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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Agent
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 10, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Provide support to run the agent as non-root

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's directory but is isolated within that directory.

This provides separation away from root access to the execution context of the various executed processes. So, when the Instana agent is installed and running as root, the agent does not own or has access to the sandbox. In terms of Websphere, we were informed we had to load the Instana-java-agent

https://artifact-public.instana.io/artifactory/shared/com/instana/instana-javaagent/

So in this case, there is a supported method to bridge into an operational sandbox.

Being able to deploy and execute the Instana agent within a sandbox, and also be able to configure other operational sandboxes to allow the instana agent to be able to perform the APM agent role, is possible and in the case of WebSphere, provided and supported.

The Instana Agent should be able to be ran within a non-root container/directory and then be able to be granted or to have a communication component installed within the application container to be able to publish the application and container performance.


Idea priority High

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