Compliance Management
App Broker Cloud leverages asset management data from FlexNet Manager, including product use rights and license entitlement data, to ensure proper governance and compliance over the request and installation of software. Licenses are reserved during the request process.
If you have purchased FlexNet Manager Suite, you can use App Broker Cloud to manage application licenses.
Linking a Catalog Item to Flexera ID
In the New Catalog Item page, catalog items can be associated with Flexera ID for respective applications.
App Broker Cloud Can Reserve Licenses
After App Broker Cloud is connected to FlexNet Manager Suite and an application's Flexera ID has been selected, whenever an end user requests that application, App Broker Cloud automatically connects to FlexNet Manager Suite and request that an application license be reserved for that end user.
License Scope
To display a more accurate count of available licenses at the time a user requests an application from App Broker Cloud, you can use the Enterprise Group assignment data defined in FlexNet Manager Suite to determine available application license count for respective users.
You can specify that when determining available license count for a user, you want FlexNet Manager Suite to return the number of licenses that are available in the user's Enterprise Group rather than those available to the entire enterprise. This capability enables license reservation and consumption based on group ownership and permits the roll-up of license quantities for specific groups (cost centers, business units or locations).
After the catalog item is mapped to a Flexera ID, you can specify how FlexNet Manager Suite determines the available license count for this catalog item by making a selection from the Select the licensing availability scope list.
| • | Global—When determining available license count, FlexNet Manager Suite returns the number of licenses that are available to the entire enterprise. |
| • | Enterprise Group—When determining available license count, FlexNet Manager Suite returns only the number of licenses that are available to that user or computer. |
| • | Enterprise Group First Then Global—When determining available license count, FlexNet Manager Suite first checks the number of licenses that are available to that user or computer; then, if no license is available, FlexNet Manager Suite returns the number of licenses that are available to the entire enterprise. |
Advance License Check
These additional license rights are evaluated at checkout before a license is reserved. This solution helps ensure that your organization evaluates all key entitlement rights and does not mistakenly purchase more license entitlements that you require.
App Broker Cloud gives users the ability, at a more advanced level, to check if a license reservation is needed for a catalog item by evaluating the following during checkout:
| • | Right of second use (also known as portable use)—The right to use the software on both a desktop and a laptop with the same owner and only consume one license. |
| • | Upgrade rights—The right to use the latest version of the software as soon as it becomes available. |
| • | Downgrade rights—The right to use an older version of the software than the version purchased. |
| • | Exemption by device role rights—The right to install software based upon a subscription role, such as an MSDN subscription. |
App Broker Cloud Release NotesOctober 2020 |