@craig_moore  If you haven't already please vote on Please can you support Mutual TLS Authentication (mTLS) supported by FNMS ? and please be aware of Matt's comments underneath. Thanks, ... View more

Hi, If you have a beacon installed you can enable normal tracing for esxquery which will hopefully give extra information. (C:\Program Files (x86)\Flexera Software\Inventory Beacon\etdp.trace). You should enable the Inventory/VMware section followed the the normal esxquery -a. @craig_mooreDid you execute the CMD as admin and can you try a different path without the underscore as it looks like everything is working but you cannot write your inventory. I often came across issue with the local proxy settings which result in errors in the esxquery. you may check the proxy settings by running "netsh winhttp show proxy" Stefan   Stefan ... View more

Hello. Does anyone have experience with creating a license for JavaSE using the Named User Plus metric? How does consumption behave for instances of commercial JRE installed on workstations? Is consumption based on the quantities of installations, or does consumption factor in separate user accounts on the workstation? ... View more

Hey Kyle. Probably unrelated, but if your goal is to get the vCenter license, Host information and VM to Host relationships, you can do that with a Discovery & Inventory Rule to reach out to the API like any other vCenter. ... View more

I would argue that the vCenter job does no match at all. It creates a NDI file per host and all VM's related to this host. This info, including the relation, is provided by the API. Here is an example of one of the VM entries: The UID is basically the serial number. The VM itself will report it with "VMware-" in the front, but FNMS does normalize it for matching. The match is then made between an imported VM from FNMS (vCenter import) and an actual inventory (e.g. from the FNMS agent or SCCM) as part of the writer. ... View more

If you could stage your SCCM data into an independent database, you could limit the number of datasets in this process. The original SCCM adapter would then only import from this limited staging database. Could be a complex process as the original adapter uses a function which is rather complex to properly re-create in a staging DB. ... View more

Take a look at the following thread where this was recently discussed, and hopefully the comment there will help: IBM PVU Peak Consumption - Workaround to reset in FNMS 2020 R1 On-prem   ... View more

Whether you need to gather file evidence for managing sub-capacity licenses will ultimately be determined by whether the applications you have deployed under that license model are recognized in the ARL using file evidence, or recognized using some other sort of evidence (likely installer evidence). Most applications in the ARL are recognized based installer evidence, but there are exceptions. Of course, there is a potential chicken-and-egg problem here: unless you have the evidence, you may not know what software you have deployed, and so you may not know what type of evidence you need to gather. As such, gathering file evidence as part of your inventory is the safer/more conservative approach. ... View more

If your environment is sufficiently tight that Windows Authentication will be able to be used for all the FlexNet Manager Suite virtual directories that get configured and used on the application server then I think you would be able to avoid installing the Basic Authentication feature. It is typical to use Windows Authentication on virtual directories, so that isn't too unusual. What is slightly more unusual is not actually having the Basic Authentication feature installed as per the Installation Guide (even if it isn't actually used/enabled on any virtual directories), so you may want to do an install on a test system to verify that it is going to work and look out for any challenges. It is possible that there might be something in the installation process that expects the feature to be installed. ... View more

Thanks for the diagram. Would like to understand > Do we need to make changes to child's beacon config file? > Which Ip Address need to use in beacon config file - is it Proxy server/load balancer or other? > what is the need to child beacon?  > instead of child beacon, can I use internal load balancer and proxy server connect to this load balancer?  ... View more

Hi Chris, Thanks for the update! My understanding is that with FNMS 2019 R1 and newer, CLR integration in SQL Server is required for FNMS to operate. This applies to all releases of SQL Server, including SQL Server 2016 R1 and R2. After some investigation, I found some documentation that describes how CLR integration can be enabled on AWS RDS SQL Server. Apparently, this approach does not work with SQL Server 2017/2019 though. When using SQL Server 2014 or 2016 on AWS RDS, as described in the 'sqlshack.com' article, you have to create an RDS parameter group in AWS and update the 'CLR enabled' parameter. Then you have to apply this parameter group. ... View more

hi @_willyin , i suggest you better raise a support case for the Red hat license apart from this thread and if there is a possibility Flexera might take it up as an enhancement and enable separate license type as per the feasibility. Regards, ... View more