How Direct Collection of Oracle Inventory Works

FlexNet Manager Suite 2021 R1 (On-Premises)

In the direct inventory collection method, the FlexNet Beacon engine on an inventory beacon connects directly to an Oracle server that lies within its assigned subnet(s) (or, in the special case of Amazon RDS, in its assigned cloud region), and collects only Oracle Database inventory. While the direct connection step in itself is relatively straight-forward, it must be preceded by your choice of discovery method used to identify the target Oracle server. For completeness, each of these discovery methods is covered in the following topics, and you may focus only on your chosen discovery method together with the subsequent direct inventory collection. The four discovery methods are:

• Network scanning (see Using Network Discovery with Direct Inventory)
• Processing tnsnames.ora files, whether these be copied from your Oracle server(s), created with the OEM adapter, or even edited manually (see Using tnsnames Discovery with Direct Inventory)
• Manually creating discovered device records including the necessary connection information (see Using Manual Discovery with Direct Inventory)
• Using the Amazon connector to discover installations of Oracle Database in Amazon RDS and create discovered device and inventory device records for each case; and then using the discovered device records to target for direct inventory collection.