Summary

This article covers how to configure replication settings on the FlexNet Manager Suite inventory server to save copies of agent files as they are uploaded.

This can be useful to allow inspection of details in uploaded files, or gathering files for troubleshooting purposes.

Files that can be gathered through this way include inventory (*.ndi) files and usage (*.mmi) files.

Details

The FlexNet Manager Suite inventory server has a setting called UseReplication that is disabled by default.

On inventory servers (and beacon versions prior to 17.3), this setting can be enabled with the following steps:

1. Open Microsoft Internet Information Services Manager (IIS) on the server
   
   
2. Expand the tree on the left and click on the ManageSoftRL virtual directory
   
   
3. Double-click Application Settings as shown in the screenshot:
   
    
4. Set the value of the following settings:
   1. UseReplication = true
   2. ReplicationLocation to the full directory path where you would like uploaded files to be saved (defaults in C:\Replication)
      
      
   For example:

Alternatively, instead of modifying these setting from the IIS interface, you can configure them by directly editing the web.config file for the ManageSoftRL virtual directory. This file can be found in (by default) in C:\Program Files (x86)\Flexera Software\FlexNet Manager Platform\Importers.

<!-- Replication -->
<add key="UseReplication" value="true" />
<!-- Replication -->
<add key="ImportTypesForReplication" value="logs, inventories" />
<!-- Replication Location -->
<add key="ReplicationLocation" value="c:\Replication" />

Additional Information

The ImportTypesForReplication setting is a comma-separated list that should include one or more of the following values to specify which types of files should be saved:

• logs
• inventories
• usagedata
• vdiaccess
• discovery
• activedirectory
• beaconstatus
• activitystatus
• remoteapplication
• ClientAccess

Enabling replication on beacons