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Run Agent Service as normal user

This document describes to change the user account used by the openITCOCKPIT Monitoring Agent

Linux

First of all you need to stop the openITCOCKPIT Monitoring Agent. 

systemctl stop openitcockpit-agent.service

Now edit the Systemd service definition 

systemctl edit --full openitcockpit-agent.service

Replace the root user with a non-privileged user of your choice like monitoring for example.

Then adjust the permissions on the agent folders and restart the agent

chown -R monitoring: /etc/openitcockpit-agent/
chown -R monitoring: /var/log/openitcockpit-agent/

systemctl start openitcockpit-agent.service

Windows

Folder Permissions

  1. Open File Explorer
  2. Change to C:\Program Files\
  3. right click on folder it-novum
  4. Go to Properties -> Security -> Advanced
  5. Change Owner to the user which should run the Agent Services

Perflib Permissions

To be able to access Performance Values, you need to add the user which should run the Agent Service into the Group "Performance Monitor Users"

Configuration of Windows Service

  1. Open Windows Services
  2. right click on the openITCOCKPIT Agent service
  3. Go to Properties -> Log On
  4. Change user to the user which should run the Agent Services

Finally restart the Agent Service