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
| Component | Requirements |
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| Operating system (Embedded and IoT Core versions not supported) | Snow supports Windows versions and editions that have not reached end of mainstream support nor retirement. See the Microsoft Lifecycle Product End of Support overview page for details. Note: Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable is required to be installed on Windows. This is, by default, installed with Windows. |
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| PowerShell scripting support | PowerShell 3 to PowerShell 5.1 |
| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Supported technologies (protocols):
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| Virtual application technologies | The agent supports scanning virtual applications packaged using the following technologies:
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| Cloud Application Discovery and Metering | Snow supports the following browsers for any version that the manufacturer supports:
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| Web application metering | To 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
| Component | Requirements |
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| Installed software | The 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:
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Snow Inventory Agent for macOS, versions 6 and 7
| Component | Requirements |
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| OS Version | Snow supports macOS versions that have not reached end of support with Apple. |
| Processor architecture | Supported processor architecture:
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| Cloud Application Discovery and Metering | Snow supports the following browsers for any version that the manufacturer supports:
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Snow Inventory Agent for Linux, versions 6 and 7
| Component | Requirements |
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| Operating system | The agent is tested on the latest versions of the following distributions, as they are available at the agent release date:
Some Linux distributions might implement some of the commands used by the agent in a customized way. This can lead to limited scan results. |
| Processor architecture | x86-64 (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
| Component | Requirements |
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| Oracle DB version | One of the following:
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| Oracle DB edition | One of the following:
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| Installed software | Snow 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:
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Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner 8
| Component | Requirements |
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| Oracle DB version | One of the following:
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| Oracle DB edition | One of the following:
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| Installed software | Snow 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:
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Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner 3
| Component | Requirements |
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| Installed software | Snow 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:
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Snow Inventory Oracle Hardware Scanner 2
| Component | Requirements |
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| Installed software | Snow 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:
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Snow Inventory Java Scanner 3
| Component | Requirements |
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| Installed software | Snow 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:
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