topic Remote Linux Monitoring - User rights in Extensions

Remote Linux Monitoring - User rights

Theodore_x86 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:10:46 GMT

Hello. For the below extension:

https://www.dynatrace.com/hub/detail/remote-linux-monitoring/

is it somewhere stated what specific rights are needed for the Linux monitoring user? I guess that we need execute or read rights but for which commands?

Thanks.

Re: Remote Linux Monitoring - User rights

JamesKitson — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:26:14 GMT

I have a draft of new Hub documentation that will be published soon but this is the relevant part. The answer depends on the OS selected.

For Debian based ones we also read some data from /proc/stat and /proc/meminfo.

It's designed to not need anything that would require elevated permissions in a 'default' install.

Debian Based Linux (Generic Linux)

vmstat
w
df
cat
top
pgrep
iostat
ip or netstat
- older OSs don't have required stats in 'ip' command and will 'fall back' to netstat

Solaris

vmstat
w
df
netstat
ps
grep
prstat
kstat
mpstat
iostat
swap
prtconf

AIX

vmstat
w
df
netstat
ps
grep
svmon
mpstat
iostat

FreeBSD

vmstat
w
df
netstat
ps
top
grep
iostat

HP-UX

vmstat
w
df
netstat
ps
grep
swapinfo
top
sar

Re: Remote Linux Monitoring - User rights

Theodore_x86 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:33:28 GMT

Thank you very much!

Re: Remote Linux Monitoring - User rights

AntonioSousa — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:51:18 GMT

@JamesKitson,

Great stuff! Looking for support of AIX 5.3 (very old). Do you know if it works?

Re: Remote Linux Monitoring - User rights

DanielS — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:31:48 GMT

Great work @JamesKitson I have several clients asking for this.

Re: Remote Linux Monitoring - User rights

JamesKitson — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 17:14:05 GMT

We can't test every version of every distro, but it's designed so that it shouldn't matter unless some of these basic commands are missing. If there does seem to be an issue with an older one, a ticket can be opened and we can investigate if adding support is feasible.

Re: Remote Linux Monitoring - User rights

JamesKitson — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 17:15:19 GMT

FYI there's a new version available now and as part of this update we added this information to the hub page (under troubleshooting): https://www.dynatrace.com/hub/detail/remote-linux-monitoring