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Configure agent-based browser extensions

Learn how to configure agent-based browser extensions for Snow SaaS Management on Snow Atlas.

This functionality requires locally installed Snow Inventory Agents and browser extensions to collect and process SaaS application usage data, and Snow Extenders to import the data into SaaS on Snow Atlas.

Prerequisites​

This configuration is applicable to new Flexera customers and existing Flexera customers who have upgraded to SAM Core on Snow Atlas.

If you have an on-premises Snow environment, but also Snow SaaS Management on Snow Atlas, you need to configure Snow Inventory Server too. For more information and configuration, see Configure agent-based browser extensions for on-premises plus SaaS.

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You may need help from Flexera to install and configure the required technologies.

Procedure​

  1. Install Snow Inventory Agents in your local environment, unless you already have them.

    You are recommended to have the latest version installed.

  2. Configure Snow Inventory Agents to install browser extensions in your local environment, unless you already have it configured. The browser extensions collect SaaS application usage.

    For more information and configuration, see Cloud application metering.

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    Collection of SaaS application usage requires that your organization's users work in one of the browsers where you have deployed a browser extension. For a list of browsers, see Browser extensions.

  3. Configure or update your Snow Extender to get the collected data into SaaS on Snow Atlas.

    1. Install, or update to, Snow Extenders version 2.0.8 or later.

      For more information, see Snow Extenders.

    2. Optional: Configure the AD Discovery in your extender, and select to inventory users.

      This configuration is recommended but not required. For more information and configuration, see Add Active Directory domains.

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      When AD discovery is configured, it ensures the exact mapping of your organization's users to the collected browser data. When it is not configured, the mapping is instead done between the display name of the users signed in on their machines and the user information received from other discovery sources in SaaS. Mapping based on display name may decrease the accuracy of the user mapping in the case when multiple users have the same display name in the system. For more information, see Data consolidation.