Running commands as Root user

[sworded]

I would like an Item to run commands as the root user

Item:
system.run[cat /var/log/messages]

Right now, commands are being ran as the zabbix user and I get permission denied a lot. Is it possible for system.run to run as root?

[neilb]

you have a choice i believe of running the agent as either zabbix or root. by default it's user zabbix, or turn on the parameter "Allowroot"


the alternative is to add the command to /etc/sudoers and sudo accordingly either with userparameters or within a local (to the agent) shell script.

N.