Overview of Inventory Export Tool

FlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R2 (On-Premises)

The FlexNet Manager Suite Inventory Export Tool is a stand-alone executable for Windows platforms. It exports information about installed software recorded in FlexNet Manager Suite, transferring the data to Software Vulnerability Manager. More specifically, here is what is exported and what is excluded:

What is exported	What is NOT exported
Applications automatically identified within your enterprise by matching any kind of evidence rules published in the downloadable Application Recognition Library.	Any of the evidence records linked to these applications.
Application records you created manually and linked to evidence found within your enterprise.	Any of the evidence records linked to these applications.
Installer evidence found in the enterprise that is not yet linked to any application record.	Any other form of evidence such as file evidence, WMI evidence, and so on.
	Application definitions downloaded in the Application Recognition Library that have not yet been identified in your enterprise.

Within Software Vulnerability Manager, the data appears as a software asset list, allowing assessment and notification of possible vulnerabilities in the applications present in your enterprise. Within Software Vulnerability Manager, each company's account supports a single pool of data imported from FlexNet Manager Suite, which may be assigned to one or more asset lists for convenient management. At each data transfer, the entire pool is updated.

Tip: Multiple user accounts within one company have their own unique access tokens for Software Vulnerability Manager. If the Inventory Export Tool is run multiple times from FlexNet Manager Suite, even using separate access tokens, the entire company data pool is updated by each of these user's actions.

The Inventory Export Tool is separately downloadable, and must be installed on the application server of any on-premises implementation of FlexNet Manager Suite (for larger implementation that have scaled up to multiple servers, it may be installed on the batch server). From there, using resources already saved on that operational server, the tool accesses the necessary operations databases to collect the required data. The tool is configured to then deliver the data to a remote instance of Software Vulnerability Manager.

Prerequisites

The requirements for the FlexNet Manager Suite Inventory Export Tool are simple:

• You must have a fully operational, on-premises implementation of FlexNet Manager Suite release 2015 R2 SP2 or later. (Each instance of FlexNet Manager Suite must have a single company account for Software Vulnerability Manager. For managed service providers, there must be a separate account for each tenant.)
  Tip: Supply of the Inventory Export Tool as a separate utility will be deprecated at a future release when equivalent functionality is more fully integrated within FlexNet Manager Suite. Please ensure that you refer to the correct documentation for your version of FlexNet Manager Suite.
• The system must have completed at least one successful import of the Application Recognition Library.
• You must have completed at least one full inventory import, including successful recognition of at least some installed applications, so that appropriate data is available for export from FlexNet Manager Suite.
• You must have an access token that the Inventory Export Tool uses to authenticate with Software Vulnerability Manager. If you do not already have this token, a summary is provided in the following process description.