RE: [TME 10] AIX Premium Agent - Non-root Install

K Nickelson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.tivoli.general
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Were you guys aware that the functionality of the AIX premium Agent is being merged into the UX agent? Heard this at a user group this year. Some of the functionality was merged as of ITM 6.2.3 FP1 and I believe they indicated that the plan is to merge the all of the functionality in 2013. The premium agent will still work; but will gradually be deprecaited and new functionality will be added in the UX. Sounds like that is the plan for the UL (ITM log Agent replaces) and the UM (Agent Builder) - don't recall the timeframes on those, however.






 
 
 
 


Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:12:07 -0400
Subject: Re: [TME10] [TME 10] AIX Premium Agent - Non-root Install
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No, we did not give the userid any special priviledges, but now that I am thinking more about it, I think we may have had problems running the px agent as a non-root user on AIX 5.3.  On AIX 6.1, it appears to work as expected. 

Loren Cain
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Manish A. Parikh <[email protected]> wrote:

Loren, 
Did you have to give that userid specific sudo privileges or anything? What about commands it executes and libraries it accesses to do its job?
 Thank you,
 V/r,
 Manish A. Parikh
 From: Loren Cain [mailto:[email protected]] 

Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 3:21 PM
To: [email protected]; Discussion list for Tivoli product and Tivoli Ready products.

Subject: Re: [TME10] [TME 10] AIX Premium Agent - Non-root Install I have been running the 6.2.2 px agents as a non-root user for about a year and a half with no apparent problems. I think I recall reading somewhere, in a README file or technote maybe, that the root requirement was no longer necessary.
 Loren CainOn Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Manish A. Parikh <[email protected]> wrote:
I know IBM documentation says: “The agent is expected to be installed, configured, and started under the root user ID.”
 http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v15r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itm.doc_6.2.2%2Fpaix62116.htm&path=3_3_3_6_0_3_2
 Has anyone tried a non-root install? Is it even possible? I don’t always believe everything ‘BigBlue’ says J
 Thanks in advance for feedback 
Thank you, V/r,
 Manish A. ParikhESM ConsultantROMA IT, LLC 
 
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