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<p class=MsoNormal>All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I don't know if this quirk is peculiar to Solaris or is the
same on other flavours of UNIX, but if you are not the root user and you run
the ifconfig(1m) command it does not show the MAC address assigned to the
interfaces. Here is what I see in Xymon's client data view for one host:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'>[ifconfig]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'>lo0:
flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232
index 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask
ff000000 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'>ce0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu
1500 index 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'> inet 10.5.2.46 netmask
ffffffe0 broadcast 10.5.2.63<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>If I login as root and run the command I see:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>lo0:
flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232
index 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ce0:
flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
inet 10.5.2.46 netmask ffffffe0 broadcast 10.5.2.63<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
ether 0:3:ba:96:e6:4f<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I am currently writing a script to retrieve information from
the stored client data and to populate a database with that info. In this
manner when I install Xymon on a new server the configuration information is
automatically updated in my server database. The question is: How can I get the
MAC address? By default the Xymon client is installed and run under the hobbit
user ID. Is there any way I can configure the hobbitclient-sunos.sh script to
run as root? I guess I could run the ifconfig command using sudo and
configure sudo so that it doesn't require a password, but is there any other/better/easier/more
elegant ways of doing this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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