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Counting the Snow Inventory Agents
We have 1900 assets in our organization across 3 major operating systems and each one counts against the total 1900. How do I track each agent so it counts against the total and reflects correctly in our compliance reporting?
Hi Bill,
Assuming you mean track the compliance for the application "Snow Inventory Agent" in Snow, you could add a license to the Windows Version for 1,900 licenses and enable cross platform and cross edition rights.
This should then cover the Linux and MacOS versions in License Manager and correct the compliance for the SIA apps,
Thanks
Laim
Hi Liam,
Actually, I think the Snow Agent is not requiring a paid license by itself. You may have the agent on as many devices as you need, your Inventory server is the one limiting the number of devices in Snow.
I think in the past the license naming was a bit confusing, letting us think that the Agent was actually licensed.
The more recent naming is less confusing and indicate that only things like INV, SLM, VMO and SRS need a paid license, but not the Agent as far as I understand.
What we have done is that we have input in Snow the license for the Inventory Server with a note of how many seats we are licensed for. Then we have marked the Snow Agents as not requiring a license.
This simplifies the approach and management a lot!