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Snow Inventory Agent for Windows 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 Windows 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

5.3.1 latest​

Release date: 2018-10-23

Corrections​

  • A newer version of the third-party CPUID module has been included, which has improved CPU detection for:
    • AMD desktop Raven Ridge APU (AM4)
    • Intel Coffee Lake processors and Z370 platform
    • Intel Skylake-X HCC processors
    • Intel Xeon Skylake-SP and Xeon/W Skylake processors
    • Intel Xeon Phi Knight Landing Intel 9th generation Core family (Coffee Lake 9900K, 9700K, 9600K, 9600, 9500 and 9400).
    • Intel Coffee Lake-U processors.
    • Intel Z390.
    • AMD ThreadRipper 2000.

5.3.0​

Release date: 2018-04-05

New​

  • Cloud application metering and discovery for internet explorer 11

  • Cloud application metering and discovery for mozilla firefox

  • Changes have been made to the chrome extension to ensure consistent behavior with other supported Snow browser extensions.

  • All extensions (Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, and Firefox) can now be separately enabled/disabled by using the respective settings saas.chrome.enabled, saas.ie11.enabled and saas.firefox.enabled in the Agent configuration.

Corrections​

  • The Inventory Agent service no longer hangs when starting the agent service on a Citrix Server.

5.2.4​

Release date: 2018-03-21

Corrections​

  • Command-line update for uninstall of Inventory agents.

5.2.3​

Release date: 2017-12-11

New​

  • Support for new format of cloud-metering rules.

5.2.2​

Release date: 2017-10-16

New​

  • The field IsVirtual has been added to the client tag in the inventory scan result. This field will be set to true if a hypervisor is detected on the scanned machine, and false otherwise.

  • The field UTC-offset has also been added. It stores the time zone of the local computer enabling dates and times to be presented in any format.

  • A newer version of the third-party CPUID component is included in the agent. This version has improved CPU detection for: o Intel Kaby Lake processors o AMD Embedded G and R-series processors o AMD Bristol Ridge processors o AMD Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 support o DMP Vortex86 DX3 o AMD Threadripper o Intel SKL-X.

  • The setting hardware.scan.enable_cpuid has been added to disable use of the third-party component CPUID.

  • For privacy reasons, the software metering data (temporarily stored by the agent) is now obfuscated.

  • Drop location endpoints can now be configured without specifying the full URL. If it is missing, the suffix api/receiver/receive will be automatically appended to the URL of a drop location endpoint.

Corrections​

  • Command prompt windows popping up during login no longer occurs.

5.2.1​

Release date: 2017-09-05

Corrections​

  • The run counter is now reported correctly for software usage metering. Previously, a bug introduced in version 5.1.0 and included also in versions 5.1.1 and 5.2.0 have caused both fields “Run” and “Per run” to show up incorrectly in Snow License Manager.

  • An issue with parsing of the web application patterns file has been resolved.

  • A potential risk with a non-threadsafe pointer in web application metering has been mitigated

5.2.0​

Release date: 2017-07-19

New​

  • HYPERVISOR DETECTION FOR MICROSOFT AZURE AND AMAZON EC2: This version of the Snow Inventory agent for Windows provides additional hypervisor detection for Azure and Amazon EC2 environments. Specifically, the Manufacturer/Model fields will be set to Microsoft/Azure or Amazon.com, Inc./Elastic Cloud 2.

Corrections​

  • If the time setting for inventory scheduling in the configuration file is invalid, the agent defaults scheduling to 09:00.

  • The error-handling mechanism for loss of network connectivity during data transmission has been improved to ensure that the agent service continues to run.

  • Compatibility issues with older versions of Windows such as Windows 2003 and XP have been corrected.

  • A problem with impersonation no longer causes the agent to stop scanning.

5.1.1​

Release date: 2017-06-19

New​

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

  • All memory allocations based on external inputs are now validated.

Corrections​

  • Randomization parameters included in the scheduled inventorying of machines are now working properly.

  • MachineSID is now being picked up correctly. Previously, an incorrect value could cause unique machines to be merged.

5.1.0​

Release date: 2017-05-10

New​

  • WEB-APPLICATION METERING WITH CHROME

  • Details of SSD-disks are now included in the scan result

  • Version information for Windows 10 now contains the full OS version number (previously only the major and minor release numbers were provided, such as 10.0)

  • Inventory Agents deployed from the Snow Inventory Admin Console can now be uninstalled locally from the local Windows control panel.

Corrections​

  • System setting names that are misspelled when manually editing the snowagent.config no longer causes the values of the first system setting in the configuration file to be overridden

  • Details for “SQL server 2012 Windows internal database” missing, no longer creates a false positive hit for a SQL server in Snow License Manager

  • All App-V applications are now included in the scan result

5.0.2​

Release date: 2016-12-14

New​

  • Added reporting of memory module information

  • Added Snow agent as a software row in the scan result

  • Normalized version reporting from the agent

  • Improved command line option help text for -package argument

Corrections​

  • Improved stability while doing software scanning, related to an issue reported when performing a scan on Citrix servers

5.0.1​

Release date: 2016-10-10

Corrections​

  • Fixed an issue where custom registry keys were not included in the scan result

5.0​

Release date: 2016-09-27

  • Please read release notes for Inventory 5 for further details

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