Secure network

[Penny Keeffe]

Actually that is the exact piece of information I
needed!!  You rock!  Thanks!!


--- Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Penny Keeffe wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > (and the grandparent post wasn't specific,
> > > either - just 'how secure is Nagios?')
> > 
> > I would love to be more specific but alas I
> cannot.  I
> > basically need to know this:  while monitoring a
> > secure network how accessible is it from the
> outside. 
> > I really wish I could be more specific I know it
> would
> > help you guys out with what I am asking.  Ask me
> > questions if you can think of any and if I can I
> will
> > answer them.
> > 
> 
> Nagios is a monitoring tool and needs some level of
> administrative access 
> to the servers it is supposed to monitor - specially
> if local checks are 
> needed for things like cpu.mem/proc.
> 
> If this is a secure island and everybody on the
> island is trustworthy and 
> Nagios is on/in the island then your perimeter
> protection should protect 
> Nagios just like any other application.  Nagios will
> only contact servers 
> and services it is configured to - no auto-discovery
> to worry about.
> 
> If Nagios is outside the island and needs to monitor
> status inside the 
> island - you will probably want a bastion proxy with
> a secure tunnel on 
> the island.
> 
> Again lack of specifics is like bilding security on
> a house of cards...
> 
> -- 
> 
> -sg
> 


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