Re: Hardware Alerts

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:15 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Hardware Alerts

This is an internal auditor and high availability is a high
priority to
our management.


[snip]


More, we manage our production environment by sending emails about
exception events. We feel like it works well for us. Extending that to
hardware management is a small step.

Using what? Will it respond to a SNMP trap to send an email?


Right now, we feel that the known risks associated with
interconnecting
these machines to the company LAN outweigh the potential benefit. But
this is all a living process and ya just gotta keep up to remain
competitive.

If this is a worry, put all the sensitive hardware on one physical LAN
segment. Connect that LAN segment to the rest of your internal LAN via a
firewall/router. And use VLAN support. That will isolate your sensitive
hardware from the "unwashed masses" on your LAN. The firewall can be
configured to only allow outgoing SNMP connections to your SNMP server
which will do the actual email paging. The firewall can stop ALL
incoming connection requests / pings / whatever. This is about as secure
as I can imagine anything being, short of powering it down.


My task is to explore the issue and present management with options.

And thanks for all the replies so far!! Keep 'em coming.


--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
Administrative Services Group
Information Technology

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