Hi Steven. I spent some time digging through man pages and I have now eliminated the need for kvm in solaris.c (no more root permissions!! Our security experts can breathe a sigh of relief!!) I figured out how to get the statistics from kstat and modified solaris.c accordingly . I¹ll send you my solaris.c once I¹ve cleaned it up and ran a few more tests.
I tried it on Solaris 5.9 but I will try it on 5.8 too. ----- Yemi On 9/29/03 9:31 AM, "steven wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adeyemi Adesanya wrote: >> > Hi There. >> > >> > I spent some time digging through the archives but I am unable to find a >> way >> > of running gmond as a non-root user on Solaris. Is this out of the question >> > or is there some way to patch the code? All of our critical servers run >> > Solaris, that¹s where the real action is and that what I'd like to monitor. > > Unfortunately, not all of the information that the Solaris monitoring > core collects can be gathered through a warm and fuzzy API (as far as I > could tell, anyway). Many metrics had to be gathered by peeking at the > kernel memory and symbol table, both of which require superuser permissions. > > It's entirely possible that the kstat API has been extended (or that I > just plain didn't RTFM thoroughly enough) and that all of these calls > can be handled that way. In which case, the first person to point this > out volunteers to rewrite all my spaghetti solaris.c code. :) > > Good luck! >
