I got a question from our Security Advisor on topic communication between FNMS Agent to Internet Facing beacon. Does Flexera for FNMS support Mutual TLS Authentication (mTLS) ? If not, if and when does Flexera plan to support this in the future.   Some info for people who want to read about mTLS on wiki:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_authentication   Mutual authentication or two-way authentication ... View more

Hello Community, I have a question about the process in the FlexNet Agent to determine the best beacon to send the inventory files to. I understand roughly the process that the Agent on a device gets a policy from a beacon with included all the beacons connected to the Application server. To determine the connection to these beacon and the best beacon to send to it is pinging all the beacons and based on response time it prioritises the best one. But if it is not allowed to ping, so ping possibility has been disabled to to security reasons, what to be done? Gr, Frank ... View more

Hello all, In Unix Bootstrap Configuration File  "mgsft_rollout_response file"  I found two  mgsft parameters which I cannot find back in Flexera documentation. I checked two versions of Gathering Flexnet Inventory for this, an old one 2018 R1 and a newer one 2019 R2. Below the parameters and information of this in a mgsft_rollout_response file. My questions are: - are these parameters still valid  / used ? - why is this info not in the documentation "Gathering Flexnet Inventory" Hope you can help me on this.     # The alternate machine identification allows the specification of an # alternate machine name if it is to be different to the current hostname # (e.g. if registered differently in Active Directory) Not specifying # this setting or a value of NONE disables this feature. # MGSFT_MACHINE_ID=   # The policy path specifies the location of the policy to be applied to # the managed device.  This is typically used when the policy is not # attached to Active Directory domains.  For example, a path may be # "Policies/Merged/MANAGESOFT_domain/Machine/device.npl".  Not specifying # this setting or a value of NONE disables this feature. # MGSFT_POLICY_PATH=`echo ${BOOTSTRAPPEDPOLICY} | sed -e 's/^\$[(].*[)]\///'` MGSFT_POLICY_PATH=$(DownloadRootURL)/Policies/Merged/MANAGESOFT_domain/Machine/UnixServer.npl ... View more