The BigFix Inventory Development Team is pleased to announce that a new drop of theBigFix Inventory beta is available!
1. Creation of custom classification rules
When you are assigning a component, or excluding a product, you can create a custom classification rule that will be applied when the same component or product is discovered in the future. It allows for automating actions on analogical components or products, and facilitates the process of software classification.
2. Utilization of the virtual core based metric for Microsoft SQL Server
BigFix Inventory measures utilization of the virtual core based metric for Microsoft SQL Server. You can use this information to calculate the demand for Microsoft SQL Server licenses. The feature is supported for versions 2012, 2014, and 2016 (Standard and Enterprise edition).
3. Utilization of the Install Instances metric for IBM products
The All Metrics report is extended to include information about the utilization of the Install Instances metric for IBM products. You can see not only the current number of installed product instances, but also how that number changed over time. You can also set a threshold, to easily monitor when the number of installed instances exceeds your expectations.
4. Overview of license metrics that are used by IBM products in your infrastructure
The All Metrics report is extended to include not only products with license metrics for which utilization is calculated, but also all other IBM products in your infrastructure. Even though metric utilization might not be calculated for these products, it gives you an overview of all IBM metrics for which you should have licenses.
5. Checking matched part numbers on the Software Catalog report
The Software Catalog report is extended with information about your part numbers that were matched with the part numbers that are contained in the software catalog.
6. Support for new operating systems and virtualization technologies
You can use Xen Hypervisor, and Oracle VM as supported virtualization technologies on selected operating systems.
More information
For information about enrolling to the beta program, and more details about each feature see: https://ibm.biz/beta_program.