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Workspace Instana
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Created on Jul 19, 2023

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Full support for sensors to run under a non-root account

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

Regarding IBM APM today:

- For various company support and security reasons, we have all the agents running under a non-root account on AIX and Linux hosts with limited sudo setup required.  Limited sudo setup in the sense where only dedicated full paths are allowed to run as a different account.

This 'partial sudo setup required' also is supported within the IBM environment.

Regarding Instana today:

- We seem to be able to get AIX to work regarding just the Tuxedo sensor with limited sudo permissions.  The OS metrics don't need any sudo setup.

- Per documentation, Linux seems to require full root sudo permissions just to get the OS metrics.  Why if on AIX there is no issue?  We might be able to try to add some specific Instana paths as a sudo config as a potential workaround.

Request:  

This 'partial sudo setup required' will be supported in the IBM environment for both types of hosts.

 

Idea priority High

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