IT Asset Management version 2019 R2.3
For software as a service (SaaS) applications, Flexera One SaaS Management is a great tool
for managing your license subscriptions, related usage, and so on. This release of
IT Asset Management provides a straight-forward connector that lets you bring
all your SaaS license overviews into the 'single pane of glass' where you manage all
your software assets.
Once authorized, the connector imports all relevant data from Flexera One SaaS Management
into IT Asset Management each night, updating local license records to show the
latest entitlements, and including these in the nightly license consumption
calculations. Each of these imported licenses, 'mirroring' the ones you created in
Flexera One SaaS Management, includes a hyperlink that allows you to switch back to the
original license records for any needed adjustments. You may also choose to add
information to the licenses in IT Asset Management, such as customizing the license
name (perhaps adding "from FSM" for ease of grouping and recognition), linking contracts
or purchases (for information only, since the real entitlements are imported nightly
from Flexera One SaaS Management), adding management owners and the like. Such details are
preserved through each night's imported update.
This single connector obsoletes three earlier SaaS connectors (although these also remain
available for customers who have not licensed
Flexera One SaaS Management):
- Microsoft Office 365 (deprecated)
- Microsoft 365
- Salesforce.
If you have been previously using any of these connectors, new documentation in the
FlexNet Manager Suite Inventory Adapters and Connectors Reference PDF
document (linked from the title page of online help) steps through best practice
housekeeping to make the switch to the
Flexera One SaaS Management connector and optionally
remove any license duplication. As a precaution, the first import from your authorized
connector to
Flexera One SaaS Management automatically marks any licenses from those earlier
connectors with a status of
Retired, so that from that
night forward, the old license records no longer have any effect in the nightly license
reconciliation. From that point on, everything is driven through your
Flexera One SaaS Management records, conveniently visible from within
IT Asset Management.
The only prerequisite for this connector is that you have licensed
both products. Since both are cloud applications, configuration is as simple as setting
a check box in the
Integrations tab of the
System
Settings page of
IT Asset Management.
Tip: Managed
service providers (MSPs) running their own instance(s) of IT Asset Management
who wish to offer integration with Flexera SaaS Manager must upgrade at least one
Internet-facing stand-alone inventory beacon to version 14.3.0 or later, and
implement the Flexera One SaaS Management connector on that inventory beacon as
another PowerShell-based connector.
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