Spider LCM Release Notes. Issue: 01.12

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1 Spider LCM+ 3.1 Release Notes Issue: 01.12

2 Copyright Brainware Consulting & Development AG All rights reserved This document and all of its parts are protected by copyright. All rights reserved, especially the right of translation, presentation, reproduction, copying in photomechanical or other ways and the storing on electronic media. Notwithstanding the accuracy which the texts, illustrations and programs have been created with, neither Brainware Consulting & Development AG nor author, editor or translator can assume liability or legal responsibility for possible mistakes or their consequences. The common names, trade names, names of goods, etc. can be trademarks even without special identification and therefore be subject to legal requirements. Product version 3.1 Document version 00 Document title Production Printing and processing Spider LCM+ 3.1 Release Notes Brainware Consulting & Development AG Brainware Consulting & Development AG Publication date / 00 / eng Brainware Consulting & Development AG Sumpfstr. 15 CH-6300 Zug [email protected] / 00 / eng 2/8

3 Content 1.1 Documentation System Requirements Setup Before you start / 00 / eng 3/8

4 Release Highlights 0 Release Highlights The following chapter outlines the most important feature improvements of Spider Lifecycle Management LCM+ Version 3.1 when compared to the Columbus LCM+ Version 3.0. Generally The LCM+ 3.1 Version is based on the latest "Spider Releases" Core Asset Licence Contract New features Main Menu My Licences, My Maintenance, My Products are displayed in the group My Licence Workplace. Spider Core Employee survey results New is the Employee survey results displayed on the Employee Object (Region 3). Datagrid The data grid on the bottom of the employee has been expanded to include the areas: Assets, Personal Assets, Function Unit, Function Unit responsible, Licence responsible, Maintenance responsible, Product responsible and Contract responsible Spider Asset Legal Entity Availability of Legal Entity also in the LCM+ Version. Asset Services Asset Services has been completely redesigned. The license calculation has a better performance and can now be started also manually. Cluster System Cluster system is a new type of functional unit (FU) and is used to describe a cluster system. Datagrid The data grid on the bottom of the assets has been extended / 00 / eng 4/8

5 Release Highlights Spider Licence Legal Entity Availability of Legal Entity also in the LCM+ Version. Integration of Product Catalog. When using the product catalog many products and versions are selectable. This acquisition is easier and improves quality. Possibility to use the Article Catalog. The article catalog containing the commercial data of the products, e.g. SKU-No., commercial product name, etc. Note: This catalog is a third party product and can be subscribed to. Roaming Roaming can be distributed licensing rights to the underlying business units (Legal Entities). The distribution is done automatically, when the business units are connected and the roaming is activated. Licence Allocation For a conscious distribution license, which is controlled by a manual process, the Licence Allocation function is available. Licence Metrics Procedures (LMP) The following Licence Metric Procedures are integrated: Device based, Company based, Concurrent user based, Concurrent-Device based, Core based, CPU/Processor based, Named user based and User based. Product and Product Version The graphical interface of product and product version is redesigned. Responsible person (commercial) The responsible person (commercial) may be entered on the object product. Responsible person (technical) The responsible person (technical) may be entered on the object product. Compliance A compliance overview is displayed in the datagrid of the product object. Product version All license-related data were grouped (in Region 2). Licence create (standard) or Licence create via catalog The license can be created directly from the product version site. Product version change With the help of this wizard, licenses can be moved to other product versions. Licence The graphical interface of Licence is redesigned. License key The license key can now be stored on the object license. SKU-No. The name of the field SKU-No. has been changed too Article-No. Article text is a new field. New register Additional Info. In this register you can store information about the responsible person, the reference licenses and the licence status. Checkbox Roaming To activate the roaming feature / 00 / eng 5/8

6 Release Highlights Maintenance Maintenance can be created directly from the Licence site. Datagrid The data grid on the bottom of the license has been extended to include maintenance. Maintenance There are two new fields: Article-No. and Article Text. Quantity Quantity is a mandatory field. Multi Licences More than one licence can be allocated too one maintenance. Compliance report Compliance reports can be created in different forms: Compliance Roaming coverage Downgrade coverage Basic coverage Spider Contract Spider Contract has the same design as the modules Asset and License. Renaming of attributes. Language Pack has been revised. Functional changes in Contract are marginal / 00 / eng 6/8

7 Release and Usage C H A P T E R 1 1 Release and Usage Usage Instructions The installation can only be done by Brainware or Spider Consulting. This release is not available in the Brainware download area. 1.1 Documentation The user manual has been integrated in the product. At this time only the German documentation 3.1 is available. 1.2 System Requirements Columbus LCM+ works with SQL server express edition or SQL server full version 2005/2008. The SQL server express edition is part of the delivery. The Express Edition has the following limitations: maximum 1 CPU (but all CPU cores) maximum MB RAM maximum 4 GB per DB SQL Server Agent is not available. Columbus LCM Enterprise The prerequisite for the enterprise version is SQL Server 2005/ Setup The same Setup is usable for the initial installation, as also for update from the version 3.0. The Setup will be usable only with a valid licence key. For more information see the installation manual. Important The update based on a clean LCM+ installation 3.0. On all other installation the setup is not tested and can cause irreparably damage! / 00 / eng 7/8

8 Migration Instructions C H A P T E R 2 2 Migration Instructions The following chapter outlines important information for the migration of existing Columbus Asset+ environments. Please read carefully before installing the release in your production environment. 2.1 Before you start Any software migration brings with it a level of risk. We strongly recommend starting with a Backup from the existing Asset + database Migration The installation and migration can only be done by Brainware Consulting or by a Brainware partner / 00 / eng 8/8