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System Requirements

The system requirements provide the specifications of resources that you require for Snow Inventory Agents and Oracle Scanners.

Snow Inventory Agent for Windows, versions 6 and 7

ComponentRequirements
Operating system
(Embedded and IoT Core versions not supported)
For information on supported Windows versions and editions per agent version, see Compatibility Matrix.
Note: Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable is required to be installed on Windows. This is, by default, installed with Windows.
Processor architecture
  • x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64 and Intel 64)
  • x86 (also known as IA-32, and i386)
Note: Itanium-based systems are not supported.
PowerShell scripting supportPowerShell 3 to PowerShell 5.1
Virtual Desktop InfrastructureSupported technologies (protocols):
  • Citrix Virtual Desktops (RDP)
  • Citrix VDI-in-a-Box (RDP)
  • Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (RDP)
  • VMware Horizon View (RDP, PCoIP)
Virtual application technologiesThe agent supports scanning virtual applications packaged using the following technologies:
  • Citrix Virtual Apps
  • Microsoft App-V
  • VMware ThinApp
Cloud Application Discovery and MeteringFlexera supports the following browsers for any version that the manufacturer supports:
  • Google Chrome
  • Microsoft Edge (based on Chromium)
  • Mozilla Firefox
Web application meteringTo measure usage of a web application using the feature Web application metering, the client running the agent must connect directly to the web application server. That is, the connection must not be mediated by a proxy server.

Snow Inventory Agent for Unix, versions 7 and 8

ComponentRequirements
Operating systemFor information on supported operating systems per agent version, see Compatibility Matrix.
Installed softwareThe agent is a Java-based application and therefore requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
Java 8 and later are supported
The following implementations of Java are supported:
  • Oracle Java
  • OpenJDK
  • IBM Java on AIX
  • HP-UX Java.

Snow Inventory Agent for macOS, versions 6 and 7

ComponentRequirements
OS VersionFor information on supported macOS versions per agent version, see Compatibility Matrix.
Processor architectureSupported processor architecture:
  • x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64 and Intel 64)
  • ARM-based Apple M1 chip
Cloud Application Discovery and MeteringFlexera supports the following browsers for any version that the manufacturer supports:
  • Google Chrome
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Apple Safari
Flexera supports the following browsers for any version that the manufacturer supports:
  • Google Chrome

Snow Inventory Agent for Linux, versions 6 and 7

ComponentRequirements
Operating systemFor information on supported Linux distributions per agent version, see Compatibility Matrix.
Processor architecturex86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64 and Intel 64)
x86 (also known as IA-32, and i386)

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner 5, 6, and 7

ComponentRequirements
Oracle DB versionOne of the following:
  • Oracle Database 8, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, 18c, 19c
Oracle DB editionOne of the following:
  • Trusted Oracle Database 8 Enterprise Edition
  • Oracle Database Enterprise Edition
  • Oracle Database Express Edition
  • Oracle Database Standard Edition One
  • Oracle Database Standard Edition Two
  • Oracle Database Standard Edition
  • Oracle Database Personal Edition
Installed softwareSnow Inventory Agent for Oracle Scanner is run as a module to Snow Inventory Agent for Windows, Snow Inventory Agent for Unix, or Snow Inventory Agent for Linux. Note that Snow Inventory Agent for macOS does not support Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner.
The Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner is a Java-based application and therefore requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment.
The following implementations of Java 6, 7, and 8 are supported:
  • Oracle Java SE
  • OpenJDK
Note: Java Runtime Environment 1.7.0_7 must not be used due to a bug in the Java implementation.

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner 8

ComponentRequirements
Oracle DB versionOne of the following:
  • Oracle Database 8, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, 18c, 19c
Oracle DB editionOne of the following:
  • Trusted Oracle Database 8 Enterprise Edition
  • Oracle Database Enterprise Edition
  • Oracle Database Express Edition
  • Oracle Database Standard Edition One
  • Oracle Database Standard Edition Two
  • Oracle Database Standard Edition
  • Oracle Database Personal Edition
Installed softwareSnow Inventory Agent for Oracle Scanner is run as a module to Snow Inventory Agent for Windows, Snow Inventory Agent for Unix, or Snow Inventory Agent for Linux. Note that Snow Inventory Agent for macOS does not support Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner.
The scanner is a Java-based application and therefore requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment.
The following implementations of Java 8, 11, and 17 are supported:
  • Oracle Java SE
  • Oracle OpenJDK

Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner 3

ComponentRequirements
Installed softwareSnow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner is dependent on Snow Inventory Agents for Windows and Linux, version 6.0.0 or later, and Snow Inventory Agent for Unix, version 7.0.0 or later. Note that Snow Inventory Agent for macOS does not support Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner
The scanner is a Java-based application and therefore requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment.
The following implementations of Java 8, 11, and 17 are supported:
  • Oracle Java SE
  • Oracle OpenJDK

Snow Inventory Oracle Hardware Scanner 2

ComponentRequirements
Installed softwareSnow Inventory Oracle Hardware Scanner is dependent on Snow Inventory Agents for Windows and Linux, version 6.0.0 or later, and Snow Inventory Agent for Unix, version 7.0.0 or later. Note that Snow Inventory Agent for macOS does not support Snow Inventory Oracle Hardware Scanner
The scanner is a Java-based application and therefore requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment.
The following implementations of Java 8, 11, and 17 are supported:
  • Oracle Java SE
  • Oracle OpenJDK

Snow Inventory Java Scanner 3

ComponentRequirements
Installed softwareSnow Inventory Oracle Java Scanner is dependent on Snow Inventory Agents for Windows, Linux, and macOS version 6.0.0 or later, and Snow Inventory Agent for Unix, version 7.0.0 or later.
The scanner is a Java-based application and therefore requires to be executed in a Java Runtime Environment.
The following implementations of Java 8, 11, and 17 are supported:
  • Oracle Java SE
  • Oracle OpenJDK