Cut Azure licensing costs

Visualize Azure license utilization

vScope 3.6 comes with a new available product – vScope Cloud Spend. It introduces new resources to vScope including new Dashboards, analysis and Properties pages. vScope Cloud Spend aims to highlight the most important insights about your Azure licensing.

Without any prerequisites, you will quickly be able to view reports about eg. license utilization and configurations to help you cut costs and ensure compliance.

View Azure license plan activity

The new Properties pages serves as an automatic report about all License plans and provides you with all information you need to cut license costs.

Quick insights on a dedicated dashboard

Instant access to valuable information about license configurations and utilization.

Drill down on Users

Understand user configurations and activity with information from both Azure AD and on-premises AD…

…combined with information about what licenses the users are assigned to:

Learn more

• vScope Cloud Spend Product Page

Introducing Discovery schedules and smarter inventory

Discovery Manager has been completely redesigned and now offers much more flexibility and customization to the core feature of vScope – World leading IT inventory.

Introducing Schedules – Discover what you want, when you want

With schedules you can make vScope scan any range or platform at different times during the day. Perfect for remote branches, multiple AD updates every day or just weekly inventories of larger networks.

Improve performance with actionable suggestions

Make your Discovery run better with help of suggestions generated from your Discovery’s actual performance.

Easier to troubleshoot

Select Discovery schedule and a session to view detailed information about that discovery. With filters you will be able to quickly find improvements and misconfigurations.

Streamlined setup with Smart Targets

Smart Targets are designed to help you to faster increase the coverage of your Discovery scope. With help of smart algorithms vScope will now automatically classify targets (from eg. vCenter, Active Directory etc.) into various platforms. Assign a credential to these Smart Targets and let vScope do the magic for you. Smart Targets are marked Green in Discovery Manager.

Learn more

• The Key Concepts of Discovery Manager

Additional news

Updated Properties Page for Hosts

vScope 3.6 brings the power of relationships into the Properties page for virtualization hosts. Quickly find out any dependencies of other resources in your IT.

New bundled Dashboard for better overview of certificates

Have a look at the latest dashboard. Designed for instant overview of your certificates.

Improvements

Overall

• The properties page for User Accounts got a face lift alongside the other the other Properties pages
• You can now open a resource in Table Explorer directly from its Properties page. A nice little feature, hidden in the “hamburger menu”
  
• Hiding “Veeam Backup Last Run” from timeline on Properties page. Don’t want to flood the history with information
• Various UI improvements (like changing button text from “OK” to “Next”. Nothing big really)
• Added “hop” from user account resource to its corresponding domain
• Added more external links to guides in eg. “Adding SMI-S” view
• Added tag for custom attribute Department Number on User Accounts

vScope Billing

• Fixed some broken links to external content
• New price tag for “HDD Total Used”

Analysis – Tracker Cases

vScope Cloud Spend

• Of course vScope comes with bundled analysis for your Azure licenses

Various bug fixes

• Issues when activating new license and dashboard not showing same information as Tracker
• VeeamServers now shows the proper Type values (eg. VMwareVirtualMachine)
• Some performance fixes that optimize the speed of loading content into vScope
• IIS not showing in Discovery Wizard

vScope 3.6.1

Add price bundles to price groups

Include price items in a group offer by bundle any quantity. In the latest version of vScope Billing you can deduct costs from the billing summary by using the new bundling feature.

Advanced skip list option

Add custom skip lists to you Discovery scope including notes and what platforms to ignore during Discovery.

Improved control of Main Schedule

Detailed view of what’s scheduled in the Main Schedule.

New Properties page for databases

The latest version of Properties page focus on highlighting important relationships.

Improvements

Guidance that empowers sound decisions

vScope now warns whenever a user makes a not very thoughtful decision eg. adding a very large range to the Discovery. It’s okay but you should know what you are doing.

Bulk import of skip list targets via API

Due to the new skip list functionality we’ve also added support to bulk import skip list targets. Contact us for more information.

Shimmering effect of Discovery progress bar

Need to mention it at least. It is nice!

Overall improvements

• Suggestions can now link directly to the right view in Discovery Manager
• Start discovery button is now muted if no credentials/targets are added to Discovery Manager
• Auto-select the latest Discovery session in Discovery results tab
• Custom number of threads on proxies directly in Discovery Manager
• A nice star for favouriting a Dashboard has been added.

Various bug fixes

• Fix for rescanning machine from Properties page
• Added new credential when other credentials were inactive resulted in that the new credential did not show up
• vScope Billing – Price items with same name was merged, that has been fixed
• Fix for Get tag from related resource: All Machines => Services
• Fix for Get tag from related resource: Organizational unit => User Group
• Broken Relationships link on IIS sites page
• Incorrect text wrapping on properties pages

Do you have any questions about this release?

Email us at customersuccess@infrasightlabs.com and we’ll happily tell you more.