Agent-based browser extensions
Snow offers agent-based browser extensions for Snow SaaS Management that discovers SaaS application usage in web browsers across your IT estate. The data is presented in the SaaS pages. The extensions require local installations, including Snow Inventory Agents and Snow Extenders.
Snow also offers browser extensions for SaaS that do not require agents. See Browser extension for more information.
Description
The browser extensions discovers SaaS applications, users, and user activity in web browsers across your IT estate. The collected data is consolidated and presented as discovered applications and users, and user activity, in SaaS. The browser extension has the discovery type Browser. See SaaS discovery and Data consolidation for more information.
Agent-based browser extensions require locally installed Snow Inventory Agents and their browser extensions to collect and process SaaS application usage data, and Snow Extenders to import the data into SaaS on Snow Atlas. See Cloud application metering for a technical description of agent-based browser extensions.
Configuration
For new Snow customers, with no previous on-premises installations of Snow's products, and for existing Snow customers, who have upgraded to SAM Core on Snow Atlas, the required configuration steps are described in Configure agent-based browser extensions.
For existing Snow customers with an on-premises Snow environment, but also Snow SaaS Management on Snow Atlas, the required configuration steps are described in Configure agent-based browser extensions for on-premises plus SaaS.
Tip
You can have both of Snow's browser extensions running in parallel. If you want to uninstall the agent-based extensions, see Disable cloud application metering.