Snow Inventory Agent on Solaris

Portal User asked a question.

Hi all,

do you know if Java is needed to run the Snow Inventory Agent on Solaris?

This would result in having to license Oracle Java for my Solaris environment to be able to inventory the infrastructure. That would be a pity.

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Cheers, Rainer

Community Manager (Flexera Software)
7 years ago
Hi Rainer, the User Guide to the Snow Inventory Agent for Unix states that yes, you need a Java Runtime. 1.1.3 JAVA RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT To run the Snow Inventory Agent for Unix, the target computer is required to have Java Runtime Environment 6 (1.6), 7 or 8 installed. For enhanced scan performance, the recommendation is to use Java Runtime Environment 8.0. NOTE Due to an internal defect in Java, Java Runtime Environment 1.7.0_7 must not be used. See Known issues for more information. Also, as stated in this thread, you can you OpenJDK.
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Detlev Eufinger (Flexera Software)
7 years ago
Hi Rainer, yes you need java for running our agent on Unix systems! To run the Snow Inventory Agent for Unix, the target computer is required to have Java Runtime Environment 6 (1.6), 7 or 8 installed. For enhanced scan performance, the recommendation is to use Java Runtime Environment 8.0. We support JRE 8 based on OpenJDK. It is free! Please read also our Snow System Requirements on page 36 you can find the information!
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Portal User
7 years ago
Hi ‌ and ‌, thanks for your quick response! Hope both of you are doing fine. :-) I already feared that this will be the answer. OpenJDK is not an option in our environment as this would need to be build, tested and supported by the colleagues responsible for the infrastructure for which they simply have no time for. But anyway, thanks for your answers. Cheers, Rainer
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Snow Inventory Agent on Solaris