Hello Steve,
Thanks! If I understand my brief skim of the documentation it
seems that I can override Ganglia's metrics and supply my own which would
not require root access. I do need to run this on solaris servers.
thanks again for the quick response. adil
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Steven Wagner wrote:
> Adil Hasan wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I quickly took a look at Ganglia and it looks like a nice tool for
> > monitoring some of our servers. However, I'd like to be able to run as a
> > non root user. Is it possible to do this? Or, is there another tool that
> > would be better suited for non-root users?
> > thanks, adil
>
> The short answer: Yes.
>
> Here's some interesting tidbits from /etc/gmond.conf:
>
>
> # If you don't want gmond to setuid, set this to "on"
> # default: off
> # no_setuid on
> #
> # Which user should gmond run as?
> # default: nobody
> # setuid nobody
>
>
> Note that the specific implementation of the monitoring core on your
> platform may require root access to read some metrics properly (I'm
> thinking specifically of Solaris but I'm not sure).
>
> But I just tested this on Linux and the monitoring core's running fine as
> myself...
>
>
