Commands used by the agent

Snow Inventory Agent for Unix must have access to the following commands, depending on the platform:

All platforms	AIX	HP-UX	Solaris
awk*	lparstat	adb	df
cut*	lsattr	cstm	hostid
domainname	lsdev	getconf	kstat
echo*	lslpp	ioscan	ls**
env	lswpar**	lsof	pkg
file**	prtconf**	machinfo	pkginfo
grep*	svmon	model	pkgchk
hostname		pfiles	prtconf
mount		ps	prtdiag
sort*		setbot	ps
sudo		sh	psrinfo
tail*		swlist	smbios
tr*			swap
uname			vmstat
wc*			zonename

Commands marked with '*' are used for parsing.

Commands marked with '**' require root privileges. The following data will be lost when not run as sudo or root:

Command	Platform	Data lost when not run as sudo or root
file	All	Installed software detection
lswpar	AIX	Workload partition detection
prtconf	AIX	System model, firmware version, machine serial number, processor (number of CPUs and clock speed), hostname, and memory (total physical and virtual) detection.
ls	Solaris	Running processes detection

See Run the agent according to the principle of least privileges for instructions on how to enable the Unix agent to run a complete scan without being run as a super-user.