Release notes and notices

• Version 4.0.01 is a minor release delivered only for additional security.
• The product has been upgraded to the Java 1.8 platform enabling usage of JavaKeyStore for securing deployment details.
• It has enhanced encryption algorithm and communication between Java and Perl platforms.

• Support has been added for:
  • MyIT 3.1 to 3.3
  Current product upgrade support has been added for:
  • BMC Discovery (ADDM) 11.1
  • Remedy AR System Server (ARS) 9.1.02
• German input characters and numerals are allowed in server username and password fields for:
  • Remedy AR System Server (ARS)
  • BMC Client Management (BCM)
• BMC BladeLogic Network Automation (BNA) report enhancement to show "Total Device Count" in order to provide clarity on license usage
• For BSA 8.2 to 8.6 and Remedy AR System Server (ARS):
  • The license utility is shipped with two additional shell scripts in order to set the home variable, located in the following directory:
    • \Program Files (x86)\BMC Software\LicenseUsageCollector\licenseusagecollector\ENvVariableScripts

• Support is now available for:
  • German OS and system locale
  • Windows 10

• Two new products have been added:
  • Release Process Management (RPM) – 4.6.00 to 5.0.00
  • BMC Release Package and Deployment (RPD) – 4.8.00 to 5.0.00
    
    For a complete list of supported integrations with other BMC products, see .Integrating v3.5.00. 

• Current product upgrade support has been added for:
  • BladeLogic Server Automation - BSA 8.8 and 8.9
  • TrueSight Capacity Optimization – TSCO 10.7

• User Interface (UI) changes for improved customer experience
  • A tooltip has been added to the Email Reports button (License Report tab) to notify users to select the record(s) from the Select All column
  • The “Current License Report Run” label (License Report tab) has been changed to "License Report Run Notes"
  • The following note has been added to the Manage Deployment tab: “LU supports: English input language characters, numerals and special characters”

  • BSA 8.7 has been changed to 8.7 to 8.9

• The UI has been updated to enhance usability, including button and drop-down colors. See the Getting started topic.
• The BNA report has been updated to correspond to the report in the BNA product.

July 21, 2016

2.5.00 enhancements

• Support has been added for BMC Performance Manager Portal 2.11 
• You can now enable email notification of reports with SMTP. See Enabling email notification of reports with SMTP.
• For BSA, ARS, and BPM Portal, you can now install the license utility and the BMC product on the same Windows computer. See Adding deployments
• Documentation enhancements and changes
  • Version 2.5.00 wiki docs and PDF have been added
    (Version 2.0.00 and 1.6.00 wiki docs have been maintained as separate spaces.) 
  • The following topics have been added:
    • 2.5.00 enhancements
    • Enabling email notification of reports with SMTP
  • The screenshots in the Getting started topic have been updated with the following:
    • The SMTP Configuration tab has been added

• Support has been added for BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization 10.5 (TSCO)

• Corrections for BSA 8.2 to 8.6 reporting has been added. See the following topics:

  • • Upgrading
    • Configuring environment settings
    • Adding deployments
• You can now schedule license reports. See Scheduling reports
• Documentation enhancements and changes
  • Version 2.0.00 wiki docs and PDF has been added
    (Version 1.6.00 wiki docs have been maintained as a separate space.) 
  • The following topics have been added:
    • 2.0.00 enhancements
    • Upgrading 
    • Server clustering information in reports
    • Scheduling reports
  • The screenshots in the Getting started topic have been updated with the following:
    • The License Report tab has been updated to show the Execution Method column (Manual or Auto)
    • The Schedule reports tab has been added

December 15, 2015

1.6.00 enhancements

• The Report File Prefix field has been added to the Manage Deployments form where you can enter the server name. This will be automatically appended to the report file name. See Adding deployments.

• The Email Attachment File Prefix text box has been added to the License Report tab. This enables you to append a prefix to the file name, such as your organization's name, so that you can easily find the file in your default email client mailbox. See Emailing reports.

• When reports are generated by the License Utility, a CSV file is created from the BMC product's native file. The License Utility internally converts the native file format (for example, XML or HTML) to the CSV format. See Running reports.
• Documentation enhancements and changes
  • The Release notes and notices and Known and corrected issues topics have been updated
  • A table listing the supported BMC products for the BMC License Usage Collection Utility 1.6.00 has been added to the Integrating topic
  • The Language information topic has been added
  • The screenshots in the Getting started  topic have been updated

May 19, 2015

1.0.00 enhancements

• Installation
  • The installer includes a license for easier installation
  • The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is included with the utility, eliminating the need to install/upgrade the existing JRE installed on user computers
  • As part of the initial setup and prerequisites, an automated copy process was added for BMC product-specific script files 
  • A new feature was added to encrypt/decrypt credentials
  • New user interface

    • See the Quick tour of the new UI with screenshots in the Getting started topic.

      • New robust and feature-rich user interface
      • License Report and Management Deployment tabs
      • New Help tab to provide user documentation 

• Deployments
  • Add, edit and delete deployments with real-time connectivity test and validation for a given user session

• • Test existing deployments to ensure data validity at any point of time 
• Reports 

• • You can run license usage reports on: ADDM, ARS, BDA, BNA, and BSA

• • You can run reports for deployments hosted on both Unix/Linux and Windows platforms
  • When running license usage reports, you can:
    • • Select single, multiple, or all deployments 
      • Select various duration times (start and end dates for the report time frame)
      • View real-time status messages while the report is running