In the Spotlight April 2009


The April TKU release provides 11 new product patterns taking the total to 242 products and over 15,517 discoverable software product configurations.

This page provides a few examples of how you can quickly realize value from this month's TKU release.

Product Lifecycle Data

Quickly discover instances of the following products that reach end of life status this month and next month in May.

Products Reaching End Of Life in April

Publisher

Product

Version

EOL Date

Symantec

Veritas Cluster Server

4

2009-04-13

Symantec

Veritas Enterprise Administrator

3.1

2009-04-13

Symantec

Veritas Storage Foundation File System

4

2009-04-13

Symantec

Veritas Storage Foundation

4

2009-04-13

Symantec

Veritas Volume Manager

4

2009-04-13

Symantec

Veritas Volume Replicator

4

2009-04-13

Microsoft

Exchange Server

2003

2009-04-14

Microsoft

SharePoint Server

2003

2009-04-14

Microsoft

Project Server

2003

2009-04-14

BEA

AquaLogic Business Process Management

5.7

2009-04-30

EMC

Documentum

5.3

2009-04-30

Products Reaching End Of Life in May

Publisher

Product

Version

EOL Date

Symantec

Backup Exec

10.0

2009-05-06

Symantec

Backup Exec

10.1

2009-05-06

Check Point

FireWall-1/VPN-1

NGXR60

2009-05-31

Check Point

FireWall-1/VPN-1

NGXR61

2009-05-31

Check Point

FireWall-1/VPN-1

NGXR62

2009-05-31

Check Point

Provider-1/SiteManager-1

NGXR60

2009-05-31

Check Point

Provider-1/SiteManager-1

NGXR61

2009-05-31

Check Point

Provider-1/SiteManager-1

NGXR62

2009-05-31

Increase Speed and Accuracy of Symantec Veritas License Audits

The April TKU releases introduces a new pattern for discovering Storage Foundation for Windows and an enhanced NetBackup pattern, both provide detailed discovery of license key attributes.

Storage Foundation for Windows

This new pattern discovers instances of Storage Foundation along with license key attributes such as Enabled Options, Edition, License Type, License Key and Expiry Date.

storage_foundation_windows_license_detail.JPG

NetBackup Options

The enhanced Symantec Veritas NetBackup pattern now has more versioning methods: registry method on Windows platform and using active command, configuration file and package versioning on Windows and Unix platforms. In addition new features of Foundation 7.2 have been applied to discover all activated NetBackup options and agents, license key and expiry date.

netbackup_agents_details.JPG

netbackup_License_key.JPG

 

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