Snow for Cloud appears limited?

THowland asked a question.

April 26, 2018 at 7:00 AM

*Apologies in advance if this comes across negative - not intended!* I have read through the User Guides for AWS and Azure Connectors and I am a little puzzled at the information retrieved by the connector... - Name - SiteName - DNSHostName - MACaddress - IPAddress There is nothing related to the software in use - seems a little counterintuitive from a Software Asset Management perspective. Can someone clarify and possible shed light to the value of the connectors because this is information that can be retrieved from AD. Thanks.

Community Manager (Flexera Software)
8 years ago
Hello Tyrone, the wording is the key: discovery. Which means for Snow to only find/see the computers that are out there. The next step, to inventory these, is up to the customer and the software distribution method of choice. If all of your cloud computers are also in your AD, then this information could be duplicated. For customers who however do not have them in their AD, this would be a way to discover not yet inventoried computers. Greetings, Roland
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- THowland
  8 years ago
  Hi Roland, Thank you for the feedback, it has made things clearer. Might I recommend that this is referenced and clarified in the wider Snow for Cloud communications, because it might come across in a misleading way if it remains vague whether or not we can gain more from the cloud connectors over the traditional Snow agents. Thanks - Tyrone.
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