Installing robot with sudo give Nimsoft folder ownership to user rather than root

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

I noticed that the ownership ( user and group) of the “Nimsoft” directory and its subdirectories is being set to my username and group, which is not the intended behaviour.

When running the rpm with a non-root user, evelvating as root via sudo, the installer assigns ownership based on the user. 

Is this expected? 

Environment

• DX UIM 23.4.*
• Linux / UNIX

Cause

Working as Desgined

Resolution

Robot v9.38 or later admits Linux robot deployments for non-root users. 

When you install the DX UIM robot on Linux using a non-root user that was previously added as sudoer, so using the rpm as the non-root elevated to root via sudo, it is expected the ownership of the Nimsoft folder is given to the non-root user as ownership.

This is how the implementation for the non-root feature for robot installation is designed. 

The reason for this is If the ownership remains with the root user, the non-root user can't perform write operations on the Nimsoft files (like probe cfg, logs, etc,) which is required for monitoring the devices.

Additional Information

Related Documents and KBs:

KB: Clarifications on Migrating Robot from Non-Root user to Root User on Linux

KB: Uninstall a Linux / Unix Robot in DX UIM

Techdocs: Install a Robot As a Non-Root User on Linux