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Prerequisites

The prerequisites and requirements for installing and running Snow Inventory Agent for Linux are described below.

Dependency on other Snow products​

The Linux agent must be used with Snow Inventory Server 5 or 6, or alternatively, if your environment is on Snow Atlas, with Snow Extender.

Supported operating systems​

For information on supported operating systems, see System Requirements.

Oracle database inventory​

The Linux agent is able to run the Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner. For additional prerequisites and configuration settings, see Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner (SIOS).

Hardware inventory requirements​

To gather hardware information, the Linux agent uses the dmidecode command which must be installed on the target computers.