Activity Log

FlexNet Manager Suite 2022 R1 (On-Premises)
The Activity Log page displays the detailed information about the system-level activities (such as a Beacon upgrade) performed on FlexNet Manager Suite. This page appears when you navigate to the system menu ( in the top right corner), System Health, and select Activity Log. You can also view this page by clicking the View activity log link on the Status tab of the discovered device properties page. Unlike the System Tasks page (which displays the task and sub-task status), this page displays the status of every system-level activity performed to complete a system task or sub-task. Some of the following details are displayed by default on this page whereas others are available through the column chooser. For more information about using lists, filters, and other UI options, see the topics under Using Lists in FlexNet Manager Suite. The Save view as feature of FlexNet Manager Suite enables you to create customized management views of a page by saving the applied user interface settings. For more information, see Creating Management Views. FlexNet Manager Suite generates the value for each of the following fields:
Note: Flexera recommends you to use the Activity Log page only when the task is not tracked on the System Tasks page.
Table 1. List of columns on the Activity Log page
Column Description
Activity
Displays the type of activity performed on the discovered device. This field can have the following values:
  • Active Directory — Indicates an Active Directory data collection activity
  • ARL importApplication Recognition Library import
  • Beacon activity — Indicates an activity performed by an inventory beacon
  • Beacon upgrade — Indicates beacon version upgrade
  • Business import — Indicates business data import through an inventory beacon, using business adapters like BMC Discovery or HPUD
  • Business import on App server — Indicates business data import through Data inputs, Business Data Upload page
  • Compliance upload — Indicates an upload of inventory files
  • Data warehouse export — Indicates data export from beacon to processing server
  • Discovery and inventory rule — Indicates an execution of discovery and inventory rules
  • Enterprise group one-off upload — Indicates business data import through the Enterprise group upload section of the Data inputs, Business Data Upload page
  • Inventory import — Indicates an inventory import
  • Policy download — Indicates a Beacon policy download
  • Purchase order one-off upload — Indicates a purchase order data import through the User assignment upload section of the Data inputs, Business Data Upload page
  • PVU import — Indicates a PVU import
  • Reconciliation — Indicates reconciliation on FlexNet Manager Suite server
  • SAML authentication — Indicates a SAML authentication activity
  • SAP import — Indicates data import from SAP system
  • Unknown — Unknown activity
  • User assignment one-off upload — Indicates business data import through the User assignment upload section of the Data inputs, Business Data Upload page.
Source type
Displays the source of data for an activity. This field can have the following values:
  • ARL importApplication Recognition Library import
  • Authentication — User authentication activity
  • Baseline import — Purchase and licensing data import from a Microsoft License Statement (MLS)
  • Beacon — An inventory beacon import
  • Business import — Data import from business systems
  • Inventory import — Inventory import
  • SAP import — Data import from SAP system
  • Timed out — The FlexNet Manager Suite database support task failed to complete and is assumed to have timed out.
Source name Displays the name of the source for an activity.
Level Displays the severity level of the activity. This field can have the following values:
  • Critical error
  • Error
  • Information
  • Warning.
Activity time Indicates the date and time of the activity.
Description Describes the action performed on the discovered device.
Target type Specifies the type of target device for the activity. This field can have the following values:
  • Beacon
  • FNMPServer
  • InventoryConnection
  • Rule.
Target name The name of the target device for an activity.

FlexNet Manager Suite (On-Premises)

2022 R1