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Snow Inventory Server 5

Application Server (Master Server)

Component

Requirements

Operating system

Microsoft Windows Server with Desktop Experience

Note

Snow supports Windows Server versions and editions that have not reached end of mainstream support nor retirement. See the Microsoft Lifecycle Product End of Support overview page for details. For server-hardware requirements, please follow server recommendations for Snow License Manager 9.

Processor architecture

x64 (64-bit); Itanium-based systems are not supported.

Installed software

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (required for Snow Update Service)

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

Microsoft PowerShell 4.0 or later (included in Windows Server 2012 R2 and later)

Server configuration

To enable Snow Update Service to download software updates, HTTPS outbound communication needs to be allowed on port 443.

Application Server (Service Gateway)

Component

Requirements

Operating System

Microsoft Windows Server with Desktop Experience

Note

Snow supports Windows versions and editions that have not reached end of mainstream support nor retirement. See the Microsoft Lifecycle Product End of Support overview page for details. For server-hardware requirements, please follow server recommendations for Snow License Manager 9.

Processor architecture

x64 (64-bit); Itanium-based systems are not supported.

Installed software

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

To enable use of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 protocol for SHA512 certificates, install this update for the Windows operating system: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2973337/sha512-is-disabled-in-windows-when-you-use-tls-1-2

Database server

Component

Requirements

Operating system

Microsoft Windows Server

Note

Snow supports Windows Server versions and editions that have not reached end of mainstream support nor retirement. See the Microsoft Lifecycle Product End of Support overview page for details. For server-hardware requirements, please follow server recommendations for Snow License Manager 9.

Any other operating system that is supported by SQL Server, including Linux for SQL Server.

Processor architecture

x64 (64-bit); Itanium-based systems are not supported.

Database

Microsoft SQL Server

Note

Snow supports Windows SQL Server versions and editions that have not reached end of extended support nor retirement; see exceptions below. See the Microsoft SQL Server end of support options page for details.

  • Express editions not supported

  • Case sensitive collations not supported

  • Availability groups for high availability (HA) not supported

  • The Snow Inventory database and the Snow License Manager database need to use the same collation.

Database configuration

SQL Server authentication must be enabled.

Admin Console (Windows application only)

Component

Minimum requirements

Operating system

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016

Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or 10

RAM

4 GB or greater

Installed software

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

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