Re: [pcp] proc pmda access control changes

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martins,

----- Original Message -----
> Hello,
> 
>      Sorry to bring up an old thread, but we just ran into this issue
> when upgrading from 3.8.0 to 3.8.6.  We have an isolated cluster that we
> are not worried about restricting access to proc metrics.  We currently
> do remote logging that includes the proc pmda.  Was a backdoor way of
> doing this implemented?  If not, what is the suggested configuration to
> make collecting all proc metrics work again from a remote host?

No backdoor was added, but I think for secure/test environments like your
case we perhaps should not make this quite so difficult.  I've added in a
(-A, non-default) pmdaproc option to allow the checking to be switched off.

The alternative is a SASL2 setup for remote authentication, details here:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/pcp-gui.git/man/html/lab.auth.html

cheers.

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Nathan