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Prerequisites

The prerequisites and requirements for installing and running Snow Inventory Oracle Hardware Scanner are described below.

Dependency on other Snow products

Snow Inventory Oracle Hardware Scanner is dependent on Snow Inventory Agents for Windows and Linux version 6.0.0 or later and Snow Inventory Agent for Unix version 7.0.0 or later.

The scanner is triggered through a crontab job in Linux and Unix environments, and by a PowerShell script for Windows.

Java runtime environment

Snow Inventory Oracle Hardware Scanner requires Java Runtime Environment 8 (1.8), 11, or 17 installed on the target computer.

Supported versions of Java Runtime Environments are Oracle Java SE and Oracle OpenJDK (versions 8, 11, and 17).

Permissions and environment variables

The operating system user running Snow Inventory Oracle Hardware Scanner needs the following permissions and environment variables, depending on the platform:

Platform

Permissions and environment variables

Linux

Must have write permissions to: /var/run/SnowSoftware/Inventory/Agent/ script-output

Must have execute rights to the following operating system commands:

  • General commands:

    • /proc/cpuinfo

    • /usr/sbin/dmidecode

  • In case of LPAR:

    • /proc/ppc64/lparcfg

  • In case of Oracle VM for x86:

    • /usr/sbin/xm

    • /usr/sbin/xenpm

    • /usr/sbin/ovs-agent-db

    • /usr/local/bin/ovm-info

  • In case of Oracle Database Appliance:

    • /opt/oracle/oak/bin/oakcli

    • /opt/oracle/dcs/bin/odacli

  • In case of Oracle VM for x86, must have read permissions on the following files:

    • /OVS/Repositories/*/VirtualMachines

    • /OVS/running_pool/*/

    • /var/log/ovs-agent.log

  • In case of Linux KVM:

    • /usr/bin/lscpu

    • /usr/bin/numactl

    • /usr/bin/lstopo-no-graphics

    • /usr/bin/virsh

  • In case of Linux KVM, must have read permissions on the following files:

    • /etc/oracle-release

    • /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log

SunOS

Must have write permissions to: /var/tmp/SnowSoftware/Inventory/Agent/ script-output

Must have execute rights to the following operating system commands:

  • General commands:

    • /usr/sbin/prtconf

    • /usr/sbin/prtdiag

    • /usr/sbin/psrinfo

    • /usr/bin/kstat

    • /bin/kstat

    • /sbin/zonename

    • /usr/sbin/zoneadm

    • /usr/sbin/zonecfg

    • /usr/sbin/pooladm

  • In case of LDOM:

    • /usr/sbin/virtinfo

    • /usr/sbin/ldm

    • /opt/SUNWldm/bin/ldm

HP-UX

Must have write permissions to: /var/tmp/SnowSoftware/Inventory/Agent/ script-output

Must have execute rights to the following operating system commands:

  • General commands:

    • /usr/sbin/icapstatus

    • /usr/sbin/icod_stat

    • /usr/sbin/ioscan

    • /usr/bin/getconf

    • /usr/contrib/bin/machinfo

  • In case of an Itanium box:

    • /opt/hpvm/bin/hpvmstatus

    • /usr/sbin/setboot

  • In case of nPars:

    • /usr/sbin/parstatus

  • In case of vPars:

    • /usr/sbin/vparstatus

    • /usr/sbin/vparhwmgmt

  • In case of Secure Resource Partitions/HP Containers:

    • opt/hpsrp/bin/srp

AIX

Must have write permissions to: /var/tmp/SnowSoftware/Inventory/Agent/ script-output

Must have execute rights to the following operating system commands:

  • General commands:

    • /usr/sbin/lsdev

    • /usr/sbin/prtconf

    • /usr/bin/lparstat

    • /usr/bin/errpt

    • /usr/sbin/lsattr

    • /usr/sbin/lsdev

    • /usr/sbin/smtctl

Windows

Should run the component with an admin user account (Local Admin on the server).

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