Prerequisites
The prerequisites and requirements for installing and running Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner are described below.
System requirements
Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner is dependent on Snow Inventory Agents for Windows, Linux, and Unix. It requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment. For information on required agent and Java versions, see System Requirements.
Permissions and environment variables
The operating system user running Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner needs the following permissions and environment variables, depending on the platform:
| Platform | Permissions and environment variables |
|---|---|
| Linux | Must have read permissions on all include paths defined in the snowagent.config file. Must have execute permissions on the opmnctl executable if present in some of the middleware installation locations. Must have write permissions to: /var/run/SnowSoftware/Inventory/Agent/script-output Must have sudo rights to the following operating system command, in order to automatically discover all running Oracle Middleware processes on the current server: ps -eaf The NOPASSWD option must be set in the sudoers file. Example: In the sudoers file for Linux, user snow has the rights to execute the command with sudo and no password: ## ## User privilege specification ## root ALL=(ALL) ALL snow ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ps -eaf |
| Unix | Must have read permissions on all include paths defined in the snowagent.config file. Must have execute permissions on the opmnctl executable if present in some of the middleware installation locations. Must have write permissions to: /var/tmp/SnowSoftware/Inventory/Agent/script-output Must have sudo rights to the following operating system command, in order to automatically discover all running Oracle Middleware processes on the current server: ps-eaf The NOPASSWD option needs to be set in the sudoers file. Example: In the sudoers file for Linux, user snow has the rights to execute the command with sudo and no password: ## ## User privilege specification ## root ALL=(ALL) ALL snow ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ps -eaf |
| Windows | Should run the component with an admin user account (Local Admin on the server). |