Jan 20, 2021
01:54 PM
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Hi @rwiltshire I would recommend a tiered approach to beacons. If possible, then operate a central beacon within the GCP and all agents report their data to it. The central GCP beacon is then connected to your DMZ or intranet beacon via only one necessary firewall rule. A normal configuration. When it comes to agent deployment, I think it depends on how dynamic your environment is. If VMs are only active for a short time and then deleted again, then the results of the inventory may be wrong and have an impact on your balance. Here I would recommend a solution like the AWS/Azure Connector. On the one hand, the inventories are determined by the agent (agent in the template incl. first start after deployment) and, on the other hand, the infrastructure data (status of the VMs, similar to the vCenter Adapter) is determined. Based on this information, inventories that are no longer in the structure are cleaned up. You can find more information about the procedure in the documentation. https://docs.flexera.com/FlexNetManagerSuite2020R2/EN/InvAdapConn/index.html#adapters/Azure/topics/Azure-AgentInventoryExInst.html Terminated instances are a special case.
1.Before termination, the running instance may have had an inventory device record (provided that it was reporting inventory).
2. When you terminate the instance, Microsoft Azure keeps the terminated instance visible through the API for about an hour, and if you have implemented your Azure PowerShell connector on an inventory beacon with the default 30 minute schedule, the termination is imported through the connector, and the record in the CloudServiceInstance table is updated with the terminated status. (This record, with its terminated status, is visible in the Cloud Service Provider Inventory page, if you set the filters on that page appropriately.)
3. At the next full inventory import (by default, overnight, immediately before the license compliance calculations), any inventory device record linked to a terminated instance is deleted, because you do not want terminated instances consuming from your licenses.
4. Of course, the terminated instance no longer reports inventory; but its previously-recorded inventory is still in the inventory database (and in normal processes is not cleaned up for a while). Although the next full import (typically the next night) normally imports records from the inventory database, for terminated instances this is prevented by the terminated flag in the CloudServiceInstance table. This prevents the deleted inventory device record from reappearing. Best, Dennis
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Nov 09, 2020
04:21 PM
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Hi, this function/feature was added in the June 2020 cloud release (https://docs.flexera.com/fnms/EN/features/index.html#FeatureList/2020R1/RN-chg-UseForMatchingReq.html) Check page 209 in the BAS manual so get detailed information about the "UsedForMatching" Checkbox (https://docs.flexera.com/fnms/EN/WebHelp/PDF%20Documents/Cloud/UsingFlexNetBusinessAdapters.pdf) You've to define one or more values to identifiy the object in the database to update object data. Best, Dennis
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Oct 07, 2020
05:46 AM
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Hi Community, by default a unix agent uses the following path "/var/opt/managesoft/etc/ssl/cert.pem" to check for SSL certificates. We would like to switch over from a dedicated file deployed via "mgsft_rollout_cert" to a certificate path where the Unix admin will maintain all certificated in a global way (based on the recommendations by Flexera, name of the file, ...). https://docs.flexera.com/FlexNetManagerSuite2020R1/EN/GatherFNInv/index.html#SysRef/FlexNetInventoryAgent/topics/PMD-SSLCACertificateFile.html Is it sufficient to specify the parameters for the SSLCACertificatePath via mgsconfig and the agent will look into the second location too? /opt/managesoft/bin/ mgsconfig -i /var/tmp/tempconfig.ini tempconfig.ini [ManageSoft\Common\CurrentVersion] SSLCACertificateFile=/opt/global_cert/cert-xxx.pem Thanks and Best, Dennis
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Oct 07, 2020
02:59 AM
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Hi @Vishal I would say yes, because the agent uses the ping only to prioritize the possible beacons (https://docs.flexera.com/FlexNetManagerSuite2020R1/EN/GatherFNInv/index.html#SysRef/FlexNetInventoryAgent/topics/NetSel-SuppliedAlgors.html). If the ping fails, the beacon will only get a lower priority, but will still be used. Decisive is only whether the agent can reach/resolve the URL "https://Server-FQDN/ManageSoftRL". Just try it and post the logs in case of problems (C:\Windows\Temp\ManageSoft) Best, Dennis
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Oct 07, 2020
02:38 AM
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Hi @bmaudlin could you please post some log file of a fresh installed agent running into this issue? C:\Windows\Temp\ManageSoft ... (Installation.log, upload.log) an your mgssetup.ini. Thanks and Best, Dennis
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Oct 07, 2020
02:35 AM
