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Snow Inventory Agent for MacOS 2

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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 MacOS 2. 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.

2.3.03 latest​

Release date: 2016-05-26

New​

  • Fixes an issue where the xClient created invalid metering data when the executable were running past midnight (D2031)

2.3.02​

Release date: 2015-11-04

New​

  • Support for Mac OS X, version 10.11 (El Capitan)

Corrections​

  • An issue fixed where usage data was not picked up for some applications (D4997)

2.3.01​

Release date: 2015-06-24

New​

  • Support for Mac OS X, version 10.10 (Yosemite)

Corrections​

  • Fix for exception message “Failed Assertion” (D3654)

  • Leaving out the trailing slash ( / ) in the SkipFolder parameter in the configuration file will not create a new folder (D3781)

  • Correct collection of model information, BIOS serial number, BIOS date and BIOS version (D3404)

2.3.00​

Release date: 2014-03-07

New​

  • Scan SWID tags

  • Optimized JAR scanner

  • Support for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

Corrections​

  • OS X Client full username not logged by client (D1197)

  • Domain users presented as local users and local admins (D1354)

2.2.00​

Release date: 2013-02-06

New​

  • Support for communication with the Inventory Data Receiver (IDR) over HTTPS (F322)

  • Support for presenting hardware details of SAS harddrives (D943)

  • Support for scanning FileVault encrypted partitions (F1889)

  • Support for reporting the VolumeSerialNumber of logical disks (F1827)

  • New setting – Configurable hardware inventory (F1392)

  • configuration options added to specify which hardware to inventory

  • New setting – Hide specific users (F1441)

  • configuration option added to skip generic/system users such as root, _securityagent, and admin within the inventory result

  • New setting – Skip computer hostname in usernames (F1560)

  • configuration option to exclude the computer hostname in the username for all local user accounts. This applies to both software metering and login history.

  • The client will by default exclude scanning of MTMFS and DEVFS file systems.

  • The client will by default exclude scanning of these paths: /sys /dev /tmp /boot /usr/include /usr/share /usr/src /var /.MobileBackups /.Spotlight-V100 /.Trashes

Corrections​

  • Microsoft Office 2004 is not found during the software inventory (D876)

  • The wrong attributes could be set on the directory “/usr/local/bin” after installation if the folder did not exist prior to installation (D944)

  • Drives could be skipped when using multiple physical drives in combination with anonymous partitions.

  • xMetering crashes on startup (D929)

  • xMetering logged unnecessary problems with the configuration file. Rows containing only whitespaces and even [ini segments] was logged as potential problems (D1064)

2.1.05​

Release date: 2012-07-06

Corrections​

  • Setup package fix

2.1.04​

Release date: 2012-06-26

Corrections​

  • Setup package for multi OS (different metering feature versions)

2.1.03​

Release date: 2012-05-30

New​

  • Added more scanned metadata to Snow applications.

Corrections​

  • Preventing a few error messages from being reported as input devices

  • Changes regarding metering meta data structure

2.1.02​

Release date: 2012-05-15

Corrections​

  • Change in the error logging after failed communications with the IDR. One ”text bug” fixed and we can now get a little bit more data for tracing communication problems

2.1.01​

Release date: 2012-05-10

New​

  • Removal of old .plist files before updating the client.

  • Improved handling of metering data.

2.1.00​

Release date: 2012-04-10

New​

  • Added configuration options [AnonymousIP] and [SkipScripts]

  • Removed configuration options [SendToWebService], [SendToFile] and [SendToFolder]

  • Added program arguments [-delay], [-findconfiguration] and [-findstorage]

  • Improved behavior of configuration option [DestinationFile]

  • The program argument [-test] is now more verbose

  • By default exclude scanning of VMHGFS and PANFS file systems

  • By default exclude scanning of the paths ’/net’ and ’/panfs’

  • Optimized scanning of software meta data

  • Improved logic for handling problems with server communication

  • Improved internal logging system and logging messages

  • The client reports install date to Client.InstallDate

  • Dropped support for Snow Inventory 2.x servers

  • Metering agent rebuilt from scratch to work better with newer versions of OS X

  • Support for OS X Lion

Corrections​

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

  • Potential crash bug in the application metadata reader

2.0.01​

Release date: 2011-02-01

New​

  • Added configuration option [SkipFileSystemType]

Corrections​

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

  • Potential crash bug in the application metadata reader

2.0.00​

Release date: 2010-12-16

  • ORIGINAL VERSION

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