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Mitigate slowness or timeouts when importing Active Directory .actdir files

This article contains instructions and scripts that you can use to help mitigate the following known issue: Active Directory data may not be updated due to the import process for .actdir files timing out (or taking a long time) at the "Reconciling Computers" or "Reconciling Organizations" step (IOJ-2250105)...

Jellou Level 5 Flexeran Feb 28, 2023

FlexNet Manager Suite FNMS FNMS On-premises

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Freeware vs Commercial Edition

Symptoms: You may start seeing Adobe Acrobat Reader DC freeware deployments being recognized as Adobe Acrobat DC Continuous or some form of commercial deployment in FNMS. Diagnosis: Recently, Adobe has made changes so that their Acrobat Reader DC ...

Jellou Level 5 Flexeran Jul 06, 2022

Acrobat Adobe Adobe Reader FlexNet Manager FlexNet Manager Cloud FlexNet Manager Suite FNMS FNMS Cloud FNMS On-premises

FlexNet Manager Best Practices calls Presentations

This article will be published in a best practices section of the community. Stay tuned!

nrousseau1 Level 9 Flexeran Dec 11, 2020

Best Practices FNMS

InstallCognos.ps1 script fails if service account is a member of an AD group that doesn't exist

Description The InstallCognos.ps1 script fails with the following error when the service account is a member of an AD group that doesn't exist. ERROR: The Flexera Analytics install script failed: An error occurred while enumerating through a collect...

by shirase Flexera Alumni Sep 18, 2020

Bug Defect Report Error Message FlexNet Manager Suite 2018 R1 FlexNet Manager Suite 2018 R2 FlexNet Manager Suite 2019 R1 FNMS

Beacon Downgrade from manual upgrade

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...

mcavanagh Level 6 Flexeran Sep 18, 2020

Beacon downgrade FlexNet Manager FNMS How To version

How to inventory FlexNet Beacons

We might find that we want to inventory every machine in our working environment including the FlexNet Beacon server. Although, It is not advisable to install beacon and agent in one server, for they share some registry keys and system configuration...

JJacildo Level 5 Flexeran Jun 30, 2020

Associated Products FNMS FNMS Cloud FNMS Inventory How To inventory beacon Question

Reconnecting to a new database when it has been moved to another server

Synopsis This article assumes that you have already stood up a server with SQL server, and have moved the database to that server. This article will cover the re-connection from your old connection settings to the new instance. Resolution There a...

mcavanagh Level 6 Flexeran Jun 25, 2020

database FlexNet Manager Suite FNMS new database relocate database relocation

Scheduled Task - Beacon showing In-progress

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 ...

mcavanagh Level 6 Flexeran Feb 04, 2020

Beacon configuration Defect Report FNMS in-progress multi-beacon task

3 Main Ways to Secure Your FlexNet Manager Application Server

Summary Because FlexNet Manager can run on a wide range of IIS versions and with varied configurations, the on-premises installation process performs only a minimal functional configuration for IIS. This means that you should ensure that the configu...

by pwesthorp Flexera Alumni Aug 20, 2019

Application server FNMS security

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