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rwiltshire · ‎Apr 08, 2022

Has anyone in the community successfully integrated SaaS Manager with SalesForce sdfc? If so, are you able to share the details on what is needed on the SFDC side? The docs point to a regular user with access to API. Is this correct in practice? Does the integration user still require admin for the initial configuration as indicated in a 2020 release note? I am looking for explicit instructions to provide our SFDC admins.

rwiltshire · ‎Nov 30, 2021

Thanks Chris. Best practice to make changes would then involve turning off the default AD import and creating a custom import? Do you know if the SCCM import also imports users?

rwiltshire · ‎Nov 26, 2021

Is there a method to add a filter to the ootb AD user pull? I am looking to filter out accounts in specific OUs that are not needed.

rwiltshire · ‎Oct 18, 2021

That may be the way to go assuming the huge list of AD users is required for flexera to function. We use functional accounts, service accounts and others in addition to regular user accounts. Does the AD ootb integration mark accounts inactive from AD if marked as not active in AD?

rwiltshire · ‎Sep 17, 2021

Hello We have the default import of users from AD running. This is importing a thin (account name, full name) view of user data. We created a second business adapter to enrich the user data with first name, last name, locations, cost centers, corporate units etc... I am seeing the User full name flip back and forth between this two updates. AD updates user to <First Name> <Last Name> <LDAPID>. Our HR import is not setting Full Name at all but we are setting First/Last name which seems to trigger an update to Full Name. Question -> how can I stop the HR update from updating Full Name of user? Or should I be augmenting the AD pull in place of creating a new adapter? History for the users is getting an update twice a day now which is not great.

rwiltshire · ‎Mar 29, 2021

Here you go. Path varies by install. Below is the default. /opt/managesoft/bin/mgspolicy -t machine

rwiltshire · ‎Mar 01, 2021

Thanks for all the replies. I'll pass the info on to our network teams. In our case, the network team observes the traffic and the impact on our DNS appliances.

rwiltshire · ‎Jan 14, 2021

Hi All, I get errors running the lite collection against some of our VMware Virtual centers. The Virtual Centers with issues appear to be using SSO. I can manually log into the VC with the specified account but esxquery.exe shows the below error: BindServer(<server ip>, proto=https, port=0) failed. Anyone else have these issues?

rwiltshire · ‎Jan 12, 2021

Hi All, Has anyone deployed agents to compute resources in GCP? If so, do your agents report back to an on prem beacon or internet facing or x? GCP Cloud Asset Inventory beta is starting to collect information regarding the OS and installed packages. With this data, is it necessary to have agents deployed to cloud targets for simple use cases? Has any looked at an adapter to leverage GCP inventory data over installing agents? Thanks

rwiltshire · ‎Sep 29, 2020

I'll chat with our sales guy. Its a shame that some basic normalization is not part of the product. The cost of data platform is huge on top of flexera. I was hoping for basics in the tool then leverage Data platform for real enrichment of ESOL, power, other metrics.

rwiltshire · ‎Sep 29, 2020

Has anyone developed an inventory adapter for TADDM? Is there a reference adapter from Flexera someone can use?

rwiltshire · ‎Sep 29, 2020

Hi All, We have a handful of middleware products for linux servers that are hosted on NFS mounts. A devops team mounts a shared drive with a handful of binaries available. The local server has application start up scripts and local configurations that leverage the remote binaries. FNMS by default will not scan NFS mounts. I think this is great as this could lead to huge issues with storage performance. How have other companies tackled the issue of software on NFS mounts? One thought I had is to leverage our dependency discovery tool as a data source for specific products. This would require a custom Inventory Adapter but has potential.

rwiltshire · ‎Sep 10, 2020

Hello The team is importing device assets from sources such as SAP. The import process will create a device if not existing already or update relevant fields. How does every one approach models and manufactures when importing device assets? Is there any built in functionality to set a normalized name for hardware?

rwiltshire · ‎Aug 26, 2020

Chris, agreed on policy. We have IMAC changes coming in from a separate system.. Unfortunately, that system is not passing a location. I was hoping to look up the user and set the location to the users location when the machine is assigned. The team can later go in and move to another location if not matching the assigned user. Can the custom query take a value from input to use as criteria? General Process flow of adapter: SQL Query for IMACs -> Custom Query to get user location -> update FNMS

rwiltshire · ‎Aug 25, 2020

Hi All, I am working on a business adapter to import device assets with life cycle updates from an internal workstation inventory tool. One requirement is to set the device location to that of the user assigned. I can match user in the business adapter without an issue. I do not know how to capture the matched User's locationid and assign to the target device asset. I tried using custom query with no luck. Any one have any suggestions on how to make this happen within the business adapter? I am finding the business adapters really limiting compared to other ETL tools.

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