><br><font size="2">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 </font><i><font size="2">Outdated VM Manager Data</font></i><font size="2"> status is introduced. The status indicates that there are problems but license metric utilization is not yet affected. </font><p><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits: </font></b><font size="2">You are notified about problems with VM manager connections before they affect the reports which gives you more time for investigation and troubleshooting. </font></ul><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Discovery of new components from </font></b><b><font face="Calibri">HP, SAP, BMC and other</font></b><b><font size="2" face="Arial"> (BigFix Inventory only)</font></b><ul><br><font size="2" face="Arial">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.</font><p><font size="2" face="Arial">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.</font><p><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Added discovery capability for HP products</font><ul><ul><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">HP Application Lifecycle Management</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">HP Business Process Monitor</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">HP GlancePlus</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">HP OpenView Internet Services</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">HP OpenView Performance Agent</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">HP-UX Image Viewer Subsystem</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">HP-UX LAN Link Product</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Mercury Business Availability Center</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Mercury Interactive Quick Test Professional</font></ul></ul><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Added discovery capability for SAP products</font><ul><ul><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">BusinessObjects Enterprise</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Crystal Reports .NET Server</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">SAP Crystal Reports</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">SAP SQL Anywhere Network Database Server</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Sybase PowerDesigner</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Sybase Software Developer Kit</font></ul></ul><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Added discovery capability for BMC products</font><ul><ul><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">BMC Atrium Orchestrator</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">BMC Batch Impact Manager</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">BMC BladeLogic RSCD Agent</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">BMC Control-M Agent</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">BMC Control-M CM For Advanced File Transfer</font></ul></ul><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Added discovery capability for CA products</font><ul><ul><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Erwin Data Modeler</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Application Management .NET Agent</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA ARCserve Backup Diagnostic Utilities</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Clarity and Portfolio Management</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA ControlMinder</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA eHealth</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Erwin Data Modeler License Server</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Erwin Mart Server</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Plex</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Process Automation Orchestrator</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA SiteMinder</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA SiteMinder Web Agent</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Spectrum</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Unicenter CA-XCOM Data Transport</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Unicenter DSM Agent + Remote Control Plugin</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Unicenter NSM</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Unicenter Software Delivery</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">CA Universal Job Management Agent</font></ul></ul><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Added discovery capability for Tibco products</font><ul><ul><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Tibco ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Tibco ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Service Engine</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">TIBCO Designer</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Tibco Hawk</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">TIBCO iProcess Workspace</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">TIBCO Spotfire</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">TIBCO Third-Party Core Libraries</font></ul></ul><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Added discovery capability for Veritas products</font><ul><ul><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">NetBackup Bare Metal Restore</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">NetBackup for Microsoft Exchange Server</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">NetBackup for SAP</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">NetBackup for Vmware</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">NetBackup Remote Administration Console</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier New">o </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Symantec System Recovery</font></ul></ul><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Benefits:</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"> More visibility into deployed products and components and better license management without the need to develop custom signatures.</font><p></ul></ul><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Deprecated content</font></b><p><font size="2" face="Arial">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. </font><p><p><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Action to take</font></b><p><font size="2" face="Arial">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:</font><p><font size="2" face="Arial">BigFix Inventory: </font><a href="http://ibm.biz/bfi_update_9210"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">http://ibm.biz/bfi_update_9210</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><p><font size="2" face="Arial">License Metric Tool: </font><a href="http://ibm.biz/lmt_update_9210"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">http://ibm.biz/lmt_update_9210</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><p><font size="2" face="Arial">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.</font><p><p><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Questions</font></b><p><font size="2" face="Arial">If you have any product-related questions, please post them on one of the following fora:</font><p><a href="http://ibm.biz/BFI_Forum"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">http://ibm.biz/BFI_Forum</font></u></a><p><a href="http://ibm.biz/ILMT_Forum"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">http://ibm.biz/ILMT_Forum</font></a><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><BR>
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