Connection Properties

Important: The inventory beacon information in this section is specific to IT Visibility only. For related information, refer to Uploading Inventory Data into IT Visibility. For help using inventory beacons with IT Asset Management, refer to Using IT Asset Management Inventory Beacons to Collect Inventory.

The page of connection properties is named for the connection being examined. This page is accessible only by clicking the connection Name in the Imports page. See Third Party Imports Page for details.

There are two tabs available on this page:

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The Details tab repeats properties also available in the Imports page.

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The History tab lists all recent imports from this same connection.

Details

This tab provides a summary of key properties for the connection, and for the last import through it (these values are always from the last import for this connection, no matter which import in the Imports page you clicked to open these properties).

If you have sufficient privileges, you can also use the Delete Connection button to remove this connection from its inventory beacon record.

Tip:Be careful, as there is no confirmation required. Clicking this button immediately deletes the connection from the inventory beacon record.

Important:Notice that this button removes the connection details from the database, but does not update the inventory beacon itself. To fully remove a connection, you must both use this button (to update the records) and visit the inventory beacon to delete the connection from the Inventory Systems page in the FlexNet Beacon interface (remember that FlexNet Beacon must be run as administrator). Be sure to do both these steps around the same time, because if another inventory import occurs through the same connection on the inventory beacon, and its data is uploaded, the database record for the connection used is automatically restored in the central repository.

All properties from this tab are listed here in alphabetical order.

Details Tab

Property	Description
Beacon	The name of the inventory beacon, created when you registered the newly-installed inventory beacon with Flexera One (see Configuring IT Visibility Beacon to Upload Inventory to Flexera One for details). This is the same value as displayed in the Name column of the Beacons listing. It cannot be edited through this web interface (if change is required, you must log into FlexNet Beacon on the inventory beacon, and re-register with a new name).
Devices Normalized	The number of device records successfully processed in the normalization stage. This typically excludes any unchanged device records, and so is often fewer than the total number of records processed.
Elapsed Time	The overall elapsed time (to the nearest second) for the entire import process, including collecting the data on the inventory beacon, uploading it to Flexera One, and normalizing with other data already available. This repeats the IMPORT > ELAPSED TIME column in the Imports listing.
Last Run	The date and time (to the nearest minute) when the last import commenced through this connection.
Source Type	The information source used for this connection. For example, when gathering inventory from Microsoft SCCM, this value shows SCCM.
Status	The overall result of the last import through this connection. Possible values include: • In Progress (you can check the Elapsed Time for a quick look at how long this stage/process has taken so far) • Failed—If the Summary does not provide sufficient insight, you may need to look back to the Imports listing to inspect results for the individual stages in the process to see which part failed. • Completed
Summary	A text explanation of results for the last import. Typical summaries include: • This is a duplicate inventory connection, only one per type is supported. If an illegal duplicate connection is detected, its upload to Flexera One is automatically failed. • Uploaded: XXX... This is the normal summary after a successful process. The various elements are: • Uploaded—The total number of inventory records transferred in this transaction. This is equal to the sum of the new, updated, and unchanged records that follow in the summary. • Imported new—New records were created for inventory items not previously uploaded. • Unchanged—Records that have been previously uploaded, and are still present in this import, are preserved. • Updated—An imported datapoint matched a previous record, but some changed attributes were identified, and the record was updated with these new values. • Deleted—Records imported in previous runs from this connection were not found in this latest import. When records go missing from the same inventory connection, it is assumed that there has been some cleanup in your environment, and the old record is deleted to match its absence in the latest import. • Login failed for user 'accountName'. There is a possible connection type mismatch: check that the database is of the correct connection type. Report this error to Flexera Support. • An unexpected error occurred. Report this error to Flexera Support.
Task Type	The purpose of the last import through this connection. Typically this purpose remains the same for all imports through the same connection, with the most common type being Inventory import.
Total Resources Ingested	The total number of device records processed. In general, this is the same as the number of records uploaded. Any difference means that one or more records were corrupted or otherwise unacceptable.

