Dear All,
I have the following requirement from a customer regarding the inventory gathering process .
FYI : we are using FlexNet inventory agent in devices
Regards,
Junaid Vengadan
Jun 30, 2020 02:20 AM
Hi @emtmeta ,
As I know you don't have the option to create 2 separate inventory schedule, it's only one when you say from which our to start the inventory , for example you say inventory is on daily basis starting from 12:00 and the time window is 6 hours, so in this time window the agent will start randomly the upload process, it's frustrating that you have only one scheduler, I know, the same is for me also.
Regarding targets, you have the option to create targets to assign the group to one beacon or to other beacon, to create target when you you update your system, based on OS, or ip, or subnet.
Regarding missed update, yes, there is an option to run the as soon as possible when the agent is available or to wait for the next upload window.
Jun 30, 2020 03:27 AM
Jun 30, 2020 04:25 AM
And if you will use only the core of the agent (ndtrack), you will not have any policy automatically downloaded, also in case of future update of the agent, you will need to plant and use your deployment tool, also you need to take into consideration if you use oracle inventory with agent capability in case of future update of the oracle capability that is provided via policy you will need to deploy that update on servers.
Jun 30, 2020 05:50 AM
Thanks a lot for your feedback .
i need your feedback on the below requirement , in gathering inventory , logs, evidences etc from inventory devices with in a fixed time period as follows
Create tasks and schedule them as follows .
task 1 : Start both flexera services
Wait for 30 minutes
task 2 : Run all Missed task which may not triggered by task 1 (like inventory gathering, policy updates , upload )
Wait for 60 minutes
Task 3 : Stop two flexera services
My doubt is what all process will run in task1 and this task will be enough to trigger all inventory agent process ?
if not, which all process we need to include in task 2
Most importantly , this practice is advisable ?
Regards,
Junaid
Jul 01, 2020 02:21 PM
Hi @emtmeta ,
I found your approach very complicated and holds a lot of variable.
For example, you have 4 tasks in the Flexera:
The only tasks that you can control from WebUI is Generate inventory
So if you have for example the time window for Inventory generation between 00:00 - 06:00, the server will in this random time frame generate the inventory, after he will wait for Upload Client Files, task to upload, this can vary from server to server, from a few minutes to a few hours.
Going back to your proposal, for example you start the services at 14:00 and keep it up to 15:00, it's out side of Generate inventory task, may be in this time window you will trigger the Update machine policy, but I think inventory will be not generated, unless you manually trigger the task generate inventory and trigger to upload client files.
I found this approach very tricky and unreliable, I would use the core of the inventory and generate and force to upload to a beacon server, downsize if that you don't have a fail over list of beacons, no policy update, no automatic agent update.
This is my opinion, may be other experts have other solutions.
Jul 03, 2020 05:35 AM
Hi Juanid,
Simply stopping and starting the two Windows Services related to the Flexera agent is not recommended. There is a number of reasons:
If you want to trigger the Flexera agent manually, the best practice for Windows is using the "Task Scheduler" for running the 'ndtrack.exe' with command line parameters as documented in the "Gathering FlexNet Inventory" document.
Additional limitations of running the Flexera agent (ndtrack) manually are:
Jul 03, 2020 11:28 AM - edited Jul 03, 2020 11:31 AM