To fully automate the monitoring of your operating systems, processes, and network interfaces, Dynatrace requires privileged access to your operating system during both installation and operation.
OneAgent is tested extensively to ensure that it has minimal performance impact on your system and conforms to the highest security standards.
OneAgent installer requires admin privileges to:
/etc/rc.shutdownmkitab commandThe OneAgent requires admin privileges to:
oneagentkmod kernel extension to enable automatic injection into processesoneagentkmod kernel extension is loaded upon OneAgent service startup./etc/rc.shutdown and /etc/inittab have an entry added for oneagent service.The OneAgents installer adds the following files to your system:
/opt/dynatrace/oneagent. Note that you can change the location using INSTALL_PATH parameter.OneAgent adds the following files to your system:
/var/lib/dynatrace/oneagent/runtime./var/lib/dynatrace/oneagent/config./var/lib/dynatrace/oneagent/datastorage. Note that you can change the location of large runtime data using the DATA_STORAGE parameter.OneAgent downloads certain system logs so that Dynatrace can diagnose issues that may be caused by conditions in your environment. Most often such issues are related to deep monitoring or installations run as automatic updates. System logs downloaded by OneAgent on AIX are:
/etc/security/limits/var/adm/ras/errlog/var/log/kern/var/log/syslogTo revoke access to system logs, use the oneagentctl command with the --set-system-logs-access-enabled parameter set to false.
For more information, see OneAgent configuration via command-line interface
The OneAgent directory structure contains globally writable directories (1777 permissions). Changing these permissions by users is not supported.
Such permissions on the selected set of directories are necessary for successful OneAgent injection into the processes on the monitored hosts. When OneAgent injects into a process, the code module responsible for injection runs in the context of the original injected process. Consequently, the users under which these processes are run need to be permitted to write into the OneAgent directory structure, which is the reason for the global write permissions that allow that.
Similarly, certain log files require global write permissions (666) to allow applications running under various users to write to them.
We're aware that global read and write permissions on OneAgent directories get flagged by security scan heuristics, but we can assure you that they're fully secure.
1777). Only the file's owner, the directory's owner, or the root user can modify the files in the directory. This is standard practice that makes the permissions more robust. It's also used for the /tmp directory to prevent ordinary users from deleting or moving other users' files.