Re: check_postgresql.pl for zabbix

Hi Matheus,

thanks but, as said before "there is not enough information for us to be
sure that we can add read permission to the group without impact"... any
other way to extract the same info?

Bèrto

On 4 April 2012 12:24, Matheus de Oliveira <matioli(dot)matheus(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Give read permissions to the group on the data directory and archives:
>
> chmod g+r -R /var/lib/pgsql/data
>
> I think just that will solve the problem, as you said that the agent is
> already been executed with postgres group.
>
> Regards,
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> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Bèrto ëd Sèra <berto(dot)d(dot)sera(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm implementing a PG monitoring system on zabbix, using
>> http://bucardo.org/wiki/Check_postgres
>>
>> Everything's fine, however I cannot seem to use action=checkpoint without
>> some intervention on permissions.
>> See http://bucardo.org/check_postgres/check_postgres.pl.html#checkpoint
>>
>> The data directory is
>> drwx------+ 11 postgres postgres 4096 Apr 2 13:37 /var/lib/pgsql/data
>>
>> so putting zabbix in the postgres group won't have any effect, and there
>> is not enough information for us to be sure that we can add read permission
>> to the group without impact, once the template I'm making is ported to a
>> large number of boxes, some of which may have local policies we are not
>> aware of.
>>
>> I'm left with the option of giving the zabbix agent daemon a limited sudo
>> right, which I quite do not like because it will need to be replicated on
>> all single boxes... is anyone aware of an alternative solution?
>>
>> Cheerio
>> Bèrto
>>
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