Default location of files

The table below shows the default locations of the binary files and log files of Snow Inventory Agent for macOS after an installation using a prepared installation package.

File name	Directory	Description
snowagent	/opt/snow	The Snow Inventory Agent binary file
snowagent.config	/opt/snow	The Snow Inventory Agent configuration file
*.snowpack	/opt/snow/data	The inventory result file
snowagent.log	/opt/snow/data	The Snow Inventory Agent log file
.hst.lg	/opt/snow/data	The log file for information on installation date and last scan date
xMetering2	/opt/snow	The metering binary file
*.met	/opt/snow/data	The metering result file
metering.log	/opt/snow/data	The metering log file
cloudmeteringhost	/opt/snow	The file is used by the cloud application metering feature.
FFCloudmetering.xpi	/opt/snow	The cloud application metering browser extension for Mozilla Firefox. For more information, see Browser extensions.

Temporary files are by default located in the /tmp/snow directory and will be deleted when no longer needed.

note

In addition to the above mentioned files, other files may be deployed with the agent installation package, like Snow-maintained scanning modules or other third-party extensions.

The Snow Inventory Java Scanner artifacts are part of the scanning modules. For more information on the scanner, see Snow Inventory Java Scanner.