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  3. Section X. Storage (Capacity)
  4. Configuration for EMC Isilon
  5. Configure Isilon sudo access
  6. Modify the Sudo configuration

Modify the Sudo configuration

Depending on your version of EMC Isilon, you may either run the isi_visudo command, or create a drop-in sudoers file in the correct directory to restrict the commands that a user can execute.

  1. Configure visudo to modify the sudoers file. The visudo will use the editor specified in the $EDITOR variable, or vi, by default.

    Specify your preferred editor. For example, to use nano as your editor, execute the following:

    # export EDITOR=nano
  2. Once your editor is configured, execute one of the following commands to edit the sudoers file.

    For OneFS versions lower than 9.1:

    # isi_visudo 
    # visudo -f /usr/local/etc/sudoers.d/aptare
    # isi_visudo
    # isi_visudo -f /etc/mcp/override/sudoers
  3. Add the following lines to the sudoers file, substituting the name of the user you created for <username>.

    <username> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/snmpbulkwalk, \
                  /usr/bin/isi, /usr/bin/isi_for_array, /usr/bin/isi_hw_status
  4. Save the sudoers file.

  5. If you have upgraded OneFS to version 9.1 or later, run these commands to using your user credentials to resume the data collection:

    # sudo isis version
    # isi version
    # sudo -A isi version

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