@schandran , I have the report and have found that all of the ~290 Solaris servers are indeed there. But all except for 5 records have duplicate serial. Other sources bring in duplicate serial numbers but let's say this one doesn't. There still should be 5 (the ones with unique serial) that come across. Any thoughts? ... View more

Many thanks @kclausen ! I've not done anything with this connector but seems like it would be a similar solution if SCCM inventory were needed from the disconnected network. So here's my follow-up question: the SCCM data is (of course) inclusive of the actual device inventory. Is that the case where the ILMT data is concerned? Rob   ... View more

Thanks @ChrisG ! Wow, there is a surprise here though. I know with the Java paid license issue, the agent is quite capable to figure things out. But are you saying I need to advise the client that the agent should be installed on all UNIX-like servers where Java is installed? Alternatively, if Tanium is installed on these servers, would that be a acceptable? Thanks, Rob ... View more

@ChrisG , @sunilkumar , your guru'ness is respectfully requested.  I've followed in the footsteps of my team mates @dbeckner and @dcopher and went through the process of bringing in Tanium inventory. BLUF: I have successfully ran a compliance import with the Tanium connection made in the Beacon that is co-located with FNM.  I'm confused as to the requirement that the connection be made on a different, external beacon. It does not say this anywhere in the Inventory Adapters and Connectors reference. That said, in the section called "Configure FlexNet Beacon to connect with Tanium", step 8 walks one through scheduling the connection which isn't possible on the co-located beacon. As well, step 11 has one execute which also isn't possible. I am using the same Tanium instance as the Dans did prior (I've set up a second Destination to a different database and have yet another svc account with Asset User rights).  Things seem to be working. So I'm thinking this is an allowable practice now (newer connector version?) and the documentation is wrong (or not updated)?  Many thanks for your consideration, Rob ... View more

Sounds like your issue is with queuing up the data for import into the target. In my case, there's a AD group populated with computers. The service account doing the adoption has local admin rights on those exact computers. Couldn't have a better basis for the underlying target used for agent adoption! There is an issue where it is sometimes the case that the device hasn't been discovered but is still able to be adopted. In this situation, one can't add a hostname to a target but one can add the IP. All manageable. I'm working with Teemu on a solution for using BAS with the target. If interested, and if he agrees since he's the one mostly doing this, we can share. Rob   ... View more

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@mrichardson  Thanks Matt for describing where things are in the database. I had looked at these very tables but was confused because it would seem the storage of the entry is in a different table depending on if it was a IP vs. site\subnet vs. hostname. I put on the brakes and came here.  @dsalter , very interesting use case indeed! Have you put a solution together?   @TeemuK , have you by chance found the adapter? Using BAS is what I was thinking.  Here is my situation: We are deploying the FlexNet agent via adaption to all servers. The account empowered to adopt is (say) cnet\FNMAgentInstallerEast. There is an AD group called DataCenterEast.Servers which have (say) 1000 servers in it... updated daily so it is always changing (servers being added and removed).  We use the below PowerShell to get these servers and more important, their assigned IP address # Get each hostnames from AD group DataCenterEast.Servers $computerlist = Get-ADGroupMember DataCenterEast.Servers | Select-Object Name # Get IP for each hostname and output to csv (computersips.csv) foreach ($computer in $computerlist) { [system.net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses("$computer") | Foreach-Object   {   add-content -path C:\temp\computersips.csv -value "$computer,$($_.IPAddressToString)"   } } The resulting csv is the source data we'd like to use to populate the target. Hostname would be more human-readable but, because we can't guarantee that the server has been discovered (hence, you're not allowed to add by hostname in the target), we are fine with using IP. Note: I could do a join with discovered devices table and make it Hostname if discovered or IP if not but that can be v2 -- just looking to keep it simple to start! The cool thing is that, where a customer would do such a thing like populate an AD group with the servers the installing account has purview over, the target that could be created would be "DataCenterEast (FNMAgentInstallerEast)" and it would be understood and expected that each server be properly and swiftly adopted.  The AS-IS method: add each IP manually.  Any thoughts would be appreciated and especially if there's been something done adapter-wise that has produced this automation. Thanks, Rob A ... View more

@DAWN  \ anyone, Can you give an update on the Azure \ SQL Server aspect? It's been a year and I'm wondering if this has changed. The client is asking this and the mention SQL Server 2017 (but don't clearly say Azure SQL Server is at version 2017 - let's presume so). Then, which of the following database options should we be using: 1.       Azure SQL Databases    a.       Single Database    b.       Database elastic pool    c.       Database Server 2.       SQL Managed Instance 3.       SQL Virtual Machines Thanks, Rob ... View more

Greetings. I mostly work in environments where clients enable the disallowing of password storage. It's a medium STIG finding but it is often their default none-the-less. https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/windows_server_2012_member_server/2014-01-07/finding/V-3376   Question: WHY is it that the scheduled tasks run as the service account in the first place? I understand the concept of the beacon service running under the context of the service account but not so much why the scheduled tasks.   The client is asking me to explain this and I'm not aware of the appropriate answer. Because that's just how .NET applications do it?    Thanks, Rob  ... View more