Hi everyone,
I am fairly new to SNOW and was wondering if there is a way to do an on-demand scan of a single PC/workstation. Currently, our system wide scan is scheduled daily, but we have technicians who would like to know if they could force a scan on a single machine and see the results (fairly quickly).
Thanks!
In addition to the article David is linking to, you can also use power shell to trigger the snow agent to scan. (Might come in handy if you do not have physical access to the computer or the SC command is blocked or doesn't work.)
This power shell command will trigger the scan on the remote computer, and the second will send the result to the inventory server.
The credential part of the string needs to be a local administrator of the target computer in order for this to work.
Run this power shell command to trigger the scan ( will create a *.snowpack file in the local data folder)
Invoke-Command -ComputerName TARGETCOMPNAME -ScriptBlock { & 'c:\program files\snow software\inventory\agent\snowagent.exe' scan} -credential DOMAIN\useraccount
Run this power shell command to send the *.snowpack result to the inventory server
Invoke-Command -ComputerName TARGETCOMPNAME -ScriptBlock { & 'c:\program files\snow software\inventory\agent\snowagent.exe' send} -credential DOMAIN\useraccount
Hi Charles,
Welcome! This is probably what you're looking for: How To Perform A Manual Scan
I hope that helps.
Regards, David