Re: [pcp] proc pmda question

[Chandana De Silva <chandana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Nathan, 
Thanks for your response. Unfortunately that did not work. I guess I will have to go down the SSL (or SASL) path. Pity that SASL can't use SSH pub key.

Regards
Chandana


On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 21:25 -0400, Nathan Scott wrote:
> Hi Chandana,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > I have a host running the proc pmda. My issue is that proc.psinfo data is not
> > visible from outside the localhost, even if the access controls (see below)
> > allow fetch.
> > 
> > [ chandana@xxxxxxxxxx ~]$ pminfo -f -h dd1.dev.mel.mmd proc.nprocs
> > 
> > proc.nprocs
> >     value 98
> > [ chandana@xxxxxxxxxx ~]$ pminfo -f -h dd1.dev.mel.mmd proc.psinfo.rss
> > 
> > proc.psinfo.rss
> > Error: No permission to perform requested operation
>
> Try "-h local:" - the proc PMDA needs an authenticated connection for many of
> the metrics it exports (but not all, as we can see above).  By default, the
> inet connection established via "-h hostname" does not provide that (it can,
> if you setup SASL, SSL, etc).  The af_unix socket connection from "local:" or
> "unix:" *does* provide authentication by default, so the above will work via
> that connection style.
>
> cheers.
>
> --
> Nathan