Re: [pcp] Fetching proc data from a remote host

[Chandana De Silva <chandana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Mark,
Thanks for your reply.
The proc pmda is running as root.

$ ps aux | grep proc
root     15828  0.0  0.3  42416  1764 ?        S    09:52   0:01 
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/proc/pmdaproc -d 3

And, I can view the data on the host.
$ pminfo -f proc.psinfo.vsize 

proc.psinfo.vsize
    inst [1 or "000001 init [3]"] value 10352
    inst [2 or "000002 (migration/0)"] value 0
    inst [3 or "000003 (ksoftirqd/0)"] value 0

What I can't do is view this from another machine (which is running pmlogger). 





On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 12:03 +1100, Mark Goodwin wrote:
> most likely pmdaproc on the remote host is running as the pcp user,
> which doesn't have access to all of the /proc/<pid>/... data for users
> other than pcp. The proc.nprocs metric is extracted from /proc/stat,
> which doesn't have such access restrictions (world readable).