ncw
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It would be a great help if TNI could open a URL which is entered in the comment field.
Such would then start your broswer and show the info in that URL. If the URL points to a SharePoint server, then one could very easily store the licenses , plus metadata, in that Sharepoint server and make it visible.
More advanced functions could for example be the following: Assume TNI had previously found 10 instances of Office2007 on the scanned net, but now it shows 11 such licenses are used. It could then start a workflow in SharePoint which alerts the SAM admin to aquire another license to get the license counts matching again. Many options possible.....
But as said, for a start it would help to be able to enter a URL in the comment field, and klick on it from within TNI.
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Thanks for the quick answer.
Any possibility to be more specific on "future versions" and "next versions" ? ;)
Regarding the use of URL's:
When using TNI in software accounting mode, there is a comment field per instance of software found in the nodes in the inventory.
It would be very nice to be able to populate this comment field with an URL , which for instance points to a sharepoint site where I have my sofware license certificates stored.
For example, TNI could tell me I am using 10 instances of Office 2003. I would then like to match that usage against a location which shows the licenses to cover this usage. This would be a rudimentary SAM (Software Asset Management) but would be a good start.
The TNI product is excellent for the inventory part but falls short a bit on Software Asset Management, which really is "connecting" owned licenses to used licenses. I hope you get my drift........I'm happy to exchange some further ideas on this subject.
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Hi,
I'm using the 1.6.0 build 1434 verion, and it's great but some features could and should be added, such as:
- BIOS custom fields (in Dell hardware specifically)
- ability to do LDAP queries to Active Directory
- ability to dump data in MSDE or SQL ?
- use URL's to point to e.g. sharepoint site where licenses are kept.
Any idea of new features, bug fixes and release scheule ?
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Update of TNI, when and what ?
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Is there any schedule for upcomming new releases or bug fix releases of the TNI product ?