IT Asset Management (Cloud)
Accounts
To complete the following installation process, you must have both:
After installation and configuration, the FlexNet Beacon Engine operates as a long-running service to gather and upload data. During installation, this service is automatically configured to run under the local SYSTEM
account (the default and recommended configuration). If you have reason to manually configure different credentials (perhaps to manage access through a proxy server), be aware that these manually-configured credentials for running the service are reset to SYSTEM
at each automatic update to an inventory beacon.
Therefore manually configured credentials must be manually reconfigured after each
automatic upgrade of the FlexNet Beacon software.
The automatic upgrade process will also reset any Upload tasks created in the Windows
Task Scheduler to run under the
SYSTEM
account. If you have
customized these tasks to run under different credentials, you will need to manually
reconfigure them after each automatic upgrade of the
FlexNet Beacon
software.
Tip: IT Asset Management supports automatic updating
of
inventory beacons (see
Upgrading Inventory Beacons). You can
configure the automatic self-update behavior in the following situations:
- For all inventory beacons, go to the
Inventory Settings page.
- For individual inventory beacons where that is more
convenient, go to to edit the properties of your selected inventory beacon.
- If you are a customer of IT Visibility only, go to .
- If you are a customer of both IT Visibility and IT Asset Management, you
can either go to or go to .
Other requirements
If this inventory beacon is to gather inventory from Office 365 in
the cloud, the prerequisite software is available only for 64-bit architectures, so
that this inventory beacon must be a 64-bit device. (Further details
included in the process below, or review Prerequisites for Inventory Beacons.)
The installer for the inventory beacon software is downloaded
from IT Asset Management. You may need to modify your browser security settings
to allow trusted access to that URL.
Use the following process either for first-time installation of a new inventory beacon, or for manually updating an old inventory beacon.
To download and install the FlexNet Beacon software on a beacon
server:
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Take note of the URL where you access IT Asset Management.
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Move to the computer where you are installing the inventory beacon software, and open a supported web browser there.
On server-based operating systems, you normally need to modify security
settings to allow access using Microsoft Edge to IT Asset Management, as
follows:
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In Microsoft Edge, press ALT + F to open the
tool menu, and then select .
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Select the Security tab.
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Select the Trusted sites zone, and click
Sites.
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In the Add this website to the zone field, add
the following URLs, and then click Add:
- https://app.flexera.com
- https://app.flexera.eu
- https://app.flexera.au
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Click Close.
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Clikc OK.
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In the web browser, access one of the following URLs and log in with your
Flexera One credentials:
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Go to . If you are a customer of both IT Asset Management and IT
Visibility, you can also choose to go to .
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Click Download a beacon. The
Installers page appears.
Tip: This button is displayed only to members of the
Administrator role.
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In the Beacon Installer section, from the
Version dropdown list, select the appropriate version
of the FlexNet Beacon software.
Note: The shared services edition of FlexNet Beacon is supported only for
version 14.2.0 and later.
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Click Download and save the file to your selected
directory on the inventory beacon server.
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The downloaded file is an executable called
BeaconInstallerversion.exe, where the version matches
the version number you selected for download.
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Double-click the downloaded executable.
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Accept the license agreement to proceed with the installation.
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Accept a Typical installation for all defaults.
Important: If this
inventory beacon
will import inventory collected by ILMT, or collect data from Oracle servers,
follow the links provided in the wizard to ensure that the appropriate drivers
are installed on the
inventory beacon. In addition, if this
inventory beacon is to collect inventory from an Office 365
connection, the following prerequisites must be satisfied (and noting that the
order of installation of prerequisite software may be significant):
- You have licensed the FlexNet Manager for Datacenters product (visible only
on the central application server)
- The inventory beacon that will collect inventory for
Office 365 in the cloud has a 64-bit operating system: Windows Server
2008 R2 SP1 or later, or Windows 7 SP1 or later (prerequisite software
is not available for 32-bit architectures)
- Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.7.0 or later
Tip: If this
is not already installed, the Skype for Business Online, Windows
PowerShell Module (below) automatically installs it. Installation of
this .NET version requires that the server is rebooted
afterward.
- PowerShell 5.1 or later, with the PowerShell execution policy set to
RemoteSigned
Tip: Run PowerShell with
administrator rights to execute the following commands:
To check
the currently-installed version of
PowerShell:
$PSVersionTable.PSVersion
To
set PowerShell execution policy:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable is installed on the inventory beacon
Tip: This may be automatically installed by
the installation of the PowerShell module above.
- Skype for Business Online, Windows PowerShell Module 64-bit version
(https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39366)
- An active Internet connection with JavaScript enabled allowing
connection to the Microsoft Office 365 Portal at https://portal.office.com/admin/default.aspx.
Note:
- In the Reporting Endpoint page, the
Suite Path setting must remain at the
default value Suite.
- On the Configure Scheduled Tasks page (in the
standard installation), you are managing tasks for catch-up
uploading of inventory and staged data imports. Select a service
account that has access to the upload destination (where this is a parent
inventory beacon).
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On the Ready to Install the Program page, click
Install.
When installation is complete, you must configure connections for this
inventory beacon. Connections are required for:
IT Asset Management (Cloud)
Current