Specifying the Version for Auto-Updates
FlexNet Manager Suite 2019 R1 (On-Premises Edition)
The upgrade of deployed FlexNet inventory agents is controlled by settings stored in
the central operations databases. For that reason, this procedure is initiated
on your batch server/reconciliation server (or whichever server
includes that functionality, such as your processing server, or application server in smaller implementations).
Tip: The database
setting grants permission (through policy) to the FlexNet inventory agents to
perform self-upgrades (or even downgrades) to the specified version. The
setting, therefore, can only be put into effect on those platforms where the
FlexNet inventory agent includes self-update functionality, and where new
versions of the FlexNet inventory agent are included in the operations databases
(these are normally updated as part of a product upgrade). Currently, FlexNet inventory agents on Debian or Ubuntu Linux do not include self-update
functionality. On these platforms, you can do any of:
You can change the settings for self-update of the FlexNet inventory agent in FlexNet Manager Suite (for details, see Inventory Agent for Automatic Deployment) or using the command-line utility
described below.- Deploy new versions of FlexNet inventory agent manually
- Use your preferred third-party deployment tool to publish updates to FlexNet inventory agents
- Uninstall the old version(s) of FlexNet inventory agent, and once again target the devices for adoption through FlexNet Manager Suite.
To configure FlexNet inventory agent self-updates by command-line utility:
Note: The change to a new
authorized version of the FlexNet inventory agent is applied globally. Each
installed FlexNet inventory agent receives the self-upgrade instruction in the same
policy update, at whatever time they collect it. This may result in many client
devices downloading, self-updating, and uploading new inventory in similar
timeframes.
For more information about the actions available with this
utility, use either of these commands:
.\ConfigureSystem.exe help
.\ConfigureSystem.exe help action-name