Using the privilege control software with agentless discovery of UNIX hosts
InfoScale Operations Manager requires a user account to perform agentless discovery of a remote UNIX host. The minimum requirement is a non-root user account. However, there are a few instances where InfoScale Operations Manager requires a root user account.
To discover that information, you can configure InfoScale Operations Manager to use one of the following:
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A root user account.
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A non-root user account and use privilege control software to grant that user the ability to run specific commands.
InfoScale Operations Manager supports the following privilege control software with agentless discovery:
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PowerBroker
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Privilege Manager for UNIX
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Sudo
Table: Using privilege control software with agentless discovery of UNIX hosts identifies how you can use privilege control software with agentless discovery.
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Table: Using privilege control software with agentless discovery of UNIX hosts
| Step | Action |
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| 1 | Install the privilege control software on the remote host that you want to discover. |
| 2 | Modify the configuration file for the privilege control software as follows\: |
| - Add the user name that you want to use for agentless discovery. | |
| - Add the commands that you want to allow the user to run. | |
| - Ensure that the software does not require a TTY session for commands to succeed. | |
| - Ensure that the software does not require a password when running a command. | |
| - Ensure that the user has the privilege to kill the commands that are initiated with the privilege control software. InfoScale recommends this privilege because it gives the non-root user the ability to kill any commands that hang when run through the privilege control software. | |
| 3 | Configure agentless discovery of hosts. |
| See Adding the managed hosts to Management Server using an agent configuration . |
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