Privilege Manager for Unix 7.1.1 - Administration Guide

Removing the server package

To remove the server package

1. Run the package uninstall command for your operating system.

   For example, to remove the qpm-server package on a 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system, run:

   # rpm --erase qpm-server

2. To complete the removal of the qpm-server package, delete:
   • pmpolicy service user
   • pmpolicy group
   • pmlog group
   • policy repository directories in /etc/opt/quest/qpm4u/

Removing the PM Agent package

To remove the agent package

1. Run the package uninstall command for your operating system.

   For example, to remove the qpm-agent package on a 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system, run:

   # rpm --erase qpm-agent

System Administration

Privilege Manager for Unix provides command line utilities to help you manage your policy servers. They can be used to check the status of your policy servers, edit the policy, or to simply report the information.

Reporting basic policy server configuration information

To report basic information about the configuration of a policy server

1. From the command line, enter:

   # pmsrvinfo

   This command returns output similar to this:

   Policy Server Configuration:
   ----------------------------
   Privilege Manager for Unix version            : 7.1.1.0 (nnn)
   Listening port for pmmasterd daemon  : 12345
   Comms failover method                : random
   Comms timeout(in seconds)            : 10
   Policy type in use                   : pmpolicy
   Group ownership of logs              : pmlog
   Group ownership of policy repository : pmpolicy
   Policy server type                   : primary
   Primary policy server for this group : myhost.example.com
   Group name for this group            : MyPolicyGroup
   Location of the repository           : file:
                              ////var/opt/quest/qpm4u/.qpm4u/.repository/sudo_repos/trunk
   Hosts in the group                   : myhost.example.com