dynatrace server deamons account
The host deamon or web deamon, can they use a standard user account in unix's or do they need some extra privileges?
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Hi
I'm assuming that what you are calling the host deamon is the host monitoring agent and that the web daemon is the master web server agent.
They don't need special accounts but for the web server agent I would recommend using the same account as your web server process (apache?). They have to be able to share files so using the same account would help.
For the required file privileges have a look here https://community.dynatrace.com/community/display/...
Regards
Flo
Florence,
Thanks for your response, I was also wandering about the system information the agents collect. I presume the process needs to excess /proc or something like that.
As a second question can you turn off the "host monitoring agent" functionality in the web server agent and other agents on the server. example: the server departement has its own tooling for monitoring and does not want the application/business guys using the existing dynatrace to view system info. (this is a real scenario, not made up (-;)
KR Henk Stobbe
Hi
sorry for the late reply, we had an extended weekend in the UK.
I don't believe that you can turn off CPU/memory reporting inside the agent. This would go against our purestack approach where you can link application and hardware issues together.
About your first question, I think that as long as the process can run, it should be able to get "top" like information from the OS so yet again it shouldn't need any special privileges.
Flo
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