Re: check_postgresql.pl for zabbix

[Matheus de Oliveira <matioli.matheus@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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Matheus de Oliveira

Bacharelado em Ciências de Computação
Laboratório de Computação de Alto Desempenho - LCAD
Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação - ICMC

Universidade de São Paulo - USP

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Bèrto ëd Sèra <berto.d.sera@xxxxxxxxx> 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="" 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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