Tanium Adapter Architecture
IT Asset Management
(Cloud)
This topic provides a useful framework for understanding the workflow of the Tanium adapter in more detail.

The above diagram shows the workflow for the adapter:
Tanium
- Creating the Flexera Destination creates most of the required views and reports automatically
- Tanium views named as
Flexera *
are used for importing data from Tanium Asset to IT Asset Management Imported* tables, with the data later moved into the compliance database tables. - The following Tanium views used for importing data:
Flexera Computer
— contains Computer, User, Domain and WMI evidence dataFlexera Software Installations
— contains installer evidence dataFlexera File Evidence
— contains file evidence dataFlexera Network Adapter
— contains IP address and mac address data for each computerFlexera SQL Edition
— contains SQL-related installer evidence data.Note: You must create this view manually, if the view does not exist. See Creating a Flexera SQL Edition view within Tanium Asset for instructions.
Tip: Flexera reports in Tanium Asset enable crosschecking of the
data between Tanium and IT Asset Management once the import is complete.
Beacon
- The inventory beacon connects to Tanium to perform the inventory upload
- Data is collected from the above-mentioned views through REST API calls, and the inventory beacon creates an intermediate zip file.
IT Asset Management
- The intermediate zip file is pushed from the inventory beacon hierarchy to IT Asset Management, and the database writers move the uploaded data into the compliance database).
- Once data is imported, this inventory is matched to the Application Recognition Library, and license compliance is calculated.
IT Asset Management (Cloud)
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