• Forums
    • Public Forums
      • Community Connect
      • Dynatrace
        • Dynatrace Open Q&A
      • Application Monitoring & UEM
        • AppMon & UEM Open Q&A
      • Network Application Monitoring
        • NAM Open Q&A
  • Home /
  • Public Forums /
  • Application Monitoring & UEM /
  • AppMon & UEM Open Q&A /
avatar image
Question by Atos A. · Aug 27, 2015 at 10:00 AM ·

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?

Comment

People who like this

0 Show 0
10 |2000000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded
  • Viewable by all users
  • Viewable by moderators
  • Viewable by moderators and the original poster
  • Advanced visibility
Toggle Comment visibility. Current Visibility: Viewable by all users

Up to 10 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 50.0 MiB each and 250.0 MiB total.

1 Reply

  • Sort: 
  • Most voted
  • Newest
  • Oldest
avatar image
Best Answer

Answer by Florent D. · Aug 28, 2015 at 10:47 AM

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

Comment

People who like this

0 Show 2 · Share
10 |2000000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded
  • Viewable by all users
  • Viewable by moderators
  • Viewable by moderators and the original poster
  • Advanced visibility
Toggle Comment visibility. Current Visibility: Viewable by all users

Up to 10 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 50.0 MiB each and 250.0 MiB total.

avatar image Atos A. · Aug 28, 2015 at 02:39 PM 0
Share

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

avatar image Florent D. Atos A. · Sep 01, 2015 at 07:56 AM 0
Share

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

How to get started

First steps in the forum
Read Community User Guide
Best practices of using forum

NAM 2019 SP5 is available


Check the RHEL support added in the latest NAM service pack.

Learn more

LIVE WEBINAR

"Performance Clinic - Monitoring as a Self Service with Dynatrace"


JANUARY 15, 3:00 PM GMT / 10:00 AM ET

Register here

Follow this Question

Answers Answers and Comments

6 People are following this question.

avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image

Forum Tags

dotnet mobile monitoring load iis 6.5 kubernetes mainframe rest api dashboard framework 7.0 appmon 7 health monitoring adk log monitoring services auto-detection uem webserver test automation license web performance monitoring ios nam probe collector migration mq web services knowledge sharing reports window java hybris javascript appmon sensors good to know extensions search 6.3+ server documentation easytravel web dashboard kibana system profile purelytics docker splunk 6.1 process groups account 7.2 rest dynatrace saas spa guardian appmon administration production user actions postgresql upgrade oneagent measures security Dynatrace Managed transactionflow technologies diagnostics user session monitoring unique users continuous delivery sharing configuration alerting NGINX splitting business transaction client 6.3 installation database scheduler apache mobileapp RUM php dashlet azure purepath agent 7.1 appmonsaas messagebroker nodejs 6.2 android sensor performance warehouse
  • Forums
  • Public Forums
    • Community Connect
    • Dynatrace
      • Dynatrace Open Q&A
    • Application Monitoring & UEM
      • AppMon & UEM Open Q&A
    • Network Application Monitoring
      • NAM Open Q&A