December 2011 (BBCA Software License Usage feature)

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Agenda: Conference Call Information
1. Upcoming CM-UG Events
All CM-UG calls unless otherwise noted will use
2. Dec 2011 discussion details the following dial in information:
3. Screenshots of Software License
Compliance feature in 8.2 US Conferencing Number: 1 800 504 8071
4. Issues/Concerns
7-Digit Access Code: 4461126
5. User Interaction
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January User Group Call
Wednesday January 18th, 2012 - 1PM Eastern / Noon Central
Monthly Feature: Matrix/BMC leading call this month
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Potential Meeting Topics/Demos
Open to presentations from CM-UG Members and Vendors.
– Member Presentations:
– Stopping channel shopping (Josh L) Suggest a topic:
– Custom inventory scanning (Jason M)
– Custom Reporting interfaces
– Custom ARS interfaces If you have a topic you
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– Vendor Presentations:
monthly feature please
– Marimba 8.2 Roadmap (BMC)
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December 2011 discussion details
SQL/Reports to find corrupt tuners
• Craig/CSC:
• Machines with no inf svc version reporting in, shown below in RC:
• No versions = potentially corrupt
• Do not forget you may not be getting inventory at all from corrupt tuners.
• Do not forget you may have more than 1 infra svc URL due to ports/etc
• Also see query listed on BMCDN
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December 2011 discussion details
ISM Topics:
TIP: Add User_view to the ISM/HM tables/views, allows for some nice reports in Report Center
ISM use for endpoints – no one reporting in on the new version.
ISM RFE’s: Devendra will check rfe status
• Blacklist certain Infra Items – Ignore Test/Personal TX’s/CMS/etc
• Clear the history in ISM - ISM Schema manage
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December 2011 discussion details
8.1.0.008 Release date is expected to be Jan 2012.
Anyone using the Tuners service protection feature?
No comments
How to configure the mirrors to forward scanner data to another Transmitter
closer to the database?
See page 74 – 5c
Discussed options for securing channels including:
• Subscribe Permissions
• Hiding/showing channels on TX
• Hiding map.txt file
How is channel ADVERTISE used
Shows option to install in channel manager, not Windows Add/Remove programs.
Celestix Device fails to insert its own inventory reported
• Checking the INVTree
• Also known celestix does not report RAM amounts correctly on some versions
• scanner.always.full=true?
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Software License Compliance feature
Nice standalone BBCA feature as seen on an 8.2 environment
SLC Channel =
http://products.marimba.com/Current/Version8/SoftwareCompliance?start
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Software License Compliance feature
Manually enter
licenses or upload
CSV file with
detailed counts.
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Software License Compliance feature
Group / Ignore
Report based on filters.
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› BMC Developer Network
Please register an account on the new BMC developer network.
These forums are very nice and provide a single place now for all BMC products.
BBCA Forums
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