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Snow Inventory Java Scanner 3

Here you can find the release notes for Snow Inventory Java Scanner 3.

3.3.2 latest​

Release date: 2024-12-18

Enhancements​

Snow Inventory Java Scanner

  • The scanner will now properly identify java installation information for Java 6 IcedTea builds. (04788168)

Corrections​

Oracle Scanners

  • The scanner now performs the file system search as expected when wildcards (i.e. {} ) are used to replace a folder in the include paths specified in the Software element of the agent configuration file, snowagent.config. Example: /folder-1//folder-2/*. (04786606)

Snow Inventory Java Scanner

  • The scanner will now accept “-v“ as option when executing it from the command line, which will enable verbose logging. Additionally, if an unsupported option is provided on the command line, a help message will be shown with all supported command line options. (04789805)

Other

  • When the scan is executed in a 32-bit context (by using 32-bit JRE) under 64-bit Windows environments, the scanner’s file search module will now properly resolve the ProgramFiles special folder to return the correct path, provided the include/exclude paths in the snowagent.config file are configured to use the %ProgramFiles% variable. (04799044)

3.3.1​

Release date: 2024-08-21

Corrections​

Snow Inventory Java Scanner

  • The scanner will now validate the Windows “runas“ command, to properly handle a “runas“ utility bug introduced by the 22H2 windows update. The workaround to this bug is to provide an additional “runas“ parameter, /machine:x86|amd64|arm|arm64, depending on the platform. The scanner will apply the additional parameter only on the environments that are affected (04782148).

3.3.0​

Release date: 2024-05-08

Enhancements​

Oracle scanners
All logical drives are included in the scan (Windows only)

  • When no paths are specified in the Software/Include element of the Agent configuration file, snowagent.config, all fixed logical drives will be used for scanning under Windows. (IDEAS-I-2370)

Corrections​

Snow Inventory Java Scanner

  • The Unix shell is now properly initialized when executing the command that detects autofs mount points as part of the /etc/mnttab file (04774573)

3.2.3​

Release date: 2024-03-27

Enhancements​

Security

  • This release includes security enhancements. To avoid a possible path traversal vulnerability, the jar file extraction functionality will now validate the corresponding jar file to prevent illegal entries in the jar resources.

3.2.2​

Release date: 2023-11-01

Corrections​

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanners

  • The file search functionality of the scanner will no longer follow symbolic and junction links under Windows and therefore the file search will now finish instead of getting stuck in a loop.

3.2.1​

Release date: 2023-08-30

Enhancements​

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanners
Additional log messages as part of the LOG

  • New log messages providing the following information have been introduced:
    • Version of the scanner.
    • User that executed the scanner.
    • Java version used for executing the scanner, and
    • Operating System.

3.2.0​

Release date: 2023-06-07

Enhancements​

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanners
Align the Oracle scanners' filesystem search module with the agents
The Oracle scanners (Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner - SIOMS, and Snow Inventory Java Scanner - SIJS) will ignore all mounted drives that have filesystem type different from the root (“/“) filesystem type, unless it is listed in the filesystem include criteria. For the Linux environments, there are fixed exclude paths added to align the file search behaviour with the Snow Inventory Agent for Linux.

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Under Linux:
Bind mounts scanning can be configured using software.scan.ignore_bind_mounts key as part of the snowagent.config file
Autofs mounts scanning can be configured using software.scan.ignore_autofs_mounts key as part of the snowagent.config file

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Under Unix:
Bind mounts scanning can be configured using software.scan.ignore_bind_mounts key as part of the snowagent.config file

Corrections​

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanners
Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner and Snow Inventory Java Scanner will ignore all mounted drives that have filesystem type different from the root (“/“) filesystem type, unless it is listed in the filesystem include criteria (04642669, 04628290).

3.1.0​

Release date: 2023-05-17

Enhancements​

Snow Inventory Java Scanner
Oracle Verified Solution for Java SE

  • As part of the Oracle verified solution for Java SE functionality, additional attributes regarding the Java installations are now being inventoried.
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For this additional inventoried data to be visible on the Oracle verified mode page, Snow License Manager version 9.29.0 or later is required.

3.0.0​

Release date: 2022-06-15

Distribution method: Snow Update Service

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Enhancements​

  • Support for long time support (LTS) versions of Java: Additional Oracle Database information for generating predefined output is now produced from the scanner, including database options and management packs

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