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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.

rwiltshire · ‎Aug 07, 2020

Hi All, I am working on importing organizational units from our HR system. It is possible for Organizational Units to move within the tree as we go through re-organizations. Is it possible to import organizational units without providing the full path but still relate to a parent organizational unit?

rwiltshire · ‎Jun 01, 2020

Thanks. It was selected. I found the issue was the "ID" field needed to be part of the job and left unchanged from the default values. This seems to be consistent with other imports leveraging the tree structure for enterprise data; corporate units, costs centers, locations. Each job needed the ID field mapped unchanged from defaults along with the other fields used for matching. Thanks again for the reply. Hopefully this helps the next person stumped.

rwiltshire · ‎May 28, 2020

Hi All, We've created a fairly simple business adapter to create Organizational Unit structure. Currently using 2019 R2. The import is creating each organizational name at the root level instead of creating the parent-child relationship. In the business adapter, Import Rules for Corporate Unit are all checked. Update Rule is reject all duplicates. The match is on "Name". Name is formatted as "parent/child1/child2". "Split values on" is set to "/". Read order is "forward". Name is the only field mapped. I am expecting the internal logic to create the tree and link items together. Is there something I am missing?

rwiltshire · ‎May 15, 2020

That is a great reply Chris. Thank you very much for the clarity.

rwiltshire · ‎May 14, 2020

Thanks for the reply. I am looking at filtering out accounts not needed and enriching the user records with information from our HR database. Why is it best practice to use AD for the base record vs an HR database? Thanks again.

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