Disk monitoring

We had one of our postgres database servers go offline this morning since its data partition got 100% full. Xymon didn't alert us since the xymon client was running as user xymon and didn't have permission to the postgres data directory (i.e. df gave a permission denied). I worked around it by changing the client on this server to run as root rather than xymon but is there a better way to give the client privileged access to do its checks than running the client as root?


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Michael Schultheiss, RHCSA, RHCE   OIT Administration
Sr. Unix Systems Engineer          Ivy Tech Community College
user-4a65965dd360@xymon.invalid