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Snow Inventory Agent for MacOS 2

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Here you can find the release notes for Snow Inventory Agent for MacOS 2. You can find the old release notes on the Snow Globe.

2.3.03 latest​

Release date: 2016-05-26

New​

(CPV-4663)

  • Fixes an issue where the xClient created invalid metering data when the executable were running past midnight (D2031)

2.3.02​

Release date: 2015-11-04

New​

(CPV-4666)

  • Support for Mac OS X, version 10.11 (El Capitan)

Corrections​

(CPV-4667)

  • An issue fixed where usage data was not picked up for some applications (D4997)

2.3.01​

Release date: 2015-06-24

New​

(CPV-4670)

  • Support for Mac OS X, version 10.10 (Yosemite)

Corrections​

(CPV-4671)

  • Fix for exception message “Failed Assertion” (D3654)

(CPV-4672)

  • Leaving out the trailing slash ( / ) in the SkipFolder parameter in the configuration file will not create a new folder (D3781)

(CPV-4673)

  • Correct collection of model information, BIOS serial number, BIOS date and BIOS version (D3404)

2.3.00​

Release date: 2014-03-07

New​

(CPV-4676)

  • Scan SWID tags

(CPV-4677)

  • Optimized JAR scanner

(CPV-4678)

  • Support for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

Corrections​

(CPV-4679)

  • OS X Client full username not logged by client (D1197)

(CPV-4680)

  • Domain users presented as local users and local admins (D1354)

2.2.00​

Release date: 2013-02-06

New​

(CPV-4683)

  • Support for communication with the Inventory Data Receiver (IDR) over HTTPS (F322)

(CPV-4684)

  • Support for presenting hardware details of SAS harddrives (D943)

(CPV-4685)

  • Support for scanning FileVault encrypted partitions (F1889)

(CPV-4686)

  • Support for reporting the VolumeSerialNumber of logical disks (F1827)

(CPV-4687)

  • New setting – Configurable hardware inventory (F1392)

(CPV-4688)

  • configuration options added to specify which hardware to inventory

(CPV-4689)

  • New setting – Hide specific users (F1441)

(CPV-4690)

  • configuration option added to skip generic/system users such as root, _securityagent, and admin within the inventory result

(CPV-4691)

  • New setting – Skip computer hostname in usernames (F1560)

(CPV-4692)

  • configuration option to exclude the computer hostname in the username for all local user accounts. This applies to both software metering and login history.

(CPV-4693)

  • The client will by default exclude scanning of MTMFS and DEVFS file systems.

(CPV-4694)

  • The client will by default exclude scanning of these paths: /sys /dev /tmp /boot /usr/include /usr/share /usr/src /var /.MobileBackups /.Spotlight-V100 /.Trashes

Corrections​

(CPV-4695)

  • Microsoft Office 2004 is not found during the software inventory (D876)

(CPV-4696)

  • The wrong attributes could be set on the directory “/usr/local/bin” after installation if the folder did not exist prior to installation (D944)

(CPV-4697)

  • Drives could be skipped when using multiple physical drives in combination with anonymous partitions.

(CPV-4698)

  • xMetering crashes on startup (D929)

(CPV-4699)

  • xMetering logged unnecessary problems with the configuration file. Rows containing only whitespaces and even [ini segments] was logged as potential problems (D1064)

2.1.05​

Release date: 2012-07-06

Corrections​

(CPV-4702)

  • Setup package fix

2.1.04​

Release date: 2012-06-26

Corrections​

(CPV-4705)

  • Setup package for multi OS (different metering feature versions)

2.1.03​

Release date: 2012-05-30

New​

(CPV-4708)

  • Added more scanned metadata to Snow applications.

Corrections​

(CPV-4709)

  • Preventing a few error messages from being reported as input devices

(CPV-4710)

  • Changes regarding metering meta data structure

2.1.02​

Release date: 2012-05-15

Corrections​

(CPV-4713)

  • Change in the error logging after failed communications with the IDR. One ”text bug” fixed and we can now get a little bit more data for tracing communication problems

2.1.01​

Release date: 2012-05-10

New​

(CPV-4716)

  • Removal of old .plist files before updating the client.

(CPV-4717)

  • Improved handling of metering data.

2.1.00​

Release date: 2012-04-10

New​

(CPV-4720)

  • Added configuration options [AnonymousIP] and [SkipScripts]

(CPV-4721)

  • Removed configuration options [SendToWebService], [SendToFile] and [SendToFolder]

(CPV-4722)

  • Added program arguments [-delay], [-findconfiguration] and [-findstorage]

(CPV-4723)

  • Improved behavior of configuration option [DestinationFile]

(CPV-4724)

  • The program argument [-test] is now more verbose

(CPV-4725)

  • By default exclude scanning of VMHGFS and PANFS file systems

(CPV-4726)

  • By default exclude scanning of the paths ’/net’ and ’/panfs’

(CPV-4727)

  • Optimized scanning of software meta data

(CPV-4728)

  • Improved logic for handling problems with server communication

(CPV-4729)

  • Improved internal logging system and logging messages

(CPV-4730)

  • The client reports install date to Client.InstallDate

(CPV-4731)

  • Dropped support for Snow Inventory 2.x servers

(CPV-4732)

  • Metering agent rebuilt from scratch to work better with newer versions of OS X

(CPV-4733)

  • Support for OS X Lion

Corrections​

(CPV-4734)

  • ”Scanning complete” is now logged even if debug logging is disabled

(CPV-4735)

  • Potential crash bug in the application metadata reader

2.0.01​

Release date: 2011-02-01

New​

(CPV-4738)

  • Added configuration option [SkipFileSystemType]

Corrections​

(CPV-4739)

  • ”Scanning complete” is now logged even if debug logging is disabled

(CPV-4740)

  • Potential crash bug in the application metadata reader

2.0.00​

Release date: 2010-12-16

(CPV-4743)

  • ORIGINAL VERSION

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