RVP200588: Setting an User as privileged or super User – Raynet Support Panel

Why is this important and how is this done:

To perform an inventory with RIU the target system and authentication need to be provided. This means that the user which is being used needs to be marked as a privileged user. This can be achieved by setting the privileged property in the RayVentory Portal Credential Store. The following steps will guide you through the neccessariry steps:

Open your RayVentory Portal
Click on the Devices + Services tile
Open the Credential Store Tab
Click on the '+' Button to open the new Credential Wizard
Click on the SSH credentials tile and confirm with the 'Next >' Button
Enter the credential name and confirm with the 'Next >' Button
Here you will find 2 checkboxes to set the super user or privileged flag.

An inventory is created from data gathered by running different commands on the target system. Some of these commands require special permissions. RVP/RIU uses special commands such as sudo, pbrun, priv, etc. to execute commands that require elevated permissions/privileges. No privilege elevation methods (such as sudo,priv,pbrun etc.) will be used if a user was not marked as privileged. Missing the required permissions to run certain commands, may result in incomplete inventory data. In contrast to this, should the given user have extensive rights (e.g. root) it is required to be marked as a super user in order to avoid unnecessary use of privilege elevation methods.