Scanning of Uploaded Documents

FlexNet Manager Suite allows you to attach uploaded documents to various record-types (including assets, purchases, contracts, and licenses). Historically, there has been no security scanning of these documents: since they are your own documents within your own environment, they may perhaps be assumed to be safe. However, this is not always sufficient.

From the 2020 R2 release of FlexNet Manager Suite, you can configure on-demand scanning of every uploaded document, for those environments where greater security is required. The default behavior is that there is [still] no scanning of uploaded documents; so you need to decide whether to continue in this trusting manner, or turn on security scanning for all uploaded documents.

For full details, see the section Preventing Uploads of Malicious Files in the FlexNet Manager Suite System Reference (on-premises edition for release 2020 R2 or later), available through http:/docs.flexera.com in either PDF or HTML format. It may be worth reading that short section and making an informed decision before starting your upgrade, so that your design/plan for the upgrade is complete.

One part of the required security configuration is to set two registry keys with appropriate values: this can be done by script (for a 'silent' or scripted upgrade), or interactively. For manual or interactive setting, you may choose to put the required values in place during the upgrade process, or to wait until upgrade is completed and configure the registry again later. These settings are mentioned later in the appropriate place in the process, should you choose to include document scanning as part of your upgraded configuration.