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Prerequisites

The prerequisites and requirements for installing and running Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner are described below.

System requirements

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner is started from a Snow Inventory Agent for Windows, Linux, or Unix. It requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment. For information on required versions, see System Requirements.

Permissions and environment variables

If the operating system user running the Snow Inventory Agent is root, all users who run database instances must be members of the operating system DBA group. This is required to get folder permissions for the temp folder.

If the operating system user running the Snow Inventory Agent is not root, the user:

For Linux and Unix environments, the operating system user running Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner must have write permissions on the following directories:

  • on Linux: /var/run/SnowSoftware/Inventory/Agent/script-output

  • on Unix: /var/tmp/SnowSoftware/Inventory/Agent/script-output