Foundation/CloudScape

Hello,

Background, I have done a number of discoveries over the years but generally they have been smaller or more targeted to migration planning and DD work.  I am running a very large global discovery that has many private 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 and 10.0.0.0 subnets.  There are over 30k devices and ~7k (or more) expected targets for discovery.

1. I have used many /16 summarized subnets (e.g. 10.1.0.0/16) to make it easier to coalesce in the RN150 interface and capture all currently undocumented subnets and targets.
   • Outside of the obvious oversize/time issues, are there any Flexera based issues that I should be aware of or scanning gaps that the summarizing might cause?  I have noticed some inconsistencies on what gets discovered in the same overall summarized network and the more directed /24 subnets.
   • When /16 subnets are added to scope, does Flexera end up seeing the actual and smaller subnets (i.e. /24 etc) and add them to the scanned subnets group?  I have seen inconsistencies and/or lack of clarity about this.
   • Regarding subnets and locations, as anybody has done this for a large network knows, it is extremely painful and manual to move subnets/locations in the portal. 
   • There seems to be a feature called out whereas these locations can be auto-grouped via the SNMP mechanism to the network devices.  I have the SNMP configuration for the network devices but this subnet to location definitions do not seem to work.  Note, I am not referring to the subnet discovery option in the assessment Appliance settings.  Is there something I should be aware of to get this properly configured?
2. I have been running through various subnet entries and scans to confirm and validate issues we have run into, if a subnet is not currently selected for scanning, does that then automatically configure said subnet to be flagged as “Out-of-Scope”? 
   • I assume this is flagged when Build App Stacks is executed but I would have assumed that if the subnet is still within the RN150 subnets list (just not activated) it would not change the in or out of scope labelling.
   • Similarly, there does not appear to be any rhyme-reason to systems that show in the “No Connectivity” group where there obviously is when there is an IP, hostname and Device Type listed.
3. Any experienced tips/tricks on managing large and dispersed networks for ongoing Flexera Cloudscape/Foundation discoveries?

Thanks for your advice.

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Hi all,

Flexera has updated our product naming of the Foundation and Cloudscape platforms to better reflect their respective functionality. You will now see:

• Foundation as ‘Business Service Discovery’
• Cloudscape as ‘Migration Planning’

You will see this new naming convention reflected in all existing and future documentation and reference.

Hello team.

Customer's InfoSec team are refusing to allow domain administrator/local administrator to be used for collection of Windows devices, they want the user to be used with the least privileges.

How to create such custom user/group with minimum needed privileges, knowing that these privileges are not only the WMI classes but also the ability to run remote command (like netstat, ipconfig, .. etc)

Can you assist us in providing the steps for creating such custom domain user/group with the needed permissions on the active directory.

Thanks.

Hi Team,

Please help with the issue.