To find vCenter device names, the FlexNet Beacon's remote VMware inventory process locates all licenses associated with a vCenter server. It then populates the names of any linked devices from the licenses found as vCenter device names. The names...
If a beacon is misconfigured, you may receive a red bar error when opening the Beacon page in Flexera One ITAM or FlexNet Manager Suite. This error is often caused due to a beacon being set as its own parent. In the log, it shows an error like the f...
Synopsis This article covers how to configure replication on beacons to save copies of agent files when they are uploaded from the beacon. This can be useful to allow inspection of details in uploaded files, or gathering files for troubleshooting pu...
Problem We're having issues installing the Az and Az.ResourceGraph Powershell modules for the FlexNet Beacon's Azure connector. We're unable to install these modules with the Powershell Install-Module command, or are having issues when trying to. We...
Problem: On our Batch Processing Server (which also has the FlexNet Beacon installed), we see third-party inventory tasks hanging in the 'Import into Staging' state on the System Tasks page. Explanation: Third-party Inventory tasks (such as...
Description: This Knowledge base article will advise the customer who has Beacon AWS inventory connection by using configuring Connections to AWS using IAM Roles. The AWS External ID value is case-sensitive. Any incorrect case value could cause the ...
Summary Inventory Beacons running in a proxy environment require both inventory settings and MSIE configuration. Synopsis Configuration of the FlexNet Beacon software (that operates on an inventory beacon server) is normally completed by the installe...
Summary: After upgrading from version x to a newer version. You might choose to upgrade your beacon or agent manually. Once this has been done, there is a chance, or you noticed that the agent or beacon downgrade from the most recent version to a...
Symptom When loading the Beacon Interface you might be presented with the following: There are a few things that could be causing this Issue 1: The license file has not been imported into FNMS Workaround: First you will need to make sure you hav...
Symptoms A Discovery and inventory rule scheduled task staying in a state of ‘in progress’ in a multiple beacon configuration There are 2 known issues related to this: Issue 1: Targeting over different subnets This issue stems from the way the batch ...
Prerequisites Parent Beacon InstalledParent Beacon initially ConfiguredChild Beacon Installed Configuring Child Beacon to Point to Parent Beacon Get configuration XML Open a FNMS in a web browser, and navigate to Discovery & inventorySelect Beacons u...
