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Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner 8

Here you can find the release notes for Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner 8. You can find the old release notes on the Snow Globe.

8.5.1 latest​

Release date: 2024-11-06

Corrections​

  • The scanner will now properly close database ref cursors after they are fetched, which lowers the number of open database cursors needed for each individual scan. (04794902)

  • The scanner will now properly inventory Oracle Database options usage information on a physical standby database that is in “READ ONLY WITH APPLY“ mode. (04786469)

8.5.0​

Release date: 2024-08-21

Enhancements​

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner
No license need for Database Vault in case Privilege Analysis feature is used

  • Since the Privilege Analysis feature no longer requires the Oracle Database Vault option, using the Privilege Analysis feature no longer triggers the Oracle Database Vault usage.

Corrections​

  • The scanner can now use a temporary folder configured on a drive other than the system (C ) drive under Windows (04774965)

  • The jar file extraction functionality will now be doing case-insensitive validation during the jar resources extraction process. This will avoid “Invalid jar entry“ errors when there is a case difference between the defined temporary path location for the scanner and its actual canonical path, for example “C:\TEMP“ vs “C:\Temp“.

8.4.0​

Release date: 2024-05-08

New​

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner
Inventorying E-Business Suite related data based on the verification program by Oracle

  • Based on the prerequisites of the E-Business Suite verification program by Oracle, Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner now scans for E-Business Suite data in addition to Oracle Database related data. After being processed, the inventoried E-Business Suite data is made available in SAM Core on the Applications > Oracle > Oracle verified data tab.
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The E-Business Suite product category is excluded from the Oracle verified data tab by default. To enable a user to view and manage E-Business Suite data on Snow Atlas, please contact our support organization.

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The E-Business Suite functionality is available only on Snow Atlas. This functionality is not available on Snow License Manager.

8.3.0​

Release date: 2024-04-17

Enhancements​

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner
Default instance credentials on mixed (container and non-container) database environments

  • The default instance credentials defined in the Oracle section of the agent configuration file, snowagent.config, can now be used in mixed environments having container and non-container databases. This functionality can be enabled by using the “UseMixedCredentials” element in sios.config. Refer to the Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner user guide for more details.

8.2.3​

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.

Corrections​

  • The scanner will now properly handle multiple rows as part of the DBA_FEATURE_USAGE_STATISTICS table, when checking for Data Pump compression and encryption (04751379).

8.2.2​

Release date: 2023-11-22

Corrections​

  • The detection of running processes as part of the scanner has been split into two different commands due to the fact that the grep option was not supported on some Linux and Unix systems (04740718).

8.2.1​

Release date: 2023-10-11

Corrections​

When Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner is used on Windows environments using a dedicated database user for scanning, the operating system user executing the scanner will no longer be added to the ora_dba group for the duration of the scan. (04728586)

8.2.0​

Release date: 2023-08-30

Enhancements​

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanners
Additional log message when executed in DEBUG mode

  • When Snow Inventory Scanner is executed in DEBUG mode, an additional log message resulting from the output of the master PL/SQL script is added to the LOG.

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

  • Inventorying Oracle Databases 21c has been introduced based on the requirements for the re-verification program.

Corrections​

  • The Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner is able to inventory the Oracle Database Express Edition. The Oracle estate compliancy functionality has been corrected for the case when any Oracle Database Express Edition has been inventoried. Starting from this release, the license requirements will not be calculated for Oracle Express Edition (04608048).

  • The Oracle estate compliancy functionality has been corrected for the case when any Oracle Database Express Edition has been inventoried. Starting from this release, the license requirements will not be calculated for Oracle Express Edition (04608048).

8.1.0​

Release date: 2022-11-09

Complete release notes  is found here

New​

  • Scanner execution mode configuration: For cases where you have custom behavior that changes the current working directory to a different operating system user, a new file—sios.config—has been introduced for configuring the execution mode. The DEFAULT and CWD modes have been introduced:

Enhancements​

  • The possibility to configure the name of the dba group based on user needs has been added as part of the newly introduced sios.config file. Otherwise, the scanner will execute with “dba” as the standard name for this group. (IDEAS-I-2009)

Corrections​

  • Having more than one record in the V$LICENSE table will now be properly handled by the scanner. (04600222)

8.0.1​

Release date: 2022-08-17

Complete release notes  is found here

Corrections​

  • The partitioned tables owned by SYSMAN will no longer trigger Oracle’s Partitioning database option usage. (04567797)

8.0.0​

Release date: 2022-06-15

Complete release notes  is found here

Enhancements​

  • Additional Oracle Database information for generating predefined output is now produced from the scanner, including database options and management packs

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