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Snow Inventory Agent for Unix 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 Unix 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.

5.0.4 latest​

Release date: 2017-10-11

New​

  • The performance of the software scanner has been improved to lower the time needed by the agent.

  • The request header sent to the server now includes the site name. This can in the future help the Inventory Server to block unwanted agents to send files.

  • A new configuration setting can be used to exclude specified environment variables from the scan result.

  • Additional logging on file system information during software scanning has been added.

  • The Configname-attribute is now included in the Client-tag of the inventory file.

Corrections​

  • The agent can now connect correctly to Oracle 9i databases.

  • The correct exit code is now returned.

5.0.3​

Release date: 2017-01-26

New​

  • Help text is now available through the command line argument ‘-h’ aligning with agents for other platforms (MacOS, Linux, and Windows)

  • Running the Unix agent without command line arguments performs a scan, even if connection is not available to Inventory Server. The scan now runs as soon as the connection becomes available.

5.0.2​

Release date: 2016-11-30

New​

  • Mount points that cannot be read during disk scanning are ignored

  • Normalized version reporting from the agent

Corrections​

  • Capability to detect type of sun4v processor is now included in scan

5.0.1​

Release date: 2016-10-19

New​

  • Less memory usage during file scanning

Corrections​

  • Fixed an issue where file scanning was not working properly

  • Fixed an issue where ClientVersion attribute was not included in scan result

5.0​

Release date: 2016-09-27

  • Please read release notes for Inventory 5 for further details

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