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Snow Inventory Agent for Unix 6

Here you can find the release notes for Snow Inventory Agent for Unix 6. 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:

6.2.3 latest​

Release date: 2020-04-01

Complete release notes  is found here

Corrections​

  • A further improvement in restricting write permissions on the Snow Inventory Agent for Unix temporary folder has been implemented after the implementation in release 6.2.1 (PRB0042991).

  • The processor model SPARC T5-4 is now inventoried correctly (PRB0043121).

6.2.1​

Release date: 2020-02-12

Complete release notes  is found here

Corrections​

  • Permissions on the Snow Inventory Agent for Unix temporary folder are set to restrict writing (PRB0042991).

6.2.0​

Release date: 2019-09-25

Complete release notes  is found here

New​

  • It is now possible to configure the Agent to never retrieve updates from its configured endpoint(s).

6.1.0​

Release date: 2019-05-16

Complete release notes  is found here

New​

  • Exclude autofs mount points from the file scan.

Enhancements​

  • Operating-system name in the manifest.

6.0.2​

Release date: 2018-12-12

Corrections​

  • Solaris 11 uses two commands to retrieve information about software installed on a machine, one of which gathers data about legacy packages. The Unix Agent has been updated to mimic the operating system behavior, and now runs the legacy command in addition to the standard pkg info command, and collates the result to provide a more comprehensive inventory.

  • The agent now includes additional error-handling to process filenames retrieved by the Solaris package manager. When the agent encounters filenames that include characters outside of the POSIX standard, it now completes processing and creates a valid snowpack file containing inventory data.

  • SPARC64 processors are now being recognized correctly by the agent.

  • Unix file commands executed by the agent that return more data than standard error is set to manage previously caused the agent to wait indefinitely. Additional error-handling has been added to the agent to prevent it from waiting in such scenarios.

  • The version number for the Solaris 10 operating system is now inventoried correctly.

6.0.0​

Release date: 2018-09-19

Inventory Server 6.0.0 has been prepared to support the extraction of additional types of inventory data to be included in a scan. In this release, support has been added for Snow Oracle Middleware Scanner – a component that will be released later this year. Details of the data extracted will be shared in the release notes for Snow Oracle Middleware Scanner.

New​

  • Support for additional types of inventory information

Enhancements​

  • To ease troubleshooting, the agent now logs the full pathnames of the locations it scans.

Corrections​

  • Logging of syslog can now be enabled and disabled using the Syslog setting in the logging section of the agent configuration file.

  • Support for Isof command has been added to resolve paths on PA RISC /HP UX machines when the pfiles are missing from their expected location.

  • When a connection to the Inventory Server fails, the agent now logs an error instead of a warning in the log file.

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