FileWave TCP/IP Port Usage

By default the FileWave software listens on the TCP/IP ports listed below. These are the defaults and they can be configured to listen on different ports if required.
New ports numbers are in red.

FileWave Client Ports
20010 TCP/IP for monitor-client communication
20020 TCP/IP for Kiosk (fwgui to talk to client)

To uninstall Asset Trustee, delete the following files/folders associated per component.

Asset Trustee Inventory

Folders:
/Asset Trustee DataFolder
/Library/Reiceipts/AssetTrusteeInvenotory.pkg
/Library/WebServer/Documents
/Library/WebServer/imports
/Library/WebServer/ioncube
/Library/WebServer/lib
/Library/WebServer/logs
/Library/WebServer/prefs
/Library/WebServer/reports
/Library/WebServer/scans

For instructions on how to reset the MySQL root password, please see:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html

Configuring Inventory for OBDC queries.

In order to access your mySQL Inventory database through OBDC, you'll have to configure both the Inventory computer and the accessing (client) computer.

On the Inventory computer, configure mySQL for remote access. By default, mySQL will only allow the root@localhost user to access the mySQL database. To allow remote access to a user, do the following.

The Asset Trustee database contains valuable information, is easy to back up, and takes very little space. In short, there's virtually no reason not to back up your AT database periodically. This article will describe the steps to create an automated Asset Trustee database backup solution.

First, download this Script.

If you have MySQL 4.x from a previous version of Inventory, you must upgrade to MySql 5.x.

Deploying the Asset Trustee Scanner with FileWave is an easy and efficient way to get the scanner to all your clients. In this posting, we will discuss deploying the Scanner to OS X and Windows machines. Here are the steps:

OS X

1. Download the latest Scanner Update FileSet for OSX and import it into the FileWave Server. These can be found on this site, in the "Asset Trustee XXX Edition" Links. Here's what the initial Upgrade Fileset looks like: