I've done some testing with Provance and BDNA Normalize that looked promising but I didn't get really far into it. That could potentially reduce those 4000 titles dramatically.
________________________________ John Marcum Sr. Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ________________________________ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Presley, Dow Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:33 AM To: servman@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [servman] Experience with Provance Software Asset Management I am hoping someone can share their experience with using Provance Software Asset Management in Service Manager. We recently went from having about 6 titles in our software asset management in Provance to > 340. Ever since we have added all of these titles our Service Manager system has been sluggish and unstable. As usual it is hard to say definitively whether our sluggish system is definitively tied to the increase in software titles. The one thing that I have been able to confirm is that this has resulted in our grooming workflows going from running in around 15 minutes to taking many hours, sometimes running into mid-morning of our workday. This is caused because Provance's best fit licensing algorithm is creating 40000+ objects per night that then have to get groomed out. Provance has confirmed this and they say they will fix this in the next major release. It is not fixed in the most recent release, Provance CU4. Unless I come up with something in the next couple of days I am probably going to have to dump these software titles from my system to see if I can get performance back to normal. Has anyone else added a lot of software title's into Provance Software Asset Management? If so, have you had any issues? If you had any issues did you figure out something to mitigate the issue? I appreciate any input that anyone could provide. Thanks, Dow Presley Exterran ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer. ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer.