History

This tab lists all imports from this connection named in the page title. The listing here is very similar to the listing in the Imports page, except that where the Imports page includes all connections, this history is restricted to imports through this single connection. Other differences are:

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It does not have a column for the connection name (since everything here is about the one connection, identified at the top of the page)

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It does not show the source type (for which see the Details tab)

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It adds a link to download the log file for each of the listed imports.

The available columns are listed here alphabetically. Since several of the columns (such as Status) are repeated in multiple groups, each is listed here just once, with any differences across groups noted in the description. To revise details on how to manage columns in this listing, refer back to Third Party Imports Page.

History Tab

Property	Description
Beacon	The name of the inventory beacon, created when you registered the newly-installed inventory beacon with Flexera One (see Configuring IT Visibility Beacon to Upload Inventory to Flexera One for details). This is the same value as displayed in the Name column of the Beacons listing. It cannot be edited through this web interface (if change is required, you must log into FlexNet Beacon on the inventory beacon, and re-register with a new name).
Elapsed Time	The difference between the starting and ending date/times for this stage of the process. However, since this value resolves to the nearest second (and the other values resolve only to the nearest minute), you can often get a non-zero value here when the corresponding Start Date and End Date display identical values.
End Date	The date and time (to the nearest minute) when the given part of the process finished (or the value is blank if this part of the process is not yet finished). If each stage completes in a matter of seconds (as is common), this value may show the same date/ time as the corresponding Start Date, because this stage of the process has used less than a full minute.
Logs	Contains a Download link for each import. Click the appropriate link to download the Bare Tail log file archive for the Extract Into Beacon stage of the particular import.
Start Date	The date and time (to the nearest minute) when the given part of the process commenced. Typically the values are identical for at least the Import group (the overall summary) and the Extract Into Beacon group (the first major step in the process). In fact, if each stage completes in a matter of seconds (as is common), all stages may show the same date/time, because the overall process has used less than a full minute.
Status	The high-level result for either the stage of the process (in any of the Extract Into Beacon, Upload To Flexera, or Normalize groups of columns), or for the process overall (in the Import group). Possible values include: • Blank when no response is available for a stage, or when the overall process is not yet resolved because a stage is still in progress • In Progress (you can check the Elapsed Time for a quick look at how long this stage/process has taken so far) • Failed—In the Upload To Flexera stage, there are two possible reasons for this value: • If an illegal inventory connection is detected, the upload is automatically and permanently failed. An example is a duplicate inventory connection of the same connection type as one previously existing. In this case, the Import > Summary column displays a message like This is a duplicate inventory connection, only one per type is supported. • There may be network or other failure that prevents the upload. • Completed  Tip:For the upload stage, a network failure is automatically followed by three retries at 10 minute intervals, allowing for recovery from intermittent networking issues. Therefore, while the initial network failure is made visible in this status value, a network “failure” in this stage is not a permanent failure until the elapsed time for the same stage is more than 30 minutes. For example, the upload stage may display Failed for 20 minutes, and then change to Completed if the second retry succeeds. Remember that for data updates like these, you must refresh the page, since data here is not dynamically updated once it has been displayed.
Summary	A text summary of the outcomes for a particular import. Tip:Use the column menu entry Autosize This Column to read the full text in each summary entry. Typical summaries include: • This is a duplicate inventory connection, only one per type is supported. If an illegal duplicate connection is detected, its upload to Flexera One is automatically failed. • Uploaded: XXX... This is the normal summary after a successful process. The various elements are: • Uploaded—The total number of inventory records transferred in this transaction. This is equal to the sum of the new, updated, and unchanged records that follow in the summary. • Imported new—New records were created for inventory items not previously uploaded. • Unchanged—Records that have been previously uploaded, and are still present in this import, are preserved. • Updated—An imported datapoint matched a previous record, but some changed attributes were identified, and the record was updated with these new values. • Deleted—Records imported in previous runs from this connection were not found in this latest import. When records go missing from the same inventory connection, it is assumed that there has been some cleanup in your environment, and the old record is deleted to match its absence in the latest import. • Login failed for user 'accountName'. There is a possible connection type mismatch: check that the database is of the correct connection type. Report this error to Flexera Support. • An unexpected error occurred. Report this error to Flexera Support.