Hi all ... I deployed the Flexnet Inventory Agent to a mac.  Installation completed successfully.  It received its initial policy and schedule from the bootstrap Inventory Beacon.  The agent logs all look fine. About 12 hours later, the agent woke up to determine if there are any changes to the policy, as it's supposed to.  But upon waking up, there was no longer a connection to any Inventory Beacon because the mac was no longer on the network that has the Inventory Beacons.  When this happens, does the agent still have its original schedule? Is inventory collection supposed to run according to the schedule initially downloaded, even if there's no network connection to an Inventory Beacon at the moment and it can't be uploaded right away?  Or does this condition prevent the mac agent from running initial inventory because even though it obtained an initial schedule, it couldn't check the schedule for updates so it considers the schedule to be invalid somehow? I thought I'd see inventory collection occur with no upload, but instead I don't see a tracker.log file at all, telling me that Inventory collection never ran. --Mark ... View more

Hi all ... My inventory beacons, at the moment, are still at 2019 R1 and will be upgraded in the short term (within three months, I hope).   I'd like to deploy new agents using the current release.  During this transition period, some agents would be "newer" than the inventory beacon. Is a newer 2021/22 R1 agent working with a 2019 R1 inventory beacon a supported configuration by Flexera? --Mark ... View more

Hi all ... It is written in the documentation that if you delete an inventory connection, any data associated with that connection is also deleted. I have an inventory adapter with an SCCM connection running on an inventory beacon that is due for retirement (migrating off Windows 2012 R2).  The same is true for the AD Import. My plan is to disable this inventory adapter on the older beacon and recreate this adapter on the new beacon with the same name.  Same for the AD Import.  Will this maintain the connection's history (i.e. not delete the whole thing and start over, simply continue where it leaves off in terms of adds, updates and deletes)? Second question, does the Inventory Beacon UI allow you to export an existing connection from one beacon and import it into another? I temporarily don't have access to a beacon to log into the UI and examine this for myself. Thanks as always! --Mark ... View more

Hi all ... I have FNMS agents from FNMS 2019 R1 that I'd like to upgrade to FNMS 2022 R1. The plan is to use a third party deployment tool; probably SCCM (Windows) and JAMF (Mac) but at this point I am not certain. Is there a specific upgrade package that needs to be downloaded from the Product & License center for this? If there isn't a specific package, do your deployment scripts basically uninstall the current version and then install the current version using the installation files (i.e. FlexNet Inventory Agent.msi, mgssetup.ini and data1.cab for Windows)? Or do your scripts stop the existing Flexera agent executables (one technique is here) and then run the installer without removing the prior version first? I also saw this post and read the chapter in Gathering Flexnet Inventory on this topic but there wasn't much to go on. Curious about the experiences of those of you who have done this in the past and whether you'd do it that way again if necessary. --Mark ... View more