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Hi @rclark0 detailed information for Unix and Windows can be found here: https://docs.flexera.com/FlexNetManagerSuite2020R1/EN/GatherFNInv/index.html#SysRef/FlexNetInventoryAgent/tasks/FA3-CustomUNIXSetup.html https://docs.flexera.com/FlexNetManagerSuite2020R1/EN/GatherFNInv/index.html#SysRef/FlexNetInventoryAgent/tasks/FA3-CustomSetupIni.html If you miss any information, let us know and we'll answer your questions in this post. Best, Dennis
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Oct 07, 2020
02:32 AM
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Hi @JonStrong , as @kclausen said, there is only a new agent version with every release change. As an alternative you could check the following sources to see if a new version is available there. Personally, I think it is a bit "over the top", because normally in the context of an FNMS update you should establish a process which should look at the agent update process on the different sources. On each Beacon you can find the latest packages in this folder: "C:\ProgramDate\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\Packages\Flexera\Adoption" or check the database table "SELECT * FROM AvailablePackage" for the latest version. Best, Dennis
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Oct 05, 2020
01:46 PM
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based on the recommendation (for testing only) of @adrian_ritz1 , here are the necessary commands. ndtrack.exe -t machine -o Upload=True -o UploadLocation=https://server/ManageSoftRL -o CheckServerCertificate="False" -o CheckCertificateRevocation="False" Please also check that the complete certificate chain of the beacon server can be resolved by the agent and/or that the certificates are available in the store. Best, Dennis
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Oct 02, 2020
02:19 AM
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Hi, problem solved after running a normalization job. Unfortunately, the behavior is a bit confusing, because you expect the reports to be available immediately after the updat. Best, Dennis
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Oct 01, 2020
04:53 AM
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Hi Teamand & community we've updated to the latest release of DP AC/UC v5.5.33, but I'm missing the mentioned 9 new interactive reports. (http://docs.bdna.com/patchset/RN_5.5.33_UC.pdf, Change ID 32789). Have any of you already installed the update and can see these reports? For example, if you search for "Sprawl", only the "Technology Sprawl KPI Dashboard" report will appear. Thanks and Best, Dennis
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Sep 26, 2020
08:24 AM
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Hi, last week we've updated the customer system up to 2020 R1 On-Prem and the issue is now gone. Best, Dennis
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Aug 19, 2020
08:37 AM
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Hi @EHacking depending on your settings in "Inventory data". We've set "FlexNet Manager Suite" as primary (should be default) and fine with the results https://docs.flexera.com/FlexNetManagerSuite2020R1/EN/WebHelp/index.html#topics/Sys-DataInputsInvTab.html The primary connection has priority for the import of hardware inventory. Any non-null value from the primary connection cannot be over-written by conflicting data from any secondary source, even if the secondary source was imported more recently. For values that are null (not reported) in the primary connection, secondary connections can provide data, with the most recent secondary import taking priority for this. (The primary connection setting has no effect on the import of software inventory.)
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Aug 16, 2020
02:17 PM
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Hi @gotqcorp , based on the structure of FNMS subnets, you should do the following steps 1. Create a new site nodes based on the required data for the SP "EXEC SitePutBatchByName" 2. Add IP subents to sites creates in step 1, using the SP "EXEC SiteSubnetPutBatchByIPSubnetIPSubnetBitsSiteID" 3. Assign IP subnets created in step 2 to beacon assignment, using the SP "EXEC BeaconSiteSubnetMappingPutBatchByBeaconIDSubnetID" Best, Dennis
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Aug 11, 2020
01:56 PM
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@stephen_dulsthere is great report by @nrousseau1 to see which VMs are know by your vCenter connection and which of them are inventoried by FNMS (SCCM, Agent, ...). I can imagine this will give you a better overview about the current vcenter/host/vm situation FlexNet Manager Knowledge Base https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Knowledge-Base/Virtualization-Discovery-and-Inventory-Details-Custom-Views/ta-p/6025 Updated Report (v5) https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Forum/Virtualization-Discovery-and-Inventory-Details-Custom-Views/m-p/113820/highlight/true#M2358 Best, Dennis
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Aug 05, 2020
04:51 AM
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Hi @ll I noticed today that the step "Calculating NMAP range strings" on our beacons always takes about 30 minutes on average, which I consider to be very long and I wanted to hear your opinion about it. Discovery & Inventory Rule for vCenter Scan - Discovery.log - we've disabled the use of previously discovered devices, due to some issues - Maybe it's possible to tweak the Beacon registry with some additional NMAP commands to peed up this process
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