Commands used by the agent

Snow Inventory Agent for Unix must have access to the following commands, depending on the platform:

All platforms	AIX	HP-UX	Solaris
awk* cut* domainname echo* env file** grep* hostname mount sort* sudo tail* tr* uname wc*	lparstat lsattr lsdev lslpp lswpar** prtconf** svmon	adb cstm getconf ioscan lsof machinfo model pfiles ps setbot sh swlist	df hostid kstat ls** pkg pkginfo pkgchk prtconf prtdiag ps psrinfo smbios swap vmstat zonename

Commands marked with "*" are used for parsing.

Commands marked with "**" require root privileges. The following data will be lost when not run as sudo or root:

Command	Platform	Data lost when not run as sudo or root
file	All	Installed software detection
lswpar	AIX	Workload partition detection
prtconf	AIX	System model, firmware version, machine serial number, processor (number of CPUs and clock speed), hostname, and memory (total physical and virtual) detection.
ls	Solaris	Running processes detection

See Run the agent according to the principle of least privileges for instructions on how to enable the Unix agent to run a complete scan without being run as a super-user.