How do I configure Linux OS SSH monitoring?

In Entuity, Linux OS monitoring requires SSH credentials for a user to log in to each Linux server being monitored. For security reasons, it is recommended that this be a non-root user.

The following are the specific requirements of this OS monitoring user account to enable Linux OS polling:

• user can log in with SSH. The user does not need a service/system account - these do not have a login shell and so cannot log in with SSH remotely.
• user's default login shell is a bourne-type (sh, bash, and so on). Entuity's Linux OS SSH monitoring does not work for OSes using a c-type shell (csh, tcsh, and so on).
• user's account must be able to run the following commands:
  • getconf
  • df
  • lspci
  • ip addr
  • ps
  • systemctl
• user's account must have access to the following directories:
  • /etc
  • /proc
  • /sys