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rwiltshire
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Jan 14, 2021
02:12 PM
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?
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Jan 12, 2021
02:52 PM
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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
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Sep 29, 2020
04:36 PM
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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.
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Sep 29, 2020
04:26 PM
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Has anyone developed an inventory adapter for TADDM? Is there a reference adapter from Flexera someone can use?
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Sep 29, 2020
04:25 PM
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.
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Sep 10, 2020
03:36 PM
1 Kudo
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?
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Aug 26, 2020
02:29 PM
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
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Aug 25, 2020
12:03 PM
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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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Aug 07, 2020
12:24 PM
1 Kudo
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?
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Jun 01, 2020
11:59 AM
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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.
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May 28, 2020
12:20 PM
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?
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May 15, 2020
10:05 AM
That is a great reply Chris. Thank you very much for the clarity.
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May 14, 2020
09:21 AM
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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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May 08, 2020
12:20 PM
Looking for some input from the community regarding fnms user info. Currently, our user information is sourced from the out of box AD connection. The oob connection populates minimal information and also creates a user for any/all AD accounts. Questions: 1. Does FNMS need a user for every AD account? Service accounts, administrative accounts? Our company has regular user and administrative accounts for several employees (multiple ad accounts for single user). 2. Is it best practice to keep the oob AD user information? Or build custom business adapter to employee HR database?
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Mar 27, 2020
09:20 AM
I am looking for any best practices for integrating Flexnet with SCCM for workstations. The team does not want to deploy yet another agent to a large number of workstations so leveraging SCCM is the preference. Does anyone have any best practices for inventory on SCCM side to enable better Flexnet results? For example, should we be asking the SCCM team to collect sw id files as part of inventory to assist with FNMS recognition? Is there a minimum set of Asset Intelligence options to be enabled? Any gotchas with SW usage? Are there are best practices for data maintenance for the SCCM import data? Should the FNMS team be looking for specific data not cleaned up by the importer by default? I read issues with user data overlapping. Do customers dedicate a beacon to pulling the SCCM data? Do customers have any feedback on the impact of 25k sccm targets on an existing FNMS environment? Are there any best practice reports the team should add post integration to manage issues or drive more value from the data? I have yet to look at the latest release notes for 2019 R2, but are there observed issues worth noting with Flexera before turning on the integration? Much appreciated.
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- Got a Kudo for Re: Corporate Unit Business Adapter Not creating levels. Oct 22, 2020 07:11 AM
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