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Some Alternative Stalker Configurations

Posted by arlene

Many tradeoffs can be made in system monitoring. The two most important variables you can tradeoff are CPU and network performance. If you run Stalker Manager and Agent software on each node, you can analyze the data on the systems where it is created. You will spend CPU cycles on each node performing the analysis, [...]

Audit Management continue…

Posted by arlene

The output from the query can be displayed, printed, mailed, or saved to a file. When saved to a file; the format can be either a text report or an audit event file that can be further reduced with a query. Queries may be formulated in advance and then stored as templates. Scheduled TB queries [...]

Audit Management

Posted by arlene

Configuring and maintaining audit logs on UNIX systems is no trivial matter. A number of different parameters need to be properly set. Expertise in UNIX audit administration is not a widely available skill. Furthermore, the management concepts and tasks across different UNIX systems differ widely. For example, the AIX audit subsystem provides a panic capability. [...]

System Security Scanner

Posted by arlene

The important features of S3 to examine are its alternative configurations, its reporting capabilities, and the set of vulnerabilities it handles.

 Local and Remote Scan Configurations

S3 can be run on a single node to scan for and report on security weaknesses on that node. Each system in the network that requires scanning must be installed with [...]

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