This article describes how to bind Privilege Manager communications to a single IP Address when multiple network interface cards (NICs) are configured
STATUS:
Enhancement request is now available in Privilege Manager for Unix Version 5.5.2 (042) and up
RESOLUTION:
The "thishost" setting in the pm.settings file can now be used to bind client request's to a specific hostname or IP address. If "thishost _" is used, requests will bind to the IP address of the client's "uname -n" hostname.
For client hosts with multiple network interfaces, this will result in static values for the submithostip and submithost variable's when requests are received on the master
1 - Edit the /etc/opt/quest/qpm4u/pm.settings file and add one of the three examples below.
Replace the data and < > with relevant data for your environment.
EXAMPLE 1: (specifying a hostname)
thishost <myhostname.example.com>
EXAMPLE 2: (specifying an IP address)
thishost <10.0.0.27>
EXAMPLE 3: (generic form)
thishost _
In Privilege Manager for Sudo, If the pm.settings file does not exist, pmjoin_plugin will create it. You can either create the pm.settings file and put the thishost setting as the only entry, or you can run use the -d option to pmjoin_plugin to set the setting:
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