Improvements to agent configurations offer greater support for IBM PVU, Oracle, Containers, and Encryption

Note:These enhancements are available with IT Visibility.

IT Visibility is delivering a host of Inventory agent u ser experience improvements for IT Asset Management customers. These improvements appear in Inventory Agent Configuration settings.

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IBM PVU—There is a new user experience for setting IBM PVU inventory scanning frequency, for gathering inventory from virtual servers, and for controlling inventory scans by group.

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Oracle Audit Data—You can now choose to enable collection of Oracle audit data for Oracle Fusion Middleware and/or Oracle Java from within an agent configuration.

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Containers—This release also delivers the ability to enable inventory scanning within Docker containers from within an agent configuration.

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Encryption—This new capability has been added to the inventory agent configurations that allows you to enable AES 256 encryption of the inventory files being collected by the agent (as well as from the beacon through remote execution) from within the default agent configuration. This capability encrypts the inventory data on the machine hosting the beacon and helps prevent inventory files from being viewed or modified by malicious actors.

When enabled, the files that will be encrypted include the following:

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NDI, MMI, disco.gz, and swacc files generated by the Flexera Agent

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NDI, disco.gz, activity, and bstat files generated by the Flexera Beacon

To use this encryption capability, all of the agents and beacons in your environment must be upgraded to at least version 21.0.

Note:Configuration changes for IBM PVU and encryption appear in a new Common Settings section of the Default Agent configuration settings. The options in the Common Settings section are only editable in the agent’s Default Configuration.

For more information about the inventory agent configuration changes, see Inventory Agent Options in the Flexera One Help.