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Snow Inventory Agent for Linux 5

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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 5. 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.

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Be aware of the following identified vulnerabilities:

5.2.0 latest​

Release date: 2018-01-18

New​

  • Detection of running processes

  • To fulfil the requirements for Principle of least Privileges, the inventory agent no longer needs to run as superuser. Instead, the user account running the agent needs sudo access to the specific commands mentioned in the Linux agent user guide.

  • For performance and stability reasons, the agent now gathers hardware details using dmidecode.

  • To improve the user experience, detection of Amazon EC2 hypervisor no longer outputs to the terminal window.

Corrections​

  • Special characters in the InstallDate-column have been corrected to a valid date format.

5.1​

Release date: 2017-09-20

New​

  • In a Citrix XenServer environment, the agent now detects Hypervisor details, such as Hypervisor name, Manufacturer, and Model

  • A new setting “ignore_bind_mounts” has been added. When enabled, the agent will not scan bind mounts, under specific conditions

  • The request header sent to the server now includes site name. In the future, this data will enable the Inventory Server to block unwanted agents from sending files

  • A new configuration setting <Environment><Ignore> can be used to exclude specified environment variables from the scan result

Corrections​

  • The setting “http.ssl_verify” now defaults to true, as stated in the user guide

  • Spelling errors in system setting names made through manual editing of the snowagent.config file no longer cause the first system setting value to be overridden

  • Inventory details for network adapters are now gathered for Debian 3.2.63-2

5.0.1​

Release date: 2016-11-30

New​

  • Normalized version reporting from the agent

  • Format of Client Version attribute is now correct in scan result

Corrections​

  • Open files not scanned. This issue was solved by opening files in read-only mode

5.0​

Release date: 2016-09-27

  • Please read release notes for Inventory 5 for further details

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