Required Permissions to Run a Local Oracle Inventory Scan Via a Remote Execution Task Against Lunix/Unix Devices

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RayVentory Scan Engine > 12.6 u4 > User Guide > Appendix I: Prerequisites Inventory Methods > Remote Execution Inventory for Oracle 

Required Permissions to Run a Local Oracle Inventory Scan Via a Remote Execution Task Against Lunix/Unix Devices

Services Used from Remote

We need rights to the following services from remote machines:

SSH (Login)

SCP (Login/use)

 

Access on the System

Read access on the whole filesystem*

Read/Write/Execute on home directory

o/home/<UserName>

 

*Permission to the whole filesystem is required in case that the user is not allowed to execute java via sudo. This is also required in case that the user not allowed to execute ‘find’ via sudo and Java is not available to the scanning user.

 

Read Access to All Configuration Files

/etc/oratrab

*/listener.ora

*/tnsnames.ora

 

SUDO Rights for Oracle Inventory

Execute Java (in order to run ORATRACK which searches for Oracle configuration files) via sudo, without restrictions to the command line arguments and no password prompt:

sudo cmod 755 ./oratrack*.jar

sudo java -jar oratrack*.jar

 

The execution of Java is not limited to a single version. If several versions of Java are installed, all Java versions will have to be executed.

 

Execute ‘find’ (to search for the available Java Runtime Environments) via sudo, without restrictions to the command line arguments and no password prompt:

sudo find

 

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Note:

Please replace {UserName} with the user for RayVentory.