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Known Issue: Users imported from SaaS Manager connections can be merged with users created from SAP connections (IOJ-2236944)

Summary Users records created based on data imported from a connection to SaaS Manager may be merged with users created based on data imported from SAP. Details If data is imported from both SAP and SaaS Manager then the FlexNet Manager Suite impor...

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Known Issue: Unnecessary high-frequency PVU inventory NDI file uploads may be triggered by agent scheduled event changes (IOJ-2236677)

Summary When FlexNet inventory agent schedule settings are changed on a managed device, a new partial inventory NDI file is generated and uploaded by the next IBM PVU inventory scan event, despite no change in hardware configuration taking place. De...

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Known Issue: Beacon installer sets App Path in registry for ndtrack.exe incorrectly (IOJ-2235433)

Symptoms Attempts to invoke ndtrack.exe on computers to gather inventory from computers with the FlexNet beacon component installed without specifying a path to the file may fail with a "file not found" type error. A common symptom is to see loggin...

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Known Issue: The lightweight Kubernetes agent incorrectly logs an inventory upload as a failure if the beacon returns an HTTP status of 201 CREATED (IOJ-2233879)

Summary When the lightweight Kubernetes agent uploads an inventory file to a beacon, the agent's logging incorrectly suggests the upload has failed if the beacon returns an HTTP 201 CREATED status code. Despite this, the inventory is actually succe...

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Known Issue: BIOS information may be missing from inventory gathered from the Linux computers if dmidecode program is not available (IOJ-2233774)

Symptoms BIOS information such as serial number, UUID, manufacturer, model, and chassis type may be missing from inventory gathered from computers running Linux operating systems by the FlexNet inventory agent if the dmidecode program is not availab...

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Known Issue: Misleading error events about cloud server provider metadata, IBM DB2, and Toad for Oracle may appear in the "ManageSoft" event log when gathering inventory (IOJ-2231885)

Symptoms Misleading error events about cloud server provider metadata, IBM DB2, and Toad for Oracle may appear in the "ManageSoft" event log on Windows when inventory is gathered. Details When the inventory agent runs to gather inventory on Window...

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Known Issue: System Tasks page behaving poorly when there are large volumes of data (IOJ-2229704)

Summary The System Tasks page in the web UI may load slowly, especially for large or busy systems with many tasks. Fix status This issue has been fixed in the following FlexNet Manager Suite releases: 2021 R1.2 / Nov 2021 (Cloud), 2022 R1 (On P...

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Known Issue: Used application details may be represented as "????" in usage MMI files if application details contains multi-byte Unicode characters (IOJ-2227649)

Summary If details such as the filename or application information retrieved from the registry about a process that is metered by the FlexNet inventory agent contains multi-byte Unicode characters, then such characters may appear in usage data as a ...

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Known Issue: Import process fails at ProcessCSPMetadataJsonBlob step after editing Reader\ManageSoft\Computer.xml with the Inventory Adapter Studio (IOJ-2163899)

Description If the Inventory Adapter Studio is used to open and save the file inventory import reader file C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Compliance\ImportProcedures\Inventory\Reader\ManageSoft\Computer.xml, subsequent executions of the inventory i...

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Known Issue: Installer evidence lacking version imported from BigFix (SQL Server) data source may lead to multiple version being recognized (IOJ-2176608)

Description When importing installer evidence from Tivoli Endpoint Manager, every version of an application can show as being installed if the evidence does not contain a version number and the display name is identical. Replication Scenario For Ti...

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Known Issue: License reconciliation failure: The INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK_SoftwareLicenseGroupPointsConsumedData_GroupEx" (IOJ-2078225)

Symptoms License reconciliation fails with an error similar to the following appearing in the importer log: 2021-10-01 09:58:10,634 [INFO ]       Calculates and updates the group's counts and rolled-up values. 2021-10-01 09:58:16,743 [ERROR]       ...

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Known Issue: ndtrack may crash with segmentation fault while gathering inventory on Ubuntu 18 on a KVM hypervisor (IOJ-2190770)

Summary ndtrack processes may crash with a segmentation fault when running on a Ubuntu 18.x virtual machine on a KVM hypervisor. The following output may be observed when running ndtrack interactively: $ ./ndtrack -t Machine Relink `/lib/x86_64-li...

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Known Issue: Test Connection button fails when configuring connection to Salesforce (IOJ-2229056)

Summary The following error message is displayed after clicking the Test connection button when configuring an inventory connection of type "Salesforce": Test connection failure - unable to retrieve Salesforce API version: sfURLParm = https://login...

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Known Issue: Test Connection button fails when configuring connection to AWS (IOJ-2219141)

Summary The following error message is displayed after clicking the Test connection button when configuring an inventory connection of type "Amazon Web Services": The value for 'Access Key' is not valid. --- Details --- PowerShell method 'Test-Co...

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Known Issue: FlexNet Inventory Agent Status page may load slowly or time out (IOJ-2220846)

Summary The FlexNet Inventory Agent Status page may take a long time to load, or fail to load at all. Cause This problem occurs because the database query used to retrieve data to populate this page may perform poorly for some types of data, especi...

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Known Issue: Oracle VM Manager inventory task fails when server is not part of server pool (IOJ-2226007)

Summary Gathering inventory from Oracle VM Manager may fail if an Oracle VM server is not a member of a server pool. Symptoms A symptom of this problem occurring is a generic generic failure result appearing in inventory rule status files similar t...

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Known Issue: Usage date format described in inventory spreadsheet schema documentation doesn't match format accepted by import code (IOJ-2227030)

Summary The documented supported format of date values related to usage data used in inventory import spreadsheets does not match the actual formats supported by the import process. Details The following pages in the Inventory Spreadsheet Templates...

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Known Issue: Random files and applications may be recognized as installed on inventory devices imported by the BMC Discovery (ADDM) connector when BMC Discovery is configured to gather file inventory (IOJ-2225964)

Symptoms When BMC Discovery (previously known as BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping, or ADDM) is configured to gather file inventory that is subsequently imported into FlexNet Manager Suite using the out-of-the-box connector, inspection of ...

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Known Issue: Installer evidence about applications that were installed in the past but are no longer installed is imported from ILMT/BigFix Inventory (IOJ-2221482)

Synopsis FlexNet Manager Suite imports installer evidence records for some application packages that some versions of the IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) and BigFix Inventory track as having been installed at some point in the past, but are not curre...

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Known Issue: When the Microsoft 365 adapter runs more than an hour to collect the usage information, the import fails with an error - access token has expired (IOJ-2198658)

Synopsis When the Microsoft 365 adapters runs more than an hour to collect the usage information, the import fails with an error like the following: 2021-05-26 12:52:16,933 [INFO ] Reading 'Computer' data from 'M365' (ver 1.0) data source 2021-0...

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