Flexera Analytics to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications

Flexera Analytics will initiate a connection to FNMEA primarily to authenticate against the users and roles as defined in FNMEA. Follow the steps below to ensure that this action takes place using HTTP.

To set up the HTTP/SSL connection from Flexera Analytics to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications

1.

Edit the file flexnet.properties by doing the following:

a.

Navigate to the Flexera Analytics installation directory.

<installation_dir>\bin64\configuration

b.

Open the file flexnet.properties in a text editor.

c.

Edit the value for the attribute server.host to point to the URL and the HTTP port number of the Admin server. For example:

server.host=http://<IP_address/host_name>:8888

2.

Create a keystore containing the certificate that the admin server will use. This can be done with the command:

keytool.exe -keystore keystore -import -file c:\cert.crt

where:

•

"keytool.exe" is the keytool program under Cognos's jvm\bin folder

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"cert.crt" is the certificate used by the admin server

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"keystore" is a keystore file called keystore in Cognos's bin64 folder.

This will create a file called "keystore", containing the certificate needed to connect to the administration server. This will be created in the bin64 directory under the location where Flexera Analytics is installed.

3.

Go to the Cognos Configuration tool and click the Start button to bring up the Cognos Server.

After the Flexera Analytics (Cognos) server is started, the Authenticator is now communicating with the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin via SSL.