View Terminated status for Microsoft Azure short-lived cloud instances

FlexNet Manager Suite version 2024 R1.4

From this release, Microsoft Azure hosted short-lived cloud instances imported into FlexNet Manager Suite by way of a locally installed agent, but not reported by the Microsoft Azure adapter, will now be marked as Terminated in the Last known state column on the Cloud Service Provider Inventory page.

There are cases when short-lived cloud instances are not reported by the Microsoft Azure adapter as these instances may have been removed from the Microsoft Azure portal due to auto scaling created by the Virtual Machine Scale set. Prior to this release, short-lived cloud instance inventory data imported into FlexNet Manager Suite by the FlexNet Inventory Agent, lead to a massive increase in the number of short-lived cloud instances that were able to consume a license.

In such cases when the instance is not reported from the Microsoft Azure adapter, short-lived cloud instance inventory data imported into FlexNet Manager Suite by the FlexNet Inventory Agent will now automatically be marked as Terminated and have no future impact on license consumption calculations. In addition, a new column called Scaleset name which states the name of the virtual machine scale set that the instance belongs to has been added to Cloud Service Provider Inventory page.

In total, there are six scenarios which determine the status of the Last known state column on the Cloud Service Provider Inventory page, three of which will result in a Terminated status. The table below details six data import cases and their corresponding outcomes.

Data import cases	Outcome
Short-lived cloud instance inventory data reported by both the FlexNet Inventory Agent, and Microsoft Azure adapter.	Normal behavior as it is now.
Short-lived cloud instance inventory data reported by the FlexNet Inventory Agent, but not reported by the Microsoft Azure adapter.	Only instance inventory data reported by the FlexNet Inventory Agent for subscriptions managed by the Microsoft Azure adapter is marked as Terminated in the Last known state column.
Short-lived cloud instance inventory data reported by the FlexNet Inventory Agent, but the Microsoft Azure adapter has not been configured.	Normal behavior as it is now.
Short-lived cloud instance inventory data is not reported by either source.	Marked as Terminated in the Last known state column.
Short-lived cloud instance inventory data is reported by both sources, but previously marked as Terminated.	Normal behavior as it is now.
Short-lived cloud instance inventory data is reported by the FlexNet Inventory Agent, but previously marked as Terminated.	Marked as Terminated in the Last known state column.

For more information about inventory gathered from cloud service providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud instances), see Cloud Service provider Inventory in the Online Help.