Beacon Onboarding

Unified Beacon Onboarding and Configuration

We are excited to announce the unification of the beacon onboarding and configuration process for beacons across IT Visibility and IT Asset Management customers within the TI Platform. This is a significant milestone towards enhancing the user experience and reducing the time required to set up inventory collection. Going forward, customers can download a single unified beacon installer and follow a single standard process to configure it for collecting inventory.

What is unified beacon onboarding and configuration?

Previously, customers with both IT Asset Management and IT Visibility would have to download the configure their beacons in separate places. We have unified and simplified the beacon onboarding process as part of a multi-phase effort to combine and improve the functionality for inventory collection across capabilities.

What has changed in the existing functionality?

There is a ‘Common Beacons’ page under ‘Data Collection > Common Inventory Tasks’ which has a new ‘Create Beacon’ page which allows you to create and register both ITAM as well as ITV beacons. If you have both ITAM and ITV capabilities, you should chose the ITAM option from the dropdown. If you just have ITV, then you should chose the ITV option from the dropdown.

The unification is currently limited to beacon onboarding but will be expanded in the near future to the end-to-end beacon management functionality.

Important Notes:

• ITAM and ITV customers will now be led to the same installers page for the beacon installer.
• ITAM and ITV customers will use the same 'Create Beacon' workflow (in both online and offline beacon configuration scenarios)
• The 'IT Visibility Inventory Tasks' menu group has been renamed to 'Common Inventory Tasks' to indicate that it has common tasks and will now be visible for ITAM-only customers as well
  • The following menu items under ‘Common Inventory Tasks’ will be common to ITAM and ITV customers: External Inventory Connections, Common Beacons, Beacon Versions, Installers.
  • The following menu items under ‘Common Inventory Tasks’ will be useful only for ITV customers for now: Inventory Targets, Inventory Groups, Tasks Lists, Agent Configurations
• The 'IT Visibility Beacons' page has been renamed to 'Common Beacons' since it will contain both ITV and ITAM beacons
• The 'Beacons' page under 'IT Assets inventory Tasks' will co-exist with the 'IT Visibility Beacons' page till we merge the beacons lists and properties in a subsequent phase of the project.
• ITAM customers should continue using the existing 'Beacons' page to manage their ITAM beacons and properties (including ‘upgrade mode’ and ‘enable/disable’).
• ITAM customers will be able to reconfigure (rotate password for) their beacon using the new beacon properties page.

Release Date: July 07, 2025

Product Documentation: https://docs.flexera.com/flexeraone/EN/WhatsNew/FeatureList/ITV-ITAM-July2025-beacon.htm