Snow Inventory Agents and Oracle Scanner
Snow Inventory 5 and 6 Agents for Windows
Component | Requirements |
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Operating system (Embedded and IoT Core versions not supported) | For Snow Inventory 5 and 6 Agent for Windows, 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. NoteMicrosoft Visual C++ Redistributable is required to be installed on Windows for Snow Inventory 5 and 6 Agents for Windows. This is, by default, installed with Windows. |
Processor architecture |
NoteItanium-based systems are not supported. |
PowerShell scripting support | PowerShell 3 to PowerShell 5.1 |
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Supported technologies (protocols):
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Virtual application technologies | The agent supports scanning virtual applications packaged using the following technologies:
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Cloud Application Discovery and Metering | Snow supports the following browsers for Snow Inventory Agent 6 for Windows, for any version that the manufacturer supports:
Snow supports the following browsers for Snow Inventory Agent 5 for Windows, for any version that the manufacturer supports:
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Web application metering | To measure usage of a web application using the feature Web application metering, the client running the agent must connect directly to the web application server. That is, the connection must not be mediated by a proxy server. |
Snow Inventory 5 and 6 Agents for Unix
Component | Requirements |
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Operating system |
NoteSnow only supports installations of Snow Inventory Agent for Unix on operating-system versions that are supported by their vendors. |
Installed software | The Snow Inventory Agent for Unix is a Java-based application and therefore requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Java 6, 7, and 8 are supported The following implementations of Java 6, 7, and 8 are supported:
NoteJava Runtime Environment 1.7.0_7 must not be used due to a bug in the Java implementation. Java 6 is not recommended and should not be used due to low performance. It is recommended to use Java 7 or Java 8. |
Snow Inventory Agent for Unix 7
Component | Requirements |
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Operating system |
NoteSnow only supports installations of Snow Inventory Agent for Unix on operating-system versions that are supported by their vendors. |
Installed software | The Snow Inventory Agent for Unix is a Java-based application and therefore requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Java 8 and later are supported The following implementations of Java are supported:
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Snow Inventory 5 and 6 Agents for macOS
Component | Requirements |
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OS Version | For Snow Inventory Agent 5 and 6 for macOS, Snow supports macOS versions that have not reached end of support with Apple. |
Processor architecture | Supported processor architecture for Snow Inventory 6 Agent for macOS:
Supported processor architecture for Snow Inventory 5 Agent for macOS:
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Cloud Application Discovery and Metering | Snow supports the following browsers for Snow Inventory Agent 6 for macOS, for any version that the manufacturer supports:
Snow supports the following browsers for Snow Inventory Agent 5 for macOS, for any version that the manufacturer supports:
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Snow Inventory 5 and 6 Agents for Linux
Component | Requirements |
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Operating system | The Snow Inventory Agent for Linux is tested on the latest versions of the following distributions, as they are available at the Agent release date:
The agent also runs on other distributions if those fulfill the following requirements:
The following libraries are used by the agent and required for it to work:
NoteThese libraries are installed by default in most Linux distributions. In addition to being installed, they also need to be available to the agent. That is, the system should not be configured to hide these specific libraries. Some Linux distributions might implement some of the commands used by Snow Inventory Agent for Linux in a customized way. This can lead to scan results that are limited. |
Processor architecture | x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64 and Intel 64) x86 (also known as IA-32, and i386) |
Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner 5, 6, and 7
Component | Requirements |
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Oracle DB version | One of the following:
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Oracle DB edition | One of the following:
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Installed software | Snow Inventory Agent for Oracle Scanner is run as a module to Snow Inventory Agent for Windows, Snow Inventory Agent for Unix, or Snow Inventory Agent for Linux. Note that Snow Inventory Agent for macOS does not support Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner. The Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner is a Java-based application and therefore requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). The following implementations of Java 6, 7, and 8 are supported:
NoteJava Runtime Environment 1.7.0_7 must not be used due to a bug in the Java implementation. |
Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner 8
Component | Requirements |
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Oracle DB version | One of the following:
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Oracle DB edition | One of the following:
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Installed software | Snow Inventory Agent for Oracle Scanner is run as a module to Snow Inventory Agent for Windows, Snow Inventory Agent for Unix, or Snow Inventory Agent for Linux. Note that Snow Inventory Agent for macOS does not support Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner. The Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner is a Java-based application and therefore requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). The following implementations of Java 8, 11, and 17 are supported:
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