8 years ago
Read only agent / collector
I know I've brought this up before, but I'd like to bring it up again. LM's requirement that collectors run as local admins (or system) is a GAPING security hole in your product. No amount of cer...
While I appreciate the security points raised by Eric, I would have to reconsider LogicMonitor if I had to go back to installing maintaining agents across our estate.
In my estate, we use a dedicated account for WMI for Windows, Linux and network monitored via SNMP and ESX using dedicated account for ESX. For custom data sources and event sources for applications and databases use we dedicated accounts also. Our production, dev & test VLANs and DMZ are firewalled.