Solved: Re: Is Changing External (public) IP address of a Beacon impact Flexera communication

chirag_sharma2 · ‎Sep 03, 2020

I would like to confirm, Is there any impact on Flexera communication to Beacon if change Public IP ?

Similarly, is there any impact on Agent communication to a beacon if changed beacon's IP ?

As per my understanding, they talk via Hostname(FQDN) only

ChrisG · ‎Sep 03, 2020

As long as you really do have the agent configured to use the FQDN for all communications with the beacon, and the FQDN resolves to the correct IP address, I can't think of any negative impact on the agent from having the IP address the FQDN resolves to changing over time.

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ChrisG · ‎Sep 03, 2020

As long as you really do have the agent configured to use the FQDN for all communications with the beacon, and the FQDN resolves to the correct IP address, I can't think of any negative impact on the agent from having the IP address the FQDN resolves to changing over time.

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