[Ganglia-general] Running as non-root on Solaris

[Adesanya, Adeyemi]

Hi Steven.

Thanks for the pointer. I managed to disable/strip the built-in solaris metrics and now gmond runs in non-root!!

----
Yemi


> -----Original Message-----
> From: steven wagner [mailto:swagner at ilm.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:05 AM
> To: Adesanya, Adeyemi
> Cc: 'ganglia-general at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Running as non-root on Solaris
> 
> 
> Sure, there's some metric stub code you can copy from in the 
> gmond/machines directory.  I think cygwin.c is still mostly returning 
> dummy values for metrics ( ... anyone?), you could use that as a 
> template for the functions you'll be disabling.
> 
> Sorry I can't offer you any more direct assistance, but I 
> don't really 
> have any cycles to spare for Solaris Ganglia 2.x development.
> 
> Happy hacking :)
> 
> Adesanya, Adeyemi wrote:
> > Hi Steve.
> > 
> > Thanks for responding. Perhaps an alternative may be switches to 
> > disable those metrics that require gmond to run as root?
> > 
> > ----
> > Yemi
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: steven wagner [mailto:swagner at ilm.com]
> >>Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:32 AM
> >>To: Adesanya, Adeyemi
> >>Cc: ganglia-general at lists.sourceforge.net
> >>Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Running as non-root on Solaris
> >>
> >>
> >>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!
> >>
> 
> 


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