Tanium Connector Architecture

FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R1 (On-Premises)

This chapter provides a useful framework for your understanding of the more detailed workflow of the Tanium Connector.

The above diagram shows the workflow of how the connector works:

Tanium

• Creating Flexera Destination will create the views and reports automatically
• Flexera views are used for importing data from Tanium Asset to FlexNet Manager Suite Imported* tables, later Compliance database tables.
• The following Tanium views used for importing data:
  • Flexera Computer — contains Computer, User, Domain and WMI evidences data
  • Flexera Software Installations — contains Installer evidences data
  • Flexera File Evidence — contains File evidences data
  • Flexera Network Adapter — contains IP address and mac addresses data for each computer
  • Flexera SQL Edition — contains SQL related installer evidence data.
    Note: You must create this view manually, if the view does not exist. See Creating a Flexera SQL Edition view within Tanium Asset for instructions.

Tip: Flexera reports in Tanium Asset enable crosschecking of the data between Tanium and FlexNet Manager Suite once the import is complete.

Beacon

• In Beacon Server, connects to Tanium to perform the inventory upload
• Data will be collected using these views through REST API calls and creates intermediate zip file.

FlexNet Manager Suite

• Intermediate zip file will be pushed from Beacon to FlexNet Manager Suite using Writers logic (data into the Compliance database).
• Once data is imported, this inventory is matched to the Application Recognition Library and license compliance is calculated.