Microsoft Windows Apple Mac OS X

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Products Snow License Manager Snow Inventory

 Server, IDP, IDR

 Client for Windows

 Client for OSX

 Client for Linux

 Client for Unix

 Oracle Scanner

 External Data Provider Snow Distribution

Date 2014-02-12

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These recommendations span the minimum, midpoint and high-end scenarios for server installations of Snow License Manager.

Regardless of which inventory solution you use, you will have to install Snow Inventory Server as the inventory data source for Snow License Manager. All external inventory data sources need to report to Snow Inventory via the External Data Provider (EDP).

To fully utilize the features in Snow License Manager (such as Microsoft App-V support, Oracle support and Web application metering), Snow Inventory Data Receiver 2.0 (or later) and Snow Inventory Data Processor 4.4 is required.

For specific hardware requirements, review the installation profiles to determine which profile best fits the number of inventoried client computers in your environment. All profiles described in this document refer to resources dedicated to Snow Software environments without third party systems or software (other than OS and SQL Server) running on the same hardware.

Administration Tool requirements (Windows application only) Component Minimum requirements

Operating systems One of the following:

 Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8

 Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2

RAM 512 MB (1024 MB recommended)

Required software Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0

Web Client requirements

Component Minimum requirements Operating systems One of the following:

 Microsoft Windows

 Apple Mac OS X Internet browsers Internet Explorer 7.0 or later

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 or later Opera 10.0 or later Apple Safari 5.0 or later Google Chrome 8.0 or later Browser specific

requirements

JavaScript and cookies enabled

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This profile applies for:

 1-1000 inventoried client computers registered in the platform

Server software environment

Snow License Manager Snow Inventory SQL Server

Server 1 (physical or virtual) X X X

Server

Component Minimum requirements Database

requirements

Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 or 2012

 Express editions not supported

 Case sensitive collations not supported

Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2 Processors Single Xeon 2.4 GHz Quad Core or equivalent

Disk 20 GB free space minimum

For information on Raid storage configuration - Storage Top 10 Best Practice (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966534.aspx) For more information on SQL Configuration - SQL Server Best Practices Article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966412.aspx)

RAM 4 GB or greater

Network card 32-bit, 10/100/1000 MB Ethernet Full Duplex Required installed

software

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0

Internet Information Services 6.0 or later

Snow Inventory database (SNOWDB version 3.2 or later) needs to reside on the same SQL Server as the SnowLicenseManager database.

For complete support for all inventory features such as VMware vSphere and ESXi, Snow IDP must be used in conjunction with Snow Inventory Server.

Required server configuration

To enable Snow Update Service to download software updates, HTTP(S) bidirectional communication needs to be allowed on port 80 or 443.

Required database configuration

SQL Server authentication must be enabled.

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 1000-5000 inventoried client computers registered in the platform Server software environment

Snow License Manager Snow Inventory SQL Server

Server 1 (physical or virtual) X X

Server 2 (physical or virtual) X

Application Server

Component Minimum requirements

Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2 Processor Single Xeon 2.4 GHz Dual Core or equivalent

RAM 8 GB or greater

Network card 32-bit, 10/100/1000 MB Ethernet full duplex Required installed

software

Internet Information Services 6.0 or later Required server

configuration

Database Server

requirements

Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2 Processor Single Xeon 2.0 GHz Quad Core or equivalent

Disk configuration 50 GB free space minimum

For information on Raid storage configuration - Storage Top 10 Best Practice (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966534.aspx) For more information on SQL Configuration - SQL Server Best Practices Article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966412.aspx) Required installed

software

Snow Inventory database (SNOWDB version 3.2 or later) needs to reside on the same SQL server as the SnowLicenseManager database.

RAM 8 GB or greater

Network card 32-bit, 10/100/1000 MB Ethernet Full Duplex Required database

configuration

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 5000-30 000 inventoried client computers registered in the platform

 For 30 000 or more inventoried client computers – please consult Snow Software for best architecture and specifications.

Server software environment

Snow License Manager Snow Inventory SQL Server Server 1 (physical or virtual) X

Server 2 (physical or virtual) X

Server 3 (physical) X

Application Server (Snow License Manager) Component Minimum requirements

RAM 8 GB or greater

software

Internet Information Services 6.0 or later Required server

configuration

Inventory Server (Snow Inventory)

RAM 8 GB or greater

software

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.

Required server configuration

To enable Snow Inventory clients to communicate with the server you need to specify and open a port (any) to be used (default port TCP 19730).

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Database Server

requirements

Disk configuration 100 GB free space minimum

For information on Raid storage configuration - Storage Top 10 Best Practice (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966534.aspx) For more information on SQL Configuration - SQL Server Best Practices Article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966412.aspx) Required installed

software

Snow Inventory database (SNOWDB version 3.2 or later) needs to reside on the same SQL server as the SnowLicenseManager database.

RAM 24 GB or greater

Network card 32-bit, 10/100/1000 MB Ethernet Full Duplex Required database

configuration

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Inventory Server requirements

Component Requirements

Database Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 or 2012

Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2 * Administration console

operating system

One of the following:

 Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8

 Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 or 2012 Processor architecture Intel platform only x86 and x64, Itanium based systems are not

supported.

Server configuration Configurable (default ports used are 19730 and 19732) Required additional

software

Snow Inventory Data Receiver 2.1 and Snow Inventory Data Processor 4.4

IDR (Inventory Data Receiver) and IDP

(Inventory Data Processor)

Internet Information Services 6.0 or later (IDR only)

Required database configuration

* For server hardware requirements please follow server recommendations for Snow License Manager.

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Snow Inventory Client for Windows 3.6 Component Requirements Operating systems One of the following:

 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)

 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (x64)

 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)

 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (x86, x64)

 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86, x64)

 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (x86, x64)

 Microsoft Windows 8.1 (x86, x64) ***

 Microsoft Windows 8 (x86, x64) ***

 Microsoft Windows 7 (x86, x64)

 Microsoft Windows Vista (x86, x64)

 Microsoft Windows XP (x86, x64) *

 Microsoft Windows 2000 (x86) ****

Processor architecture Intel platform only x86 and x64, Itanium based systems are not supported.

Virtual application technologies **

 Microsoft App-V (version 4.6)

 Citrix XenApp

 VMware ThinApp Web application metering One of the following:

 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

 Microsoft Windows Server 2012

 Microsoft Windows 8.1 ***

 Microsoft Windows 8 ***

 Microsoft Windows 7

 Microsoft Windows Vista SP1

 Microsoft Windows XP SP3 PowerShell scripting

support

One of the following:

 Microsoft Windows 8.1***

 Microsoft Windows 8 ***

 Microsoft Windows Vista SP1

Ports Configurable (default ports used are 19730 and 19732)

Required configuration The Snow Inventory Client must be configured to send inventory data to the Snow Inventory Data Receiver.

* Embedded version not supported

** Scanning only. The Inventory client cannot be virtually installed

*** RT edition not supported

**** Requires Windows 2000 SP4 with Update Rollup 1 (KB891861)

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Snow Inventory Client for OS X 2.2

OS Version 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 Processor architecture Power PC (32 bit)

Intel x86 (32-bit)

Snow Inventory Client for Linux 1.6

Operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 Debian 5.0

Debian 6.0

Debian 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 Ubuntu/Kubuntu 10.x Ubuntu/Kubuntu 11.x Ubuntu/Kubuntu 12.x Ubuntu/Kubuntu 13.04, 13.10 Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.x Oracle Linux 5.x

Oracle Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 SUSE 10

SUSE 11

Required libraries GLIBC 2.3.4 (or compatible version) libgcc_s 3.4.6 (or compatible version) libdl

librt libm libpthread ld-linux

These libraries are installed by default in most Linux distributions.

But except for being installed, they also need to be available to the client. They always are if the system isn’t configured to hide specific libraries.

Processor architecture Intel platform only, x86 and x64. Itanium based systems are not supported.

Oracle Scanning To utilize the Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner to inventory Oracle database products, Java Runtime (JRE) version 1.6 or higher is required.

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Snow Inventory Client for Unix 1.0

Component Requirements Operating system IBM AIX 5.3, 5.4, 6, 7

Solaris 8, 9, 10, 11 HP-UX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31

Required software Java Runtime version 6 (1.6) or higher

Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner 2.0

Component Requirements Oracle DB version One of the following:

 8

 8i

 9i

 10g

 11g

 12c

And the in-between versions Oracle DB editions One of the following:

 Oracle Database Enterprise Edition

 Oracle Database Standard Edition

 Oracle Database Standard Edition One Required software Java Runtime version 6 (1.6) or higher Operating systems One of the following:

IBM AIX 5.3, 5.4, 6, 7 Solaris 8, 9, 10, 11 HP-UX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31

Oracle Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 11

Microsoft Windows (all versions/editions supported by Oracle)

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The first time the EDP is utilized, a large amount of data is transferred and this will lead to a high usage of CPU and memory. This will only occur the first time.

EDP Service requirements

Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2 Processor Single Xeon 2.4 gigahertz (GHz) or equivalent

RAM 4 GB or greater

Network card 32-bit, 10/100 MB Ethernet Full Duplex Required installed software Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0

Snow Inventory Data Processor 4.4 Snow License Manager 6.2.08

EDP Plug-in requirements

SMS/SCCM Plug-in Minimum requirements Supported versions Microsoft SMS 2003

Microsoft SCCM 2007 Microsoft SCCM 2007 R2 Microsoft SCCM 2012 Microsoft SCCM 2012 R2 Required configuration Hardware inventory

Software inventory (including file details) Asset intelligence

Software metering (optional)

Database requirements Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 or 2012

A database user account with read access to the plug-in database

FrontRange Discovery Plug-in

Minimum requirements

Supported versions Version 7.x, 8.x, 9.0

Altiris Plug-in Minimum requirements Supported versions Version 6.x, 7.x

A database user account with read access to the plug-in database LANDesk Plug-in Minimum requirements

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LANDesk Plug-in Minimum requirements

VMware Plug-in Minimum requirements Supported versions ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x

Required configuration VMware vSphere Web Services SDK must be installed and configured on the ESX-servers.

VMware tools needs to be installed on the guest machines in order for the scanner to discover guest machines and automatically identify host/guest relations.

Authentication A user account with access to the VMware vSphere Web Services SDK.

Additional information In order for the Snow License Manager automated datacenter generation to work, you need to provide your vSphere datacenters with unique names. Otherwise all ESX-servers will be attached to the default datacenter “ha-datacenter” regardless of their vSphere attachment.

Citrix XenServer Plug-in Minimum requirements Supported versions Version 4.x, 5.x, 6.x

Authentication A user account with access to the Citrix XenServer Management API.

Hyper-V/VMM Plug-in Minimum requirements

Supported versions Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager 2007, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012

Authentication A user account with administrative access on the target Hyper-V host or target Virtual Machine Manager server.

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These are the system requirements for Snow distribution. In order to enable the log functionality of Snow Distribution you will need to have Microsoft SQL server installed.

Snow Distribution supports software distribution and configuration for the following operating systems:

 Microsoft Windows NT

 Microsoft Windows XP

 Microsoft Windows Vista

Distribution Point (file server) requirements Component Requirements Operating systems One of the following:

Disk space 16 MB free, plus space to hold the distribution packages Core service

Component Requirements Operating systems One of the following:

 Microsoft Windows 2000 server or professional

 Microsoft XP Professional

 Microsoft Windows Vista

 Microsoft Windows 7 Distribution Manager

Operating systems Workstation with the same operating system version you wish to make distribution packages for

Disk space 25 MB free space

Database Server

Database Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Case sensitive collations not supported