The FlexNet inventory agent

FlexNet Manager Suite 2021 R1 (On-Premises)

The FlexNet inventory agent is a standard component of any installation of FlexNet Beacon, and of the application server that is included with FlexNet Manager Suite. For this reason, the necessary files are not included in the BMC Discovery adapter zip archive, since they are already present in any standard product implementation. Installation to suit the BMC Discovery adapter is described in Installing the FlexNet inventory agent.

For use on Linux or UNIX platforms, the agent has two component files:

• ndtrack.sh, an agent responsible for collecting inventory details (in this case, from the BMC Discovery inventory system) and writing them in an intermediate format to a data file, ready for upload to an application server. The script has no active elements until it is triggered by BMC Discovery through one of the enhanced collection patterns.
• ndtrack.ini, a text file that contains configuration variables for ndtrack.sh.

The combined disk space requirement of both files is under 13MB.

Important: Inventory fails to upload from FlexNet inventory agent if the account running ndtrack.sh has a hash (#) character in the user name. The hash (#) character is not permitted, and causes failure of the upload of the generated .ndi files to the application server.