How to Direct Inventory Beacon to Flexera FlexNet Manager Cloud UAT Server

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Summary

This article will give you instruction to an Inventory Beacon Cloud solution, how to direct it and connect to Flexera UAT server (https://uat.flexnetmanager.com/).

Synopsis

In FlexNet Manager Cloud solution, you download the Installers for Inventory beacon from button Download beacon', No matter this installer is downloaded from Production Server website (https://www.flexnetmanager.com) or UAT server website (https://uat.flexnetmanager.com/). After installation, by default it will connect to production server when user click 'Download Configuration' from Beacon program -> 'Flexnet Manager Suite' tab.

Discussion

If you want to force this inventory beacon connect to UAT server, do the following steps:

1. Close Inventory Beacon UI if it's turned on
2. Run regedit to access to registry key, Go to 'ManageSoft Corp'->'ManageSoft'->Beacon->CurrentVersion
3. Change the value FNMPWEBUIURL from default 'https://www.flexnetmanager.com/Suite' -> 'https://uat.flexnetmanager.com/Suite' (This is the only registry value need manually changed).
4. launch Beacon UI -> 'Flexnet Manager Suite' tab and click "Download Configuration" button
5. Browser should lead you to the UAT URL : https://uat.flexnetmanager.com
6. you may be asked to input user/password to access UAT server, ( be aware UAT and Production user/password may not be the same based on your initial setup)
7. Once URL reaches "Configure a Beacon' page, create a friendly name and Click 'Download configuration' button to donwload a new configuration file (with UAT info & different TenantUID value)
8. Once the config file is downloaded, back to Beacon UI -> 'FlexNet Manager Suite' tab -> click 'Import' button to import this new config fire.
9. Save and close the Beacon UI, go to Registry key , you can verify 'ManageSoft Corp'->'ManageSoft'->Beacon->CurrentVersion-> BeaconServicesEndpoint value has corresponding changed after importing new config file (previous 'https://beacon.flexnetmanager.com' should be updated to 'https://beacon-uat.flexnetmanager.com'

Done!

(Please Note, this method is also applicable to customer on EU server.  The corresponding URL will be 'https://www.flexnetmanager.eu/Suite' -> 'https://uat.flexnetmanager.eu/Suite'  in step 3 above.)