Configuring the core components to run as root

On UNIX, if you installed Network Manager as a non-root user, you must perform additional configuration to run the core components as the root user.

Before you begin

The Network Manager Web applications must always be run as the user who installed the product.

About this task

You must run a script that updates file permissions to ensure that the root user has access to all necessary files.

If you installed Network Manager as the root user, you do not need to run the scripts below, but you do need to run the setup_run_storm_as_non_root.sh script as the root user to enable the historical polling data processes to run.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the server where the Network Manager core components are installed. Log in as the root user.
  2. Run only one of the following scripts from the $NCHOME/precision/scripts/ directory:
    • Run setup_run_as_root.sh if the root user will run Network Manager processes.
    • Run setup_run_as_setuid_root.sh if a non-root user will run Network Manager processes.
    • Linux:Run setup_run_as_capabilities.sh on Linux platforms only, if you can not run binary files with a UID of root for security reasons, and a non-root user will run Network Manager processes.