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Snow Inventory Agent for Linux 1

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This version of the product is not supported anymore.

Here you can find the release notes for Snow Inventory Agent for Linux 1. You can find the old release notes on the Snow Globe.

You can find the release notes for Package Builder on Snow Atlas in the Snow Atlas section of this page.

1.9.02 latest​

Release date: 2017-02-14

New​

  • Added hypervisor-detection for Citrix XenServer. This will enhance Hypervisor, Manufacturer and Model information in Snow License Manager for Xen-virtualized Linux machines.

1.9.01​

Release date: 2016-11-29

Corrections​

  • Fixed an issue where open files were not scanned

1.9.0​

Release date: 2016-10-20

New​

  • Improved quality of software recognition for software titles using swtag and swidtag files

1.8.01​

Release date: 2016-05-26

New​

  • Verified compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 6.8 Beta

  • Integration with Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner (SIOS) 2.3, including updated Oracle database inventory scripts

Corrections​

  • Corrected a problem when fetching the network card interface information on OpenSuSE 13.1 (D5754)

  • Corrected a problem where xClient did not start on OpenSuSE 13.1, if there were another binary with similar name (D5748)

  • Corrected a problem when parsing a specific date and time format (D4910)

  • Corrected a problem where usernames longer than 8 characters were truncated (D4422)

1.8.00​

Release date: 2015-09-16

New​

  • Support for hardware and software scan on two additional distributions: CentOS and Linux Amazon AMI

  • Additional file systems to the default network exclusion list: Cifs, fs4 and fuseblk

Corrections​

  • The inventory file now generates correctly when running the Oracle scan without root (4942 & 4118)

  • Fixed a problem in the hardware scan that caused a time format error message in the log file (4910)

  • For some environments the scanning performance has been improved (4729, 4493 & 4912 )

  • Exclude folder functionality now works as intended (4699)

  • Fixed a problem with occasional crashes when scanning Jar files. (4473)

  • Red Hat Linux Server 6.4 now recognized as 64-bit (4465)

  • Fixed a problem where the client occasionally used too much memory during software scan (4418)

  • Fixed a problem with a setting to avoid CPU spikes (4331)

1.7.03​

Release date: 2015-04-30

Corrections​

  • Oracle Scanner – Not reading the full Linux user name (D3942, D4108, D4015)

  • Oracle Scanner – Configuring the ORACLE_HOME path with a Trailing slash “/” caused Oracle scanner to fail (D4077)

  • Oracle Scanner – The Oracle scanner did not manage inventory on all database instances on SAP systems in automatic mode (D4332)

1.7.02​

Release date: 2015-03-20

New​

  • Software install dates for software now reported from the RPM database

1.7.01​

Release date: 2015-02-04

New​

  • Enhanced support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 7.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

Corrections​

  • Linux machines not reporting NIC (D2369)

1.7.00​

Release date: 2014-11-13

New​

Corrections​

  • SUSE edition not detected correctly (D3412)

  • Oracle Linux 6.x reported as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x (D3352)

1.6.01​

Release date: 2014-04-24

New​

Corrections​

  • Problems with the SkipFolder and ScanFolder settings (3184)

  • Segmentation fault error message occurred when scanning (2599)

  • The DPKG database is never scanned (2383)

  • Can’t handle destination web service addresses in uppercase (2242)

  • Operating system information shows incorrectly (2223)

  • Destination web service address requires a capital I on “Inventory.asmx” (2005)

  • Only one NIC reported despite more being available (1456)

1.6.00​

Release date: 2013-11-20

New​

Corrections​

  • Incorrect number of processors and cores reported on some high-end hardware (D1371)

  • Only one NIC reported despite more being available (D1456)

  • .deb install warning: No valid Installed-Size control field (D1698)

  • In some scenarios the Snow Inventory Client for Linux used a lot of CPU (D1605)

  • In some scenarios the main user of the computer was not reported correctly.

1.5.00​

Release date: 2013-05-08

  • Please read the Release Notes for details.

1.4.05​

Release date: 2011-08-23

Corrections​

  • The client could leave a transaction lock on some versions of the RPM DB after a scan

  • Improved logic for handling problems with server communication

  • You do not have to end the configured paths to the options SetStorageFolder and SetTemporary paths with a ”/”

1.4.04​

Release date: 2011-08-17

New​

  • Added more logging for different problems with server communication

Corrections​

  • Upgrade problem in our RPM packages

1.4.03​

Release date: 2011-06-14

New​

  • Added configuration option [SkipScripts]

  • Now the client reports the date it was installed to Client.InstallDate

  • Added the file system type VMHGFS to the list of file systems to exclude by default

Corrections​

  • Validation of time stamps break when preparing for communication with an IDR server

1.4.02​

Release date: 2011-05-27

New​

  • Much improved internal logging system. The client now writes a status log of its active modules if the client would crash or receive an ABRT signal

Corrections​

  • Client tries to scan the RPM database even if DisableRpmScan=yes was set

  • RPM database reader makes the client crash

1.4.01​

Release date: 2011-04-19

New​

  • Added configuration option [SkipFileSystemType]

  • Added configuration option [AddLatency]

  • ”Scanning complete” is now logged even if debug logging is disabled

1.4.00​

Release date: 2010-12-16

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