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"Agentless" scan?
Looking at the SNOW document for Agentless scan and it states to install the Agent. Is this really considered an agentless scan?
For this process it appears I install the agent and setup a script to have those snowpack files sent to a local Server share, correct?
Anyone do this successfully?
We are looking to use this for M&A initial inventories.
Hi Mark,
The agent will not require to be installed on the machines. Instead the agent files will need to be made available with read & execute access for domain users on a network share.
To trigger this you'll need a remote script setup to target these machines. Another way is to use a logon script on the machines you want to scan.
psexec can be used to complete this task
http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx
if you look at the zero footprint agent technical documentation you can either copy the agent onto the device and use a remote script to run it, or put it on an accessible network share and use a remote script again. In the old windows agent documentation there was also a script to allow you to run a login script to run the agent which has worked for me in the past if you don't have the ability to psexec to all devices.
OK, makes sense. Lets say I want to have the agent installed on all these new computers, since we just bought the company and I want HW/SW inventory data. But they are not connected to our network yet and we don not currently have a SNOW Inventory Server outside the network.
How do I get all the snowpacks gathered up so I can drop them into the processing folder?
If you're planning to install the Snow agent on the machines. You could install a standalone service gateway on one of the machines within that network and have the snowpack files sent to it. You could then copy the files to a USB or send them via an FTP to get them onto the Snow Inventory Master Server.
But in this case I'd need to get an updated config file so the destination server is correct, right?
No other way to do an easy initial inventory when you buy a company?
We are talking about 38-40 Computers. Looking for the best quick solution.
The "most manual version" would be to hand them over a flashdrive, run the agent scan locally from there and the get back the flashdrive. You can do this on multiple computers, all the .snowpack files will be in the data folder.
So, basically, perform a normal offline scan. See chapter 4.2.2 in the Snow Inventory Agent userguide.
If you are able to install the agent on the machines, the .snowpack files will also stack in the data folder on each machine. You could create a little script to collect these files in a central location (e.g. as part of the login script).
It will be some manual tasks anyway 😉
Hello Mark,
we also had this request in our environment. There seems to be no official solution for this specific case rigth now.
I've "scripted" a planed task and an automation to provide the agent to the off-site devices. They're running the
zero-foot-print-scan and are sending the files to a ftp-server on the internet (also clean up old files).
Also a planned task (running on our environment) is pulling the packets to our snow-server.
It's an unlovely method, but works the most time. Just to mention it, every device in this task has to be connected to
the internet.
Kind regards
Simon