Hi Adrian, There is probably SSL interception done to check even encrypted connections for malware. This is not uncommon in companies. In effect it does a man-in-the-middle attack and re-creates all certificates, but signed by the CA of the proxy. To get rid of this messages you have to trust this proxy CA. To do this you need to contact your system administrator to get the proper certificate and the instructions on how to import it into your browser. ... View more

Yes, a manually created registry entry will get overwritten if the policy contains different details. But manually created entries wouldn't normally be deleted. So if want your entries to stick, avoid using a registry key path that will match what gets set through the policy. ... View more

@ymhadjou - apologies for the delay, I had missed this question earlier. You can specify a comma-separated set of filename patterns in the CTrackerIncludeFile preference. For example: EXEC dbo.BeaconTargetPropertyValuePutByKeyNameBeaconTargetID @KeyName = 'CTrackerIncludeFile', @BeaconTargetID = @btid, @Value = 'log4j-core-*.jar,another-file-of-interest.jar'   ... View more

I know, this is actually an old thread on a slightly different issue, but as the discussion went in this direction, I am going to post this here. I just spent some time playing this through again in my test lab. I can only guess that with the new release, more people will run into this issue. Therefore let's try to structure this a bit for everyone else: End of '21, early '22, updated packages for FNMS 2021 R1 were released (cert, DB mig & installer). Reason was the certificate used for registering the CLR assembly was no longer valid. Database migration (e.g. 2020 R2 > 2021 R1) consists of multiple steps, of which some rely on the old certificate, one on the new certificate. To be exact: 16.0 > 16.1 > 16.2 > 16.3 > 16.4 > 16.5 still run with the old certificate. Only 16.5 > 17.0 need the new one. So when migrating, make sure not to replace the certificate right away. If you did so and need to restore the old cert, you can still take it from the 2020 R2 release (as 2021 R1 downloads do no longer contains the old cert). If you want to update the certificates, I guess you'll need to remove the "chain" User - Login - Certificate > see code below Then register the new Certificate, Login, User using the latest package. Be sure to do this only after you ran the early migration steps. Then re-run the migration and it should finish the last step. Use this to remove the old User, Login and Certificate: USE master; DROP USER FlexeraUser; DROP LOGIN FlexeraLogin; DROP CERTIFICATE Flexera; PS: SET TRUSTWORTHY ON is not a solution, as mentioned above, it works around the actual security feature here. Edit: Formatting ... View more

I did something like this but on the beacon level, as we have a multi tenant implementation, the hassle was to big to do this job on the main application level. But also I had some additional requirement, the customer want the .ndi files to be replicated to his own beacon server, but only the .ndi files that are in his scope. So I did the following: On beacon server, I modified the upload tasks, and put before uploading a robocopy task in place, that will copy the incoming folder to a staging database.  On the upload server, I have dump .csv file that contain all the devices that are in scope for the customer, this CSV file is put into a virtual directory and with curl I download this file from the beacon. Having this file on beacon with power shell I check it and move the data to an upload folder. After that with ndupload and with some parameters I send the data directly to the customer beacon as requested. For your implementation you can do the same and send the data to you dev beacon. ... View more

Hi @OvidiuManta ,  Thank you very much for the guide, it worked. 🤝 @bcovella , feel free to PM me if you are still looking for solution, I can share few tips and tricks that I found.  ... View more

Good afternoon usn, thanks for reaching out via the Community! I'd agree with what Kirk and Adrian are saying here. You should confirm your agent has a configured Bootstrap server, and that communications through ports 80 or 443 are successful, depending on how your Beacon's configured. I'd also look at the installation.log in the C:\Windows\Temp location, too. We should see a policy download occurring after installation, which should populate our list of servers to upload to (the Beacons in our environment). If that initial download didn't succeed, perhaps that's the cause of our missing upload servers. Best regards, Jack ... View more

You can create a view on Flexera sql database granting the access to that view to SNOW account/SNOWuser to read Flexera data, so SNOW midserver can get it in.  ... View more

Hi Adrian, thank you for the idea. We have to support the full sortiment of operating systems available. And so I found the command CURL very usefull. It has a bunch of options, but there are no deviation on each architectures options. And it has choices for deep inspection of multiple protocols and is also available on MS Windows from stock. For pure connection inspection you can use i.e. "curl -vki https://flexbeacon". Second test might be the reachability of Certificate Authority (Port 80 !), potentially it is in another DMZ. And if there are network related showstoppers, you have to dive deeper. How already mentioned, because of security concerns are there some protocols barred from use. So ping and oldstyle traceroute might not work. But because you are only interested in TCP-traffic of HTTP protocol, you are lucky to use your "netstat -an" to analyse your stack of TCP-ports.  Filtering it with grep/findstr for status "SYN" or "FIN" will give you hints for broken network connections. Your network dude will appreciate your hints. Kind regards, Juergen ... View more

Hello, @ChrisG, sorry to jump in, I tried also your script and for me is not working, I receive the following error: Msg 208, Level 16, State 0, Line 30 Invalid object name '#ReportData'.  Is like temporary table is not created, when I try and disable the replace and run the scrip is working, so it's a little bit stage, do you have some hints in this case? Thank you for your support and I wish you a nice day. ... View more

Hi Chris, This could be a solution, but what's happening if on the same ESX are multiple cluster, and I want to audit only one cluster, and also what happening in case of commissioning new ESX servers, then I need to put in place some sort of procedure. ... View more

Hi Chris, We are using the latest version of FNMS available, 2021 R1 I will speak with the SQL team to use SQL profiler to see what's happening there. Thank you for the hint. ... View more

I have exactly same issue, I have created a new rule and only getting discovery logs and no vmware inventory. How can i solve it ... View more

Hello, I just run into the same error. I fix it recycling the application pool, and stop and start the application pool. The error as I can see is impacting the creating of the business importer on the beacon level. ... View more