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kb75: Account privileges for monitoring Unix


By Chris - Heroix - Posted on 16 November 2009

When you add the Unix application, the account that you specify must have privilege to execute the following on the monitored computer:
All Platforms:

  • iostat
  • ps
  • df

Platform Specific:

  • AIX
    vmstat, lsattr, lsps, netstat
  • HP-UX
    vmstat, swapinfo, netstat, "grep Physical /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log"

    ***Note:If using a non-root account, verify it has execute privileges for /usr/sbin/swapinfo ***

  • Linux
    sar, free, ifconfig
  • Solaris
    sar, prtconf, vmstat, swap, netstat