Tanium Connector Architecture

FlexNet Manager Suite 2021 R1 (On-Premises)

This topic provides a useful framework for understanding the workflow of the Tanium connector in more detail.

The above diagram shows the workflow for the connector:

Tanium

• Creating the Flexera Destination creates most of the required views and reports automatically
• Tanium views named as Flexera * are used for importing data from Tanium Asset to FlexNet Manager Suite Imported* tables, with the data later moved into the compliance database tables.
• The following Tanium views used for importing data:
  • Flexera Computer — contains Computer, User, Domain and WMI evidence data
  • Flexera Software Installations — contains installer evidence data
  • Flexera File Evidence — contains file evidence data
  • Flexera Network Adapter — contains IP address and mac address 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

• The inventory beacon connects to Tanium to perform the inventory upload
• Data is collected from the above-mentioned views through REST API calls, and the inventory beacon creates an intermediate zip file.

FlexNet Manager Suite

• The intermediate zip file is pushed from the inventory beacon hierarchy to FlexNet Manager Suite, and the database writers move the uploaded data into the compliance database).
• Once data is imported, this inventory is matched to the Application Recognition Library, and license compliance is calculated.