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Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner 3

Here you can find the release notes for Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner 3. You can find the old release notes on the Snow Globe.

3.3.2 latest​

Release date: 2024-12-18

Enhancements​

Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner
Security

  • The Apache Commons Compress library that is used as part of the Oracle Verified Solution functionality has been updated to version 1.27.1

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)

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 Oracle Middleware Scanner

  • The scanner will no longer log a warning message when a certain process is not detected during the process search under Linux/Unix (04761611)

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)

3.2.2​

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.

3.2.1​

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.

3.2.0​

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.

Oracle re-verification program for Database and Fusion Middleware

  • Changes in collecting files and running processes have been introduced based on the requirements for the re-verification program.

3.1.0​

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).

3.0.0​

Release date: 2023-02-01

Compatibility
The SUS upgrade to SLM 9.25.0 can be done from SLM 9.24.0. The following versions are compatible with this version of Snow License Manager:

Inventory ServerSnow Integration Manager
6.5 or later5.18 or later

New​

Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner
Oracle Fusion Middleware verified solution and visibility on additional five Middleware products

  • As part of the Oracle Verified Solution for Fusion Middleware, the Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner is able to inventory the raw data that later on will be processed to Snow License Manager and shown as part of the Enterprise: Oracle > Oracle Verified Data page. The data will at the end be made available for download based on user needs.
    • To give the users additional flexibility to define which data will be anonymized before it is shared with relevant stakeholders, a new configuration file, sioms.config, has been introduced. The sioms.config file is optional and the default values, defined in the default sioms.config file, that will be anonymized by design are described in the user guide.
  • The Snow Inventory Oracle Middleware Scanner is inventorying data for the following five additional Oracle Fusion Middleware products that will be part of Snow License Manager, on the Enterprise: Oracle > Products page:
    • Oracle Business Intelligence
    • Oracle Forms And Reports
    • Oracle SOA Suite
    • Oracle Tuxedo
    • Oracle WebCenter
note

These features require Snow License Manager (SLM) 9.26.0 released on February 1st, 2023.

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