Products Snow License Manager Server, IDR, IDP … Snow License Manager Snow Inventory Server ... server and Web server are required. The web role service ... to be allowed on port

Products Snow License Manager

Snow Inventory

Server, IDR, IDP

Client for Windows

Client for Linux

Client for Unix

Client for OS X

Oracle Scanner

External Data Provider

Snow Distribution

Date 2014-09-09

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These recommendations span minimum, midpoint and high-end scenarios for server

installations of Snow License Manager.

Regardless of the used inventory solution, Snow Inventory Server needs to be installed 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 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

support, Oracle support, and Web application metering), Snow Inventory Data Receiver 2.1 (or

later) and Snow Inventory Data Processor 4.5 or later is required.

For specific hardware requirements, review the installation profiles to determine which profile

best fits the number of inventoried client computers in the 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 Vista, 7, 8 or 8.1

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2

RAM 4 GB or greater

Required software Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

Web Client requirements



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

* License Manager Snowboard is not compatible with Internet Explorer 7. When running Internet Explorer, version 9

or later is required.

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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


Database requirements Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2 or 2012

Express editions not supported

Case sensitive collations not supported

Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64, 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and 2008 R2 require hotfix KB980368

(KB980368 is included in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1).

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 100/1000 MB Ethernet

Required installed

software



The two roles Application server and Web server are required.

The web role service Application Development is required, including

ASP.NET functionality.

The web role service Security is required, including Basic Authentication

and Windows Authentication.

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.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966534.aspx





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1000-5000 inventoried client computers registered in the platform



Server 1 (physical or virtual) X X

Server 2 (physical or virtual) X

Application Server





Processor Single Xeon 2.4 GHz Dual Core or equivalent


RAM 8 GB or greater


Required installed

software








Required server

configuration



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Database Server





Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64, 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2

Processor Single Xeon 2.0 GHz Quad Core or equivalent

Disk configuration 50 GB free space minimum





Required installed

software


the same SQL server as the SnowLicenseManager database.



RAM 8 GB or greater


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 3 (physical) X

Application Server (Snow License Manager)







RAM 8 GB or greater


Required installed

software








Required server

configuration



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Inventory Server (Snow Inventory)





RAM 8 GB or greater


Required installed

software









Required server

configuration

To enable Snow Inventory clients to communicate with the server, a port

(any) needs to be opened and specified (port 443 is default).

Database Server





Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64, 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2


Disk configuration 100 GB free space minimum





Required installed

software


the same SQL server as the SnowLicenseManager database.

RAM 24 GB or greater


Required database

configuration







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Inventory Server requirements

Component Requirements

Database Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2 or 2012



Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64, 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 (port 443 is default)

Required additional software Snow Inventory Data Receiver 2.1 and Snow Inventory Data Processor

4.5

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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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 Desktop

Infrastructure

Supported technologies (protocols):

Citrix XenDesktop (RDP)

Citrix VDI-in-a-Box (RDP)

Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (RDP)

VMware Horizon View (RDP, PCoIP)

Virtual application

technologies **

Supported technologies:

Citrix XenApp

Microsoft App-V (version 4.6)

VMware ThinApp

Web application

metering*****


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






Microsoft Windows 8.1***

Microsoft Windows 8 ***

Microsoft Windows 7

Microsoft Windows Vista SP1

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Ports Configurable

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)

***** In order to fully utilize the metering capability of cloud based applications when using proxy servers, these websites

need to be configured to be bypassed from the proxy. Proxies encrypt/scramble the website address and any

connectivity going through the proxy will not be metered.


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

Ubuntu/Kubuntu 14.04

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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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


OS Version 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9

(10.4,10.5 supported using version 2.2)

Processor architecture Intel x86 (32-bit)

Intel x64 (64-bit)


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


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



Processor Single Xeon 2.4 gigahertz (GHz) or equivalent

RAM 4 GB or greater


Required installed software Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

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



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LANDesk Plug-in Minimum requirements

Supported versions Version 9.0, 9.5



VMware Plug-in Minimum requirements

Supported versions vSphere 4.x, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5

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, the vSphere datacenters must be provided 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. To enable the log functionality of Snow

Distribution, Microsoft SQL server needs to be installed. Snow Distribution supports software

distribution and configuration for the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows 95


Microsoft Windows NT


Microsoft Windows XP

Microsoft Windows Vista

Microsoft Windows 7

Distribution Point (file server) requirements






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

Core service





Microsoft Windows 2000 server or professional

Microsoft XP Professional

Microsoft Windows Vista

Microsoft Windows 7

Distribution Manager


Operating systems Workstation with the same version of operating system that distribution

packages will be made for

Disk space 25 MB free space

Database Server


Database Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Microsoft SQL Server 2008


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