Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> In many of the more secure environments I've worked in (finance,
> defense), there is *no* access to the database server beyond what
> comes out of port 5432 without getting a whole separate team of
> people involved. If the DBA can write a simple monitoring program
> themselves that presents data via the one port that is exposed,
> that makes life easier for them.
Right, we don't want to give the monitoring software an OS login for
the database servers, for security reasons.
-Kevin