Hi all, I'm using the NTFS junction successfully for few years already on all FNMS parts (Batch. Inventory, Analytics, Web, Beacons) in production.   Before installation of the application: create "d:\ProgramData\Flexera Software" run command: mklink /J "c:\ProgramData\Flexera Software" "d:\ProgramData\Flexera Software" install application (i.e. Beacon) install the application with usual default data location "c:\ProgramData\Flexera Software"   After installation of the application: uninstall product (i.e. Beacon) move "c:\ProgramData\Flexera Software" to "d:\ProgramData\Flexera Software" run command: mklink /J "c:\ProgramData\Flexera Software" "d:\ProgramData\Flexera Software" install the application with usual default data location "c:\ProgramData\Flexera Software"   Of course, I don't provide any guarantees on this, I'm only a community member and you are doing this on your own risk.   Regards, Pavol ... View more

Thanks! I'll be monitoring them more deeper. Pavol ... View more

Hello, what is mean under "some issues"? We already upgraded all our on-prem Beacons to 2019R2. Where can I get more info? Thanks! Pavol ... View more

I starting to get a feeling that monitoring IIS log for 404 errors is useless... ... View more

Oh, for the last comment I believe the errors were caused by Beacon generating new files. I just found this in BeaconIIS.log (time 6:43 is same as 11:43 in IIS logs)   2020-05-04 06:43:08,765 [ment.PolicyFileWatcher] [INFO ] Policy file watcher detected a new beacon policy 2020-05-04 06:43:08,765 [mmon.BeaconPolicyCache] [INFO ] Loading beacon policy from 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Beacon\BeaconPolicy.xml' 2020-05-04 06:43:08,765 [mmon.BeaconPolicyCache] [INFO ] Certificate configurations not found. 2020-05-04 06:43:08,765 [mmon.BeaconPolicyCache] [WARN ] Failed to execute the method: <LoadBeaconPolicy>b__0 with error: The process cannot access the file 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Beacon\BeaconPolicy.xml' because it is being used by another process.). Attempt 1 of 10 retries. 2020-05-04 06:43:09,312 [mmon.BeaconPolicyCache] [INFO ] Loading beacon policy from 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Beacon\BeaconPolicy.xml' 2020-05-04 06:43:09,312 [mmon.BeaconPolicyCache] [INFO ] Certificate configurations not found. 2020-05-04 06:43:09,343 [ment.PolicyFileWatcher] [INFO ] Clearing beacon web server cache, because a change to the beacon policy file was detected. 2020-05-04 06:43:09,343 [eployment.CacheManager] [INFO ] Clearing cached items from disk 2020-05-04 06:43:18,843 [eployment.CacheManager] [WARN ] Failed to clean up file cache path 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\Policies'. System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'ausdwanlapp02-50230DF7ECDAB19ECD6CA367F8EED6BCA777C353.npl' is denied. at System.IO.Directory.DeleteHelper(String fullPath, String userPath, Boolean recursive, Boolean throwOnTopLevelDirectoryNotFound, WIN32_FIND_DATA& data) at System.IO.Directory.Delete(String fullPath, String userPath, Boolean recursive, Boolean checkHost) at Flexera.Beacon.Deployment.CacheManager.ClearFileCache() 2020-05-04 06:43:18,874 [ation.PackageGenerator] [INFO ] Generating package of type 'ClientSettings' at 'ClientSettings' 2020-05-04 06:43:18,890 [ntFormats.AgentPackage] [INFO ] Writing package file, folder='C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\ClientSettings\Default Failover Settings', pkgName='Default Failover Settings', extension='ndc', internalPackageName='ManagedDeviceSettings' 2020-05-04 06:43:19,156 [s.DownloadDLController] [WARN ] Requested file 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\ClientSettings\Default Failover Settings 2B78CAEF2E02620554C3AF12C624CFF4\Default Failover Settings.osd' not found. 2020-05-04 06:43:20,999 [s.DownloadDLController] [WARN ] Requested file 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\ClientSettings\Default Failover Settings 2B78CAEF2E02620554C3AF12C624CFF4\Default Failover Settings.osd' not found. 2020-05-04 06:43:21,718 [s.DownloadDLController] [WARN ] Requested file 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\InventorySettingsConfiguration\InventorySettings\InventorySettings.osd' not found. 2020-05-04 06:43:21,781 [s.DownloadDLController] [WARN ] Requested file 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\InventorySettingsConfiguration\InventorySettings\InventorySettings.ndc' not found. 2020-05-04 06:43:22,015 [ation.PackageGenerator] [INFO ] Generating package of type 'InventorySettings' at 'InventorySettingsConfiguration' 2020-05-04 06:43:22,015 [ntFormats.AgentPackage] [INFO ] Signer is null. Signature verifcation is skipped 2020-05-04 06:43:22,031 [ntFormats.AgentPackage] [INFO ] Writing package file, folder='C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\InventorySettingsConfiguration\InventorySettings', pkgName='InventorySettings', extension='ndc', internalPackageName='InventorySettings' 2020-05-04 06:43:22,046 [ation.PackageGenerator] [INFO ] Generating package of type 'ClientSettings' at 'ClientSettings' 2020-05-04 06:43:22,046 [ntFormats.AgentPackage] [INFO ] Writing package file, folder='C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\ClientSettings\Default Failover Settings 2B78CAEF2E02620554C3AF12C624CFF4', pkgName='Default Failover Settings', extension='ndc', internalPackageName='ManagedDeviceSettings' 2020-05-04 06:43:22,062 [ation.PackageGenerator] [INFO ] Generating package of type 'ClientSettings' at 'ClientConfiguration' 2020-05-04 06:43:22,062 [ntFormats.AgentPackage] [INFO ] Writing package file, folder='C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\ClientConfiguration\Device Configuration 9BC0313A42B83B0E845936DBF790BAC9', pkgName='Device Configuration', extension='ndc', internalPackageName='Device Configuration' 2020-05-04 06:43:22,062 [ation.PackageGenerator] [INFO ] Generating package of type 'Schedule' at 'Schedules' 2020-05-04 06:43:22,062 [ntFormats.AgentPackage] [INFO ] Writing package file, folder='C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\Schedules\Default Machine Schedule 26E01C127ABB501658598FA2F3847162', pkgName='Default Machine Schedule', extension='nds', internalPackageName='Default Machine Schedule' 2020-05-04 07:02:20,142 [s.DownloadDLController] [WARN ] Requested file 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\Schedules\Default Machine Schedule\Default Machine Schedule.osd' not found. 2020-05-04 07:12:34,714 [s.DownloadDLController] [WARN ] Requested file 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\Schedules\Default Machine Schedule\Default Machine Schedule.osd' not found. 2020-05-04 07:12:37,276 [s.DownloadDLController] [WARN ] Requested file 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\Schedules\Default Machine Schedule\Default Machine Schedule.osd' not found. 2020-05-04 07:15:54,238 [s.DownloadDLController] [WARN ] Requested file 'C:\ProgramData\Flexera Software\Staging\Common\Schedules\Default Machine Schedule\Default Machine Schedule.osd' not found. ... 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Below are logs from one Agent (10.177.163.103) requesting at three different times - first success, second error, third success. Why is that error happening?   Default+Failover+Settings.osd 2020-05-04 11:42:59 10.177.163.103 GET /ManageSoftDL/ClientSettings/Default+Failover+Settings+2B78CAEF2E02620554C3AF12C624CFF4/Default+Failover+Settings.osd - 80 - 10.160.235.30 FlexNet+Manager+Platform/13.1.1+(Windows+x86) - 200 0 0 15 2020-05-04 11:43:19 10.177.163.103 GET /ManageSoftDL/ClientSettings/Default+Failover+Settings+2B78CAEF2E02620554C3AF12C624CFF4/Default+Failover+Settings.osd - 80 - 10.160.235.30 FlexNet+Manager+Platform/13.1.1+(Windows+x86) - 404 0 0 15 2020-05-04 11:52:39 10.177.163.103 GET /ManageSoftDL/ClientSettings/Default+Failover+Settings+2B78CAEF2E02620554C3AF12C624CFF4/Default+Failover+Settings.osd - 80 - 10.160.235.30 FlexNet+Manager+Platform/13.1.1+(Windows+x86) - 200 0 0 0   InventorySettings.osd 2020-05-04 11:18:32 10.177.163.103 GET /ManageSoftDL/InventorySettingsConfiguration/InventorySettings/InventorySettings.osd - 80 - 10.160.235.30 FlexNet+Manager+Platform/13.1.1+(Windows+x86) - 200 0 0 15 2020-05-04 11:43:21 10.177.163.103 GET /ManageSoftDL/InventorySettingsConfiguration/InventorySettings/InventorySettings.osd - 80 - 10.160.235.30 FlexNet+Manager+Platform/13.1.1+(Windows+x86) - 404 0 0 62 2020-05-04 11:47:29 10.177.163.103 GET /ManageSoftDL/InventorySettingsConfiguration/InventorySettings/InventorySettings.osd - 80 - 10.160.235.30 FlexNet+Manager+Platform/13.1.1+(Windows+x86) - 200 0 0 46 ... View more

Oh, now I found that it's not only about Default Machine Schedule.osd but also InventorySettings.ndc file: 2020-05-04 11:43:21 10.177.163.103 GET /ManageSoftDL/InventorySettingsConfiguration/InventorySettings/InventorySettings.ndc - 80 - 143.166.135.175 FlexNet+Manager+Platform/13.1.1+(Windows+x86) - 404 0 0 31 but in few minutes the same address was reachable with HTTP 200 OK: 2020-05-04 11:43:40 10.177.163.103 GET /ManageSoftDL/InventorySettingsConfiguration/InventorySettings/InventorySettings.ndc - 80 - 10.161.31.244 FlexNet+Manager+Platform/13.1.1+(Windows+x86) - 200 0 0 15 Maybe the Beacon is reaching it's limits? ... View more

Usually agents are getting the osd file from different folder with some generated GUID: 2020-05-04 11:37:22 10.177.163.103 GET /ManageSoftDL/Schedules/Default+Machine+Schedule+26E01C127ABB501658598FA2F3847162/Default+Machine+Schedule.osd - 80 - 10.179.162.34 Flexera+Inventory+Manager/13.1.1+(Linux) - 200 0 0 0 ... View more

Thanks Chris, this helped me to solve the reconciliation error after upgrade FNMS 2018R2 to 2019R. ... View more

This article helped me to solve my problems 🙂 Thanks. It would be nice if the IBM Cognos Analytics in FNMS Analytics would be updated to support TLS 1.2 out of the box. I'll add some error texts here because it took me about 10 hours to went through various options while I found this article which actually was the one which solved it. And it was only because my error text was not in this article. So now it will be 🙂 My environment: Windows servers 2016, MSSQL server 2017, FNMS 2019R2 Error message of .\installCognos.ps1:   Invoke-CognosConfigTool : Exception calling "Invoke" with "2" argument(s): "Cognos configuration failed (error code 2). Check the cogconfig.*.log and cogconfig_response.csv files found in C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\analytics\logs for more information." At D:\temp\FNMS\Support\modules\ConfigureCognos.psm1:160 char:2 + Invoke-CognosConfigTool $CognosInstallDir -ErrorHandler ${functio ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Invoke-CognosConfigTool], MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RuntimeException,Invoke-CognosConfigTool   When looking into cogconfig_response.csv I can see this error at the end of file:   EXEC, "[Content Manager database connection]", "Testing Content Manager database connection." ERROR, "[Content Manager database connection]", "The database connection failed." ERROR, "[Content Manager database connection]", "Content Manager is unable to connect to the content store. Verify that the database connection properties in the configuration tool are correct and that when you test the connection, the test is successful."   At this point the installation broke and PowerShell script InstallCognos.ps1 ended, so I started  "IBM Cognos Configuration" utility by running C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\analytics\bin64\cogconfig.bat and then I followed the steps written above in the article... ContentStore database connection test was successful, so I started again the InstallCognos.ps1 from the PowerShell and now it finished installation without any problems. ... View more

If you have problems with downloading the "Unrestricted SDK JCE policy files" from IBM, try this link: https://www-01.ibm.com/marketing/iwm/iwm/web/dispatcher.do?source=jcesdk. The link from original post didn't work for me after login, but this one worked. ... View more

Thanks @dswann for attachment 🙂 Pavol ... View